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Millions of Americans were set for more travel chaos Tuesday morning as a winter storm was expected to dump as much as six inches of snow on Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, New York City and Boston.
Nelson Mandela was, in the words of one old friend, "a great giant who strode the universe like a colossus," and his sendoff in South Africa will be on a scale not seen in modern memory.
A private ambulance service that transported more than a half-million patients a year in six states abruptly shut down without explanation, leaving dozens of cities and towns looking for transportation options Monday without a word of warning.First Med EMS, based in Wilmington, N.C.
Rescuers continued their search Monday night for a couple and four children who disappeared in a remote area of northwest Nevada on Sunday night, local officials said.
A one-time official in the Los Angeles suburb of Bell was convicted of public corruption in a case that nearly bankrupted the working class city.
The U.S. Supreme Court took up a legal dispute Monday between an airline pilot and his former employer whose suspicions caused him to be yanked off a flight home after failing a company test.
The woman who told Florida authorities in November that George Zimmerman threatened her with a gun during a heated argument recanted the allegations in documents released Monday — saying that she does not want him charged, according to a signed affidavit.
A Texas campus police officer shot and killed an honors student after a high-speed chase because the student stole his baton and began attacking him with it, the college said Monday.
Olympic gold medal skier Bode Miller and his ex-girlfriend came to a custody agreement in New York on Monday, in which they will both have time with their nine-month-old son.
Domestic violence charges were dismissed Monday against Aron Ralston, the hiker who inspired the Oscar-nominated movie "127 Hours" by sawing off his own arm to escape from a boulder he was pinned beneath.
