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A boat loaded with bundles of marijuana -- possibly more than one ton -- washed ashore Monday morning on the Southern California coast.

Two Utah teenagers were in custody on multiple charges Monday after a concerned mother alerted authorities that they had threatened on Facebook to kill her son near his school, police told NBC News.Salt Lake City police Detective Greg Wilking said the threat appeared to be gang-related.

He outlasted pretty much everyone from what people affectionately call Old Hollywood and right up to the end, millions still picture Mickey Rooney from his early pictures as a young, enthusiastic guy with a twinkle in his eye.Back in the day, he was known as the most famous teenager in America.

MIAMI - The leader of a Florida megachurch has resigned after confessing to church administrators a "moral failing" preventing him from fulfilling his duties, according to a church statement over the weekend.

Chili's has canceled a fundraiser for a group that says that autism can be triggered by vaccinations, a position widely discredited by the medical community.

Jeter arrived for his last Yankee Stadium opener fashionably early at 9:35 a.m., attired in a gray suit, white shirt, purple tie and black Prada lace-up shoes.

GM has said it will begin fixing the vehicle ignition problem blamed for at least 13 deaths as part of a nationwide recall this week, but a check of more than a dozen GM dealerships by NBC News on Monday revealed that no work has begun because the necessary parts have not yet arrived.

More than three months after House Republican leaders allowed the Emergency Unemployment Compensation benefits program to expire, nearly 2.8 million jobless workers have lost their economic lifeline. Today, the U.S. Senate gave those workers a ray of hope when it passed (59-38) a bill reviving the program for long-term jobless workers. Now it is up to the House to keep that hope alive.

The gunman who killed three soldiers last week at Fort Hood, Texas, fired almost three dozen shots in just eight minutes before ending his own life, investigators said Monday.Spc. Ivan A.

Three police deputies in Florida prevented a man from jumping off a bridge in a suicide attempt Sunday, authorities said.In a release, the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office said the three deputies responded to the Bay Pines Bridge just before 10 a.m.