Posted: 10:11 PM Bill McBride, the Florida Democrat who defeated Janet Reno for the party's gubernatorial nomination in 2002 but lost to Republican Gov. Jeb Bush, has died at the age of 67.

Posted: 10:02 PM U.S. military officials are investigating the apparent suicide of a Navy SEAL commander in Afghanistan.

Posted: 7:46 AM Police have arrested a suspect in the shooting deaths of two people overnight at a nightclub near Birmingham, Ala.

Posted: 7:37 AM Authorities say the shooting of the gunman in a rampage in central Pennsylvania that left three people dead was a justifiable homicide.

Posted: 7:27 AM Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford says he is considering a campaign for his former seat in Congress.

Posted: 7:18 AM People worldwide are expressing their support of residents in Newton, Conn., by sending toys, money and other gifts to the town.

Posted: 10:31 PM Funerals and memorial services are wrapping up for the 26 children and adults killed on Dec. 14 at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., just over a week ago.

Posted: 7:25 AM Authorities in central Pennsylvania are trying to determine why a man fatally shot three people along a rural road before dying in a gunfight with police.

Posted: 7:22 AM When horrible crimes happen like the Connecticut school shootings, people figure there surely were hints of impending violence. But experts say predicting who will be the next mass shooter is virtually impossible. That's partly because as commonplace as these calamities seem, they are relatively rare crimes.

Posted: 7:19 AM A judge has cleared the way for the battle between New Jersey and the four major professional sports leagues and the NCAA over possible sports gambling in the state to continue.

Updated: 7:17 AM President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama are wishing Americans a Merry Christmas and happy holidays in the president's weekly radio and Internet address.

Posted: 9:45 PM Appeals Court issues injunction until it can hear arguments.

Posted: 9:43 PM BP will pay nearly $8 billion to settle economic and medical claims.

Posted: 2:56 PM Federal appeals court rules on Hobby Lobby Obamacare request

Posted: 2:14 PM Monica Conyers, former Detroit City Council President and wife of U.S. Rep John Conyers, served sentence for bribery.

Posted: 1:29 PM A college in suburban Philadelphia is offering four full scholarships to siblings and dependents of the Connecticut school shooting victims.

Posted: 11:09 AM A senior administration official says President Barack Obama on Friday will nominate Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., as his next secretary of state.

Updated: 8:51 AM He cannot sign officially until April

Posted: 2:41 PM General Motors is recalling nearly 119,000 pickup trucks in the U.S. because the hoods can fly open unexpectedly and block the driver's vision.

Posted: 4:02 PM While the White House and Congress struggle to avert the economic "fiscal cliff," dairy farmers are worried that the outcome of the effort could affect the farm bill and milk prices.

Updated: 12:35 PM President Obama announces he will have Vice President Joe Biden lead his campaign to reduce gun violence.

Posted: 12:14 PM The chief of the U.S. State Department's security service and 3 other officials resign following damaging report on the attack of the U.S. embassy in Benghazi, Libya.

Updated: 11:51 AM It happened sometime Tuesday, at a high-rise jail in downtown Chicago. The men are still at large.

Updated: 2:10 PM A storm that has dumped more than a foot of snow in the Rocky Mountains is forecast to bring the first major winter storm of the season to the central Plains and Midwest.

Posted: 8:47 AM President Barack Obama has been named Time's "Person of the Year" for 2012.