Posted: 10:04 AM Marcus Jordan, son of former NBA great Michael Jordan, has been fined $250 after pleading no contest to disturbing the peace in connection with a disturbance outside a downtown Omaha hotel last month.
Updated: 10:04 AM The latest update on the nation's drought shows that the parched conditions continue worsening in key farm states even as the situation across all of the continental U.S. leveled off.
Posted: 7:12 AM A judge will hear arguments about whether the Colorado theater shooting suspect's university records can be turned over to prosecutors.
Posted: 6:24 AM Officials say nobody has been hurt in a fiery wreck involving a freight train and a gasoline tanker truck in East Texas.
Posted: 5:10 PM Two cousins who admitted starting the largest wildfire in Arizona history have been sentenced to 48 hours in jail and 200 hours of community service.
Updated: 5:17 AM Airline pilots who fly certain Airbus jets that first came into service more than two decades ago have reported over 50 episodes of multiple electrical failures in the cockpit.
Posted: 5:00 AM Authorities say a man wanted in the killing of his 19-year-old estranged wife at San Diego City College in 2010 has been returned to the United States from Mexico.
Posted: 4:55 AM Police say a second person has died following a propane explosion that destroyed a suburban New York house, killing an 18-month-old boy and injuring more than a dozen others.
Posted: 7:12 AM The Alaska Volcano Observatory says in a release that satellite imagery showed a low-level ash cloud from Cleveland Volcano on Sunday.
Posted: 6:47 AM A Florida fossils dealer whose dinosaur was seized by the U.S. government so it could be given to the government of Mongolia is demanding in New York court papers it be given back to him.
Posted: 8:23 PM President Barack Obama says U.S. thinking on possible military involvement in Syria would change if chemical or biological weapons came into play in the Syrian civil war.
Posted: 6:19 PM Phyllis Diller, the housewife turned humorist who aimed some of her sharpest barbs at herself, has died at age 95 in Los Angeles.
Posted: 9:56 PM A sheriff says seven people arrested in a fatal shootout with Louisiana deputies have been linked to violent anarchists on the FBI's domestic terrorism watch lists.
Posted: 3:17 PM Federal weather forecasters say the drought appears to be leveling off, although it is likely to continue at least through November.
Posted: 7:08 AM For the past two months, the military judge presiding over the Fort Hood shooting suspect's case has said he wants to avoid disruptions in court.
Posted: 5:19 AM More than a month after an explosive investigative report accused Penn State's ousted president of covering up child sex abuse allegations against Jerry Sandusky, Graham Spanier (SPAN'-yur) has so far avoided criminal charges.
Posted: 7:06 AM Researchers at Texas A&M University are sailing into uncharted waters as they seek to reconstruct a 17th century ship with help from a gigantic freeze-dryer.
Posted: 5:49 PM Warren Buffett's company is reporting that it dropped its stake in Intel and added new investments in National Oilwell Varco and Phillips 66.
Updated: 4:08 PM Police say the gunman has died after a shooting that killed a law enforcement officer and another civilian near the Texas A&M University campus.
Updated: 8:25 AM President Barack Obama is pledging a wide-ranging response to the worst drought in a quarter-century.
Updated: 11:02 PM Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has selected Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan to be his running mate.
Posted: 11:09 AM An AWOL soldier convicted of planning to blow up a restaurant full of Fort Hood troops has been sentenced to life in prison by a federal judge in Texas.
Posted: 6:33 AM U.S. principles for a post-Assad Syria are security, sectarian harmony and no tolerance for extremists.
Posted: 6:13 AM There's no trial to prepare, no jury to persuade, no judge to hand down a sentence.
Posted: 6:04 AM In this last remnant of untouched coastal prairie near Houston, the Dr Pepper Snapple Group has partnered with The Nature Conservancy to ensure water quality and quantity for its nearby bottling plant.
