Update: Ex-Cop Barricaded in Cabin in Calif. Mountains
Updated: 4:26 PM Authorities say a fugitive ex-Los Angeles police officer is barricaded in a cabin in the Southern California mountains.
Updated: 4:26 PM Authorities say a fugitive ex-Los Angeles police officer is barricaded in a cabin in the Southern California mountains.
Posted: 6:43 AM Sen. Lindsey Graham is determined to get more answers about the deadly Sept. 11 attack against the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
Updated: 9:41 PM Pope Benedict XVI announced Monday that he would resign Feb. 28 -- the first pontiff to do so in nearly 600 years. The decision sets the stage for a conclave to elect a new pope before the end of March.
Posted: 12:30 AM The boards of American Airlines parent AMR Corp. and US Airways have pushed back meetings to consider final plans for their merger, Associated Press sources say.
Posted: 12:19 AM Police say hospitals have treated and released three of the four people wounded in a shooting on Bourbon Street during the countdown to Mardi Gras.
Posted: 7:25 AM The Boston fire department says an 11-year-old boy has died of carbon monoxide poisoning after being overcome as he sat in a running car to keep warm, while his father was shoveling snow to get the car out of a snow bank.
Posted: 7:17 AM A mother and daughter newspaper delivery team who were mistakenly shot by Los Angeles police hunting for a fugitive former cop will get a new pickup truck courtesy of the department.
Updated: 7:10 AM More than 345,000 homes and businesses remain without electricity following the massive snowstorm that swept across the Northeast, with most outages in hard-hit Massachusetts.
Posted: 7:03 AM New Orleans police have released a bystanders' video of what they say is an argument involving some people in a Bourbon Street throng raucously celebrating ahead of Mardi Gras when shots ring out, followed by screams.
Posted: 1:39 PM The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee says Republican demands for more financial information from Chuck Hagel is beyond the scope of what's been asked of previous defense secretary nominees
Posted: 7:34 AM A criminal investigation is under way after a hacker apparently accessed private photos and emails sent between members of the Bush family, including both former presidents.
Posted: 7:26 AM "He could be anywhere." That's the latest from a Southern California law enforcement official taking part in the wide search for a fired police officer suspected of killing three people, including a police officer and a former police official's daughter.
Posted: 8:31 AM A major winter storm heading toward New England could dump as much as 2 feet of snow on the region.
Posted: 9:59 AM The US Postal Service says it's going to stop delivering mail on Saturdays under a plan to try to save the struggling agency.
Posted: 7:30 AM The husband of a New York City woman found dead in Turkey says he hasn't had the strength to tell his children their mother is gone.
Posted: 7:26 AM Relatives of the 5-year-old boy freed when federal agents raided the underground bunker of a hostage-taker in Alabama say the youngster is relieved to be home and appears to be doing well.
Posted: 1:23 PM President Barack Obama says the Boy Scouts of America should open its membership to gays and lesbians when its national executive board discusses the issue this week.
Posted: 1:21 PM A man who threw a plastic beer bottle onto the track and shouted insults at Usain Bolt before the men's 100-meter final at the London Olympics has been sentenced to eight weeks of community service.
Posted: 7:29 AM Former Navy SEAL and expert sniper Chris Kyle was devoted to helping his fellow veterans navigate life after active duty.
Posted: 7:25 AM Scientists say they have found the 500-year-old remains of England's King Richard III under a parking lot in the city of Leicester.
Posted: 10:10 PM Officials at Salt Lake City's airport say an airport truck has crashed into the wing of a parked cargo plane.
Posted: 7:19 AM Former U.S. Sen. Bob Kerrey has stepped down as president emeritus of the New School, a university in New York City.
Posted: 7:41 AM More than three days after he allegedly shot a school bus driver dead, grabbed a kindergartner and slipped into an underground bunker, Jimmy Lee Dykes is showing no signs of turning himself over to police.
Updated: 6:46 PM Former Nebraska U.S. Senator Chuck Hagel is facing questions during his confirmation hearing as president Obama's choice for Secretary of Defense. First at Four caught up with New York Times reporter and Nebraska native Jeff Zeleny to talk more about national politics.
Posted: 7:56 AM The Senate is poised to permit the government to borrow hundreds of billions of dollars more to meet its obligations, putting off one Washington showdown even as others loom in coming weeks.