Posted: 7:15 PM The Coast Guard is still searching for the captain of the HMS Bounty.

Posted: 12:28 PM Oil refineries on the East Coast of the U.S. are shutting down or throttling back in advance of a massive storm.

Updated: 8:06 AM The sister of a New York City nanny accused of stabbing two young children to death says she "loved those children" and is a peaceful woman.

Posted: 7:10 AM Steering clear of the superstorm bearing down on the East Coast, Republican Mitt Romney returns to battleground Ohio to woo voters nine days before the election.

Posted: 7:06 AM A geologist tracking a tsunami in Hawaii says the first waves hitting shore are smaller than expected.

Posted: 10:47 PM German automaker BMW is recalling some of its 7-Series luxury cars due to reports of transmission control problems that can cause parked vehicles to roll away.

Posted: 7:45 AM Prosecutors at the trial of a woman accused of murder after four children died in a fire at her Houston home day care are presenting testimony from neighbors and emotional 911 calls to detail for jurors the frantic efforts to try to save the kids.

Posted: 7:41 AM State and federal officials say an international hacker broke into the South Carolina Department of Revenue computer files and gained access to about 3.6 million tax returns.

Posted: 7:36 AM President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney are launching a 10-day sprint to the finish line in a contest increasingly about momentum vs. math.

Posted: 7:33 AM An Associated Press polls finds that racial attitudes have not improved in the four years since the United States elected its first black president.

Updated: 9:18 PM At least two dozen ships leave Norfolk Naval Station.

Updated: 6:54 PM A defense attorney says the officer, Gilberto Valle, was merely engaging in harmless Internet fantasy.

Posted: 6:52 PM A hospital spokeswoman says Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is in good condition after an apparent rear-end crash on an interstate through Las Vegas.

Posted: 5:17 PM Bullet Fragments and casings lead to one firearm.

Posted: 9:31 PM Police say they believe a nanny at a luxury New York City apartment building has stabbed two small children to death and stabbed herself.

Updated: 9:28 PM The ACLU said Thursday that it filed the federal lawsuit on behalf of activists who were trying to document California border crossings with Mexico and had their photos deleted by authorities.

Posted: 4:51 PM Colin Powell, former Secretary of State and a Republican, went on television Thursday endorsing President Obama for re-election.

Posted: 4:47 PM The man accused in the shooting at a Georgia megachurch had been released from a Maryland psychiatric hospital in 2006.

Posted: 6:56 PM The toll road is intended to help alleviate the increasingly crowded Interstate 35 corridor between Austin and San Antonio, which are two of the state's largest metropolitan areas.

Posted: 6:53 PM Seventeen-year-old Austin Reed Sigg was formally arrested Wednesday in the death of Jessica Ridgeway, who disappeared Oct. 5.

Updated: 2:19 PM At least one person has reportedly been killed at a shooting at The World Changers Church International, a mega-church in College Park, Georgia.

Posted: 11:25 AM New figures suggest that the housing market is improving.

Updated: 11:30 AM Thieves tampered with the devices used to swipe credit & debit cards in dozens of its stores; customers urged to check for unauthorized transactions.

Posted: 8:42 PM The Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department says in a statement that the attack Tuesday morning at Surf Beach killed 39-year-old Francisco Javier Solorio Jr. of Orcutt.

Posted: 2:20 PM Thousands of Medicare patients with severe chronic illnesses like Alzheimer's would get continuing access to rehab and other services under a proposed settlement to a national class action suit.