Posted: 9:26 AM A prisoner with Mafia ties claims he escaped because he can't get the medical treatment he needs.

Posted: 9:18 AM The AARP says Omaha is one of the top 10 places in the country to retire affordably.

Posted: 8:15 PM President Barack Obama is traveling to Colorado on Sunday to visit with the victims of the movie theater shooting and their families.

Updated: 9:33 AM Police say 71 people were shot in a suburban Denver movie theater early Friday during midnight shows of the new Batman movie. Twelve people were killed, ten of them at the theater.

Posted: 8:37 PM The former chairman of the Penn State board of trustees has resigned, the first board member to do so in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal.

Posted: 2:57 PM An effort to make the government write so people can understand what they're reading is off to a spotty start.

Posted: 2:49 PM Republican Mitt Romney says the news that more Americans sought unemployment benefits last week is the latest proof that President Barack Obama should be voted out of office in November.

Posted: 7:54 AM The parents of the unarmed teen who was shot and killed by a Florida neighborhood watch volunteer reject the shooter's claim that the shooting was a part of God's plan.

Posted: 7:05 AM For six years, the self-proclaimed toughest sheriff in America has vehemently denied allegations that his deputies racially profile Latinos in his trademark immigration patrols.

Posted: 9:18 PM George Zimmerman says he would tell Trayvon Martin's parents: "I'm sorry," and says he's open to talking with them.

Posted: 3:21 PM Google, so far, has won the search engine wars. Now it wants to take on Mexico's powerful drug cartels and other global crime.

Posted: 2:33 PM Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney says President Barack Obama cares more about his own job than about finding jobs for millions of unemployed Americans.

Posted: 2:28 PM YouTube is offering people a way to blur faces in submitted video.

Posted: 7:37 AM Syria's state-run TV says President Bashar Assad's brother-in-law is among the dead in a suicide bombing in Damascus.

Posted: 12:32 PM The FBI is investigating after needles were found in turkey sandwiches on Delta Air Lines flights from Amsterdam to the United States.

Posted: 12:20 PM The president of the NCAA says he isn't ruling out the possibility of shutting down the Penn State football program in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal.

Updated: 10:23 PM After a confidential two-year review, the Boy Scouts of America has emphatically reaffirmed its policy of excluding gays, ruling out any changes despite relentless protest campaigns by critics.

Updated: 12:18 PM Police say a gunman accused of firing into a crowded bar near the University of Alabama campus has been taken into custody.

Posted: 4:36 PM A judge has denied bail for three Chicago teenagers accused of taking part in the beating death of a disabled man and posting a video of the attack on Facebook.

Posted: 4:32 PM A Phoenix man accused of putting his 10-year-old daughter inside a padlocked footlocker for punishment has pleaded not guilty to felony child abuse charges.

Posted: 4:29 PM A Senate investigation has found that Europe's largest bank had lax controls that allowed Mexican drug cartels to launder money through its U.S. operations for seven years.

Posted: 3:54 PM Millions of uninsured people may have to wait until after Election Day to find out if and how they can get coverage through President Barack Obama's health care law.

Posted: 3:05 PM Ford Motor Co. is recalling 8,266 redesigned 2013 Escape SUVs in the U.S. to fix carpet padding that could get in the way of braking.

Posted: 9:51 AM The long-awaited opening of a $110 million beef processing plant in northeastern South Dakota has been delayed.

Posted: 8:40 AM Legal experts say evidence from the Penn State scandal supports allegations similar to those made against a top Philadelphia archdiocese official who was convicted on child endangerment charges last month.