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Gulf Coast preps as Ida weakens to tropical storm
Schools closed, people in low-lying areas sought shelter and the governors of Florida and Alabama declared states of emergency Monday as a rare late-season tropical storm churned toward the Gulf Coast.
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US Supreme Court refuses to stop sniper execution
The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to block Tuesday's scheduled execution of sniper mastermind John Allen Muhammad.
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High court looks at life in prison for juveniles
The Supreme Court appears sharply divided over whether sentencing a juvenile to life in prison with no chance of parole is cruel and unusual punishment, particularly if the crime is less serious than homicide.
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Hospital: Ft. Hood shooting suspect awake, talking
The man accused of killing 13 people and wounding 29 at Fort Hood is able to talk, a hospital spokesman said Monday, but it's unknown when investigators might take advantage of his improving health to press forward with their probe into the shooting spree.
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Prosecutors say Chicago man had al-Qaida video
Federal prosecutors say a video produced by Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida terrorist network was found in the home of a Chicago man charged with plotting an attack on a Danish newspaper.
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Case against Ohio bodies suspect expands overseas
Authorities are investigating whether a man whose home and yard harbored the remains of at least 11 people is connected to any killings in places he lived while in the military, including Japan, California and the Carolinas.
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Tagged.com settles with NY, Texas in invite fight
The social networking site Tagged.com has adopted reforms on the use of invitation e-mails after an attorney general alleged that the Web site essentially stole the identities of some 60 million Internet users.
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4 people found shot to death in rural Texas home
Authorities called to check on a family’s well-being in a rural southeast Texas home found the bodies of four people who had been shot to death.
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DC area relives terror as sniper's execution nears
When James D. Martin was shot dead seven years ago in the parking lot of a grocery store in suburban Washington, it got little attention on the nightly news.
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Witness: Fla. office shooter stayed about a minute
A man who was in an Orlando office when a former employee came in and started shooting said Monday that the ordeal that left one dead and five injured lasted about a minute.
