Posted: 9:14 PM Texas prison officials gave Cleve Foster a lethal injection at 6:43 p.m. CDT Tuesday, just hours after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to postpone his punishment for a fourth time.
Posted: 9:12 PM Firefighters say they have a better count of the number of residences burned in a wildfire in rural San Diego County, and 11 homes have burned, not 20 as they initially reported.
Posted: 9:10 PM Conservationists are offering a $1,500 reward for information.
Posted: 9:09 PM ProgressOhio's letter dated Monday alleges Romney's presidential campaign and Murray Energy Corp. violated campaign finance regulations.
Posted: 8:19 PM James J. Ladd was first noticed missing Sunday morning, after the tractor he had been operating was found abandoned in a field outside the minimum security Tillery Correctional Center.
Posted: 8:18 PM Twenty homes have been destroyed.
Posted: 8:16 PM Prosecutors in court Monday afternoon said they were convinced their chief witness had lied, and they asked for the release of John Smith, who had been convicted in a 1993 drive-by shooting in South Los Angeles.
Posted: 8:15 PM The report released Monday by the National Transportation Safety Board doesn't draw conclusions or assess blame. But it provides a sometimes unsettling picture.
Posted: 8:41 AM Authorities in Florida say a man found his wife and two young children dead in their home.
Posted: 8:37 AM Michelle Obama says protecting the right to vote has become the nation's most important civil rights issue.
Posted: 8:20 AM The mother of a 13-year-old girl allegedly raped at a Tulsa megachurch is suing the church for waiting two weeks to report the allegation.
Posted: 8:16 AM Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is heading to battleground Colorado.
Posted: 9:57 PM Neither side in a bitter patent battle is satisfied with Apple Inc.'s $1 billion jury verdict over Samsung Electronics after a three-week trial this summer.
Posted: 8:39 AM More than 100 protests against the natural gas drilling process known as fracking are planned across the globe on Saturday, and organizers are using an overly simplified message to draw people out and spur outrage.
Posted: 8:31 AM Texas jurors have convicted a man in the brutal 1984 stabbing death of his teenage friend, who prosecutors say had rejected his romantic advances.
Posted: 8:25 AM A former Guatemalan soldier accused of being involved in a brutal 1982 massacre during that country's civil war has been extradited to California where he faces immigration fraud charges.
Posted: 8:14 AM Wildfire crews in Washington state have twin worries today with the possible merger of a pair of big blazes and dry lightning in the weather forecast.
Posted: 9:54 PM Man jumped into tiger enclosure from a moving monorail.
Posted: 5:18 PM An airplane carrying Ann Romney made an emergency landing in Colorado Friday, after the cabin filled with smoke. The plane landed safely and no one was hurt.
Posted: 5:14 PM A hostage situation at an office building in Pittsburgh ends peacefully. The hostage taker communicated with authorities and loved ones via Facebook for several hours.
Posted: 10:44 PM Ads will compare Muslims to "savages."
Posted: 2:57 PM Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is meeting with members of Congress to discuss her plans for investigating the recent attacks on U.S. embassies in the Mid-East.
Posted: 2:51 PM Members of an Amish group in Ohio are found guilty of hate crimes against other Amish.
Posted: 5:18 PM The Justice Department's own report on a bungled gun-running operation says there were management failures, but does not blame Attorney General Eric Holder.
Updated: 3:39 AM Says the President of the United States has to work for everyone, not half the country.
