Calif. fisherman arrested in sea lion shooting
Authorities arrested a Sacramento fisherman Saturday in connection to shooting a sea lion in the head. (Updated: 11/21/09 7:06 PM )
Levin: More e-mails from Ft. Hood suspect possible
WASHINGTON - The government intercepted at least 18 e-mails between the alleged Fort Hood gunman and a radical Muslim cleric, and a key senator says there could be more communications that might have tipped off law enforcement or military officials. (Updated: 11/21/09 7:01 PM )
Historic health care bill clears Senate hurdle
A bruising debate on health care awaits the Senate after Thanksgiving now that the historic legislation has cleared a key hurdle over the opposition of Republicans eager to inflict a punishing defeat on President Barack Obama. (Updated: 11/22/09 9:41 AM )
5 Long Beach students arrested in alleged groping
Authorities say five male students have been arrested on suspicion of sexual battery after two ninth-grade girls were attacked at a Long Beach high school. (Updated: 11/22/09 1:26 AM )
Suspicious note and package found at Fort Benning
A Fort Benning spokesman says Army officials are investigating whether a suspicious note and package found at the west Georgia post is a viable threat. (Updated: 11/21/09 3:46 PM )
Ex-Air Force nurse acquitted of killing patients
A court-martial acquitted a former military nurse of murder Saturday after he was accused of giving lethal doses of painkillers to hasten the deaths of three terminally ill patients at the Air Force's largest hospital. (Updated: 11/22/09 2:46 AM )
A bad month in Afghanistan rippled across the US
Every afternoon, seven days a week, Ed Epley has a 5 p.m. appointment with the war. (Updated: 11/21/09 2:11 PM )
More Americans expected to travel for Thanksgiving
The number of Americans traveling away from home for Thanksgiving will be up only slightly this year from 2008, according to a report from the AAA auto club. (Updated: 11/22/09 8:01 AM )
EPA: Uranium from polluted mine in Nev. wells
Peggy Pauly lives in a robin-egg blue, two-story house not far from acres of onion fields that make the northern Nevada air smell sweet at harvest time. (Updated: 11/21/09 6:41 PM )
Historic health care bill nears key Senate vote
In a show of unity, Senate Democrats sealed a 60-vote majority needed to advance health care legislation Saturday ahead of an evening showdown with Republicans eager to doom the bill and inflict a punishing defeat on President Barack Obama. (Updated: 11/21/09 3:41 PM )
NC man gets life in prison for woman's fatal scare
A man will spend the rest of his life in prison after he was found guilty in what prosecutors said was a case of scaring a 79-year-old North Carolina grandmother to death. (Updated: 11/21/09 12:46 PM )
Mental health cases tax police, emergency workers
Police found him sitting on the floor of his old apartment near a bucket of urine, still dressed in his hospital gown. (Updated: 11/21/09 1:41 PM )
Report finds wide disparities in gifted education
When Liz Fitzgerald realized her son and daughter were forced to read books in math class while the other children caught up, she had them moved into gifted classes at their suburban Atlanta elementary school. (Updated: 11/21/09 12:11 PM )
AP reporter caught up in Stalin family's agony
Newly arrived in Moscow on his first foreign assignment, Associated Press correspondent George Krimsky sensed he had a sensational Cold War scoop on his hands and he pounced. (Updated: 11/22/09 1:21 AM )
Terror trials differ in civilian, military courts
The federal courts and military tribunals that will prosecute suspected terrorists vary sharply in their independence, public stature and use of evidence. But the Obama administration has so far offered no clear-cut rationale for how it chooses which system will try a detainee. (Updated: 11/21/09 9:21 PM )