Police and federal officials stepped up surveillance at Pastor Terry Jones' Dove World Outreach Center on Thursday as concern grew for safety ...

Norfolk Southern Corp. on Thursday ran its first train loaded with double-stacked cargo containers through some of the most rugged parts of the ...

Hundreds of residents evacuated by a wildfire that has destroyed at least 169 houses in the Colorado foothills were being temporarily allowed ...

Pastor Terry Jones prepared to burn Qurans despite protests from the White House, fellow Christian evangelicals, veterans' groups and others ...

The intense heat this summer wasn't a mirage for the tens of millions of people in the eastern and southern USA.

The remnants of Tropical Storm Hermine trekked northward after forcing more than 100 high-water rescues in Texas, swamping streets, producing ...

Police Chief Charlie Beck was greeted by boos, whistles and chants of "justicia" by an angry Spanish-speaking crowd at a community meeting Wednesday ...

Traffic deaths in the USA are at a 60-year low despite a slight uptick in miles driven, the Department of Transportation says.

A perfect storm of failures caused the worst offshore oil spill in the nation's history, a report from BP concluded Wednesday.

The group of Muslims planning to build a 13-story Islamic center and mosque near ground zero appears plagued by divisions that raise questions ...

Arizona's education chief says the federal government has launched an investigation into whether the state discriminates against teachers who ...

John Kluge (KLOOG'-ee), who built an investment in a radio station into the Metromedia broadcasting empire, has died. He was 95.

A 10-year survey of emergency room departments notes the change, which experts say could be for reasons from less smoking to better diagnost ...

Authorities say they have rescued more than three dozen immigrants locked inside a boarded-up bedroom in a Southern California drop house.

A growing number of mosques has drawn opposition in places ranging from California to Manhattan. But the rise of the Muslim Community Center ...