Authorities say an explosion at a fertilizer plant near Waco, Texas, has injured several people.

Authorities stormed an underground bunker Monday in southeastern Alabama, freeing a 5-year-old boy and leaving his captor dead after a week of fruitless

Three women AIDS activists saying they wanted to highlight the "naked truth" about potential spending cuts in HIV programs have been arrested after taking

BP has agreed to pay a $4.5 billion settlement with the U.S. government over the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Here's a look back at some of the

Several businesses in the Central Texas town of Waco are dealing with a smelly problem that won't go away: decaying cricket carcasses.

A soldier from Missouri died in Texas after gunfire blamed on a buddy who allegedly wanted to help cure the victim's hiccups.

Without providing any details due to federal regulations, Fort Hood officials issued a brief statement Monday morning which announced that suspected Fort Hood

A Georgia family is honoring Chipper Jones the best way they know how: by carving a maze in the image of the soon-to-be retired player into their 7-acre corn

On Sept. 17, 1862, in the bloodiest single day of the Civil War, an estimated 22,700 men died or were wounded.

The inability to rapidly share information, poorly trained FBI threat analysts, and the failure to exhaust all intelligence-sharing options led to the November

President Barack Obama has paid tribute to Ambassador Chris Stevens and three others killed in the assault on the U.S. compound in Libya, calling them patriots

Tens of thousands of people streamed off university campuses in Texas and North Dakota on Friday after telephoned bomb threats prompted officials to warn

Students give mixed grades to the extra carrots and apples - and fewer fatty foods - mandated by new federal rules.

Bringing together just the right combination of songwriter and musician is a rarity.  Gillian Welch has a gift for making music that seems to grasp this

Congress is moving to quash the threat of a government shutdown, but the prospect of a one-two punch of tax increases and slashing, automatic spending cuts