Posted: 10:00 PM A Louisiana college student desperately tried to fend off her killer by spraying him with mace and even stabbing him several times with his own knife before he fatally shot her last May.
Posted: 8:09 PM e U.S.-led military coalition says an Afghan working on an installation shared by Afghan and foreign forces has shot and killed three NATO service members.
Posted: 4:17 AM The Obama administration is making nearly half a billion dollars in unspent highway funds available to states that promise to use the money to create jobs and improve transportation.
Posted: 4:13 AM A NATO official says another Afghan policeman has turned his weapon on American allies in Afghanistan, killing two U.S. service members.
Posted: 9:23 PM Colorado's movie theater shooting hasn't rekindled the gun control debate in Congress. But Democratic leaders in three of the nation's most populous states are pushing weapons and ammunitions bans.
Posted: 9:21 PM Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan on Thursday denied for a second time that he ever lobbied the government for stimulus money, even though he sent letters -with his signature - to the Energy Department and Labor Department asking for millions of the program's dollars on behalf of two companies in Wisconsin.
Posted: 9:19 PM An Oregon man has his stolen bicycle back after seeing it advertised on Craigslist and setting up an elaborate interstate sting operation.
Posted: 9:16 PM Ann Romney says she had a "real scare" from a "little bitty" flare up of her multiple sclerosis during the campaign.
Posted: 9:53 PM Stock in retail giant Wal-Mart's Mexico subsidiary has dropped following allegations about money laundering and tax evasion.
Posted: 9:51 PM Haiti's government has hired a one-time Clinton administration official seeking to influence U.S. officials who pledged $3 billion after the 2010 earthquake devastated the impoverished nation's capital.
Posted: 9:49 PM Government regulators are finalizing safety rules for offshore drilling put in place after the BP oil spill.
Updated: 9:46 PM Chris Brown and Drake are being sued over a bottle-throwing nightclub brawl involving their entourages.
Posted: 9:44 PM Idaho (AP) - Across the West, dozens of fires fueled by searing heat, dry weather and strong winds have added up to misery for weary residents who already are fed up with one of the region's worst fire seasons in decades.
Posted: 3:52 PM A study off the Massachusetts coast has concluded that increasing amounts of underwater noise, largely from shipping traffic, is surrounding rare right whales in an "acoustic smog," making it harder for them to communicate.
Posted: 3:50 PM Four days after former Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky was convicted of sexually abusing 10 boys, a state prosecutor told a judge there was a "great deal" of incriminating evidence that didn't come up at trial.
Posted: 3:45 PM Another New Hampshire patient has been diagnosed with the same strain of hepatitis C carried by a medical technologist accused of stealing drugs and contaminating syringes that were used on patients.
Posted: 11:44 AM Lawyers for Drew Peterson have withdrawn a motion for a mistrial, allowing the former Illinois police officer's murder trial to go ahead.
Posted: 3:40 AM A judge yet again is poised to decide whether to cut short Drew Peterson's murder trial.
Posted: 3:33 AM Australia's highest court has upheld the world's toughest law on cigarette promotion in a move that will see all logos stripped from cigarette packs.
Posted: 3:32 AM The Obama administration on Tuesday directed young illegal immigrants to fill out new forms and pay $465 if they want to apply under a new program that would let them avoid deportation and obtain a U.S. work permit.
Posted: 3:31 AM An official says three grenades were thrown into a mosque compound during morning prayers in eastern Afghanistan, wounding at least nine worshippers.
Posted: 3:30 AM Ten-term Congressman John Mica has defeated freshman U.S. Rep. Sandy Adams following a tough primary battle that pitted two Florida Republican incumbents against each other because of redistricting.
Posted: 3:29 AM A fire commander says a wildfire that has destroyed at least 70 homes and burned across more than 40 square miles on the east slope of Washington's Cascade Mountains is 10 percent contained.
Posted: 10:33 PM A defiant Vice President Joe Biden is denouncing Republican criticism over his remarks to southern Virginia voters that presidential challenger Mitt Romney would put them "back in chains" but concedes he meant to use different words.
Posted: 3:19 PM Mitt Romney's campaign is blocking reporters from covering GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan's first meeting with donors in Las Vegas.
