Updated: 7:46 AM Kentucky State Police are investigating whether distracted driving caused a tractor-trailer to plow into an SUV carrying eight people on Saturday, killing six and possibly triggering a serious crash on the opposite side of the highway.
Posted: 7:42 AM The commercial supply ship Dragon has arrived at the International Space Station after a shaky start.
Posted: 7:39 AM Crews with heavy equipment have begun the demolition of a Florida home over a huge sinkhole where a man is presumed dead after being swallowed by the earth.
Posted: 10:23 PM Mushers and their dogs are taking a leisurely jaunt through Anchorage in the ceremonial start of Alaska's Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
Posted: 10:11 PM A Southern California wildfire is being held to 311 acres, despite extremely dry conditions and temperatures in the 80s.
Posted: 9:56 PM Most people who've done time in New York City jails can't wait to get away. On Friday, authorities accused one former inmate of sneaking back in.
Posted: 9:49 PM A smiling, playful 3-month-old polar bear cub has made its public debut at the Buffalo Zoo in western New York.
Posted: 6:25 AM Supporters of the long-delayed Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada to Texas say that a new State Department report is the latest evidence the project should be approved.
Posted: 7:26 AM The White House says automatic spending reductions set to kick in Friday will be put off until as close to midnight Friday night as possible. Call them the Cinderella cuts.
Posted: 6:41 AM Democratic legislation in the Senate to replace $85 billion in across-the-board spending cuts would result in very modest deficit savings through the end of the budget year, most if not of all of them through higher taxes on millionaires.
Posted: 8:24 AM Pope Benedict XVI has recalled moments of "joy and light" during his papacy but also times of great difficulty in an emotional, final general audience in St. Peter's Square before retiring.
Updated: 5:20 AM In a 58-41 vote, the Senate has approved former Sen. Chuck Hagel as defense secretary.
Posted: 8:49 AM The latest Associated Press Economy Survey suggests the biggest drag on the economy is the continued budget impasse in Washington, not the slow pace of consumer spending.
Posted: 8:46 AM A University of California-Berkeley engineer who played a prominent role in investigating levee breeches in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina is scheduled to be the first witness Tuesday at a trial involving another Gulf Coast catastrophe: the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history.
Posted: 7:04 AM A deeply divided Senate is moving toward a vote on President Barack Obama's contentious choice of Chuck Hagel to head the Defense Department.
Posted: 6:56 AM It's been one year since neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman fatally shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in central Florida.
Posted: 10:36 PM High school dropouts are costing some $1.8 billion in lost tax revenue every year, education advocates said in a report released Monday.
Posted: 9:57 PM Some of automatic federal budget cuts that kick in Friday could sting quickly.
Posted: 9:40 PM The Associated Press has learned that federal immigration authorities have released a number of detainees around the country to save money.
Posted: 7:12 AM If Ben Affleck was snubbed by the Oscars, everyone should be so lucky. His Iran rescue thriller "Argo" has won best picture from the Academy Awards.
Posted: 6:10 AM Furniture retailer Ikea says it has halted all sales of meat balls in Sweden after Czech authorities detected horse meat in frozen meatballs that were labeled as beef and pork.
Posted: 6:10 AM A Senate aide and a lobbyist say a dispute over whether to require record keeping for private gun sales is holding up a bipartisan compromise over expanding background checks for firearms transactions.
Posted: 6:20 AM Police have found a black Range Rover SUV in Las Vegas and identified a suspect in a shooting that sent a Maserati into a taxi that exploded, killing three people.
Posted: 6:17 AM At least 33 fans were injured Saturday during a NASCAR race when a car flew into the fence at Daytona International Speedway, hurling a tire and large pieces of debris into the stands.
Posted: 7:09 AM President Barack Obama's nominee to be the next Pentagon chief now has the Senate votes he will need.
