Updated: 2:09 PM A new mother has been charged with smoking the powerful synthetic stimulant known as bath salts two days after she gave birth, while still in the maternity ward of a central Pennsylvania hospital.
Updated: 7:48 AM Three affluent families are starting a fund to raise money for military veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Posted: 12:31 PM Joey Chestnut won his sixth straight Coney Island hot dog eating contest.
Posted: 12:20 PM A tour bus crash just north of New York City has sent 24 people to the hospital.
Posted: 6:58 AM If you want a glimpse of some of the worst of global warming, scientists suggest taking a look at U.S. weather in recent weeks.
Posted: 1:00 AM A 49-year-old grandmother and veteran endurance swimmer has scuttled her quest to become the first woman to swim unaided from Cuba to the Florida Keys.
Updated: 7:22 AM Military officials say a soldier who shot and killed his superior officer at Fort Bragg and then turned the gun on himself is also dead.
Updated: 12:43 AM Authorities have released the names of three Boy Scouts and their Scout leader who were killed in a head-on collision while driving back to Colorado from a camp in Wyoming.
Posted: 11:43 PM Sheriff's officials say a private helicopter has crashed into an Arizona river, killing all four people who were onboard.
Updated: 3:27 PM Republicans in at least three states want to abandon an expansion of Medicaid in President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, and more than a dozen other states are considering it in the wake of the Supreme Court decision removing the threat of federal penalties.
Posted: 5:44 PM California lawmakers finished work Wednesday on the state budget, which awaits Gov. Jerry Brown's signature.
Posted: 3:25 PM Mississippi's only abortion clinic is suing to stop a law from taking effect that it says will effectively ban the practice in the state.
Posted: 6:32 AM The Navy is putting unprecedented attention on reducing sexual assaults among sailors this year.
Posted: 5:15 AM Prosecutors in Baltimore are recommending a suspended sentence for a former member of an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood watch group convicted in the beating of a black teenager.
Posted: 11:17 PM Air Force Academy officials are evacuating some homes on school grounds as heavy smoke billows from a wildfire north of Colorado Springs.
Posted: 11:12 PM The House has turned back an attempt by a conservative Republican lawmaker to slash taxpayer subsidies for air service to isolated smaller cities and towns that can cost hundreds of dollars a ticket.
Posted: 10:59 PM Seattle Opera says an anticipated $1 million budget shortfall this season is forcing it to cut future performances, leadership salaries and staff.
Posted: 7:58 PM Warren Buffett's company completed its acquisition of 63 Media General newspapers on Monday.
Posted: 6:51 AM An Army private charged in the biggest leak of secrets in U.S. history is pressing prosecutors for evidence he hopes will bolster his defense.
Updated: 4:27 AM A lawyer for an adopted son of Jerry Sandusky says the man has told authorities the former Penn State assistant football coach abused him.
Posted: 2:57 PM House Republican officials and Attorney General Eric Holder say they're willing to negotiate an end to a potential constitutional confrontation in a dispute related to the botched "Fast and Furious" gun-tracking operation.
Posted: 2:35 PM Police say a man shot at the opposing attorney in his child custody case in Virginia.
Posted: 2:17 PM The House approved a bill Thursday aimed at expanding domestic oil drilling and reining in what Republicans call excessive regulations by the Environmental Protection Agency.
Posted: 9:49 AM The Republican chairman of the House Armed Services Committee says allowing gays to serve openly in the military is a settled issue that he won't try to reverse even if Mitt Romney wins in November and the GOP captures the Senate.
