Vice President Joe Biden told Iowa Democrats on Saturday that the Senate handed the president a big victory with its decision to move forward with debate on sweeping legislation to overhaul the nation's health care system.
Nov 21, 2009 | 9:25 pm
Authorities say four people were hurt when one of San Francisco's historic cable cars jarred to a sudden stop while traveling through downtown.
Nov 21, 2009 | 8:15 pm
Officials say a three-alarm fire has broken out on the boardwalk in Atlantic City.
Nov 21, 2009 | 8:05 pm
The Army psychiatrist charged with killing 13 people at Fort Hood will be confined until his military trial, initially staying in a hospital where he is recovering from gunshot wounds, his attorney said Saturday.
Nov 21, 2009 | 7:25 pm
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.
Nov 21, 2009 | 7:05 pm
Authorities arrested a Sacramento fisherman Saturday in connection to shooting a sea lion in the head.
Nov 21, 2009 | 6:00 pm
Democrats seal 60-vote majority to advance health care bill; Landrieu, Lincoln to vote 'yes'
Nov 21, 2009 | 5:10 pm
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.
Nov 21, 2009 | 3:55 pm
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.
Nov 21, 2009 | 2:40 pm
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.
Nov 21, 2009 | 1:55 pm
Every afternoon, seven days a week, Ed Epley has a 5 p.m. appointment with the war.
Nov 21, 2009 | 1:05 pm
Police found him sitting on the floor of his old apartment near a bucket of urine, still dressed in his hospital gown.
Nov 21, 2009 | 12:30 pm
The AAA auto club says a few more Americans will be traveling away from home for Thanksgiving this year, though most people are making their holiday treks by car.
Nov 21, 2009 | 12:10 pm
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.
Nov 21, 2009 | 11:40 am
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.
Nov 21, 2009 | 11:00 am
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.
Nov 21, 2009 | 9:45 am
Wide-eyed children around the world will be hearing from Santa's "elves" at the North Pole after all.
Nov 21, 2009 | 8:30 am
The gunman who carried out Saipan's most violent attack in recent memory ended his life on the same rocky cliffs where numerous Japanese leapt to their deaths to avoid capture by U.S. troops during World War II.
Nov 21, 2009 | 7:00 am
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.
Nov 21, 2009 | 3:55 am
Heavy rains was forecast to continue over the Gulf States on Saturday while the Pacific Northwest was expected to see scattered precipitation.
Nov 21, 2009 | 2:50 am
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