Sen. Edward M. Kennedy says he has a malignant brain tumor. Doctors for the Massachusetts Democrat say it was discovered after a seizure this weekend.

Ammo prices for many popular guns have more than tripled in the last three years, driven in large part by surging demand for metals in rapidly industrializing China.

Sister Catherine Mulkerrin, who pressed Roman Catholic church leaders in Boston to warn parishioners about priests who had been accused of sexually abusing children, has died. She was 73.

A Justice Department audit of terror interrogations at three bases overseas concluded that FBI agents refused to participate when detainees were questioned under harsh methods.

Three people died Tuesday after refrigerated gas leaked from a shipping container on a cargo ship at Florida's Port Everglades, authorities said.

Decades after law enforcement raided the ranch where Charles Manson hid following a 1969 killing spree, detectives and scientists are returning to hunt for undiscovered graves.

A massive and smoky wildfire burned in the Everglades early Tuesday, prompting health warnings across South Florida and the evacuation of two detention centers.

A former Los Angeles police officer who participated in home invasion robberies staged to look like police raids was sentenced Monday to 102 years in prison.

A firearms instructor in southern Massachusetts has been assigned to other duties after his gun accidentally went off while he was teaching a class on weapons safety.

The parents of the children in state custody after a raid at a polygamist sect's ranch left a courthouse Monday complaining that Texas child welfare officials offered no real answers.

A proposed court settlement would move some inmates in California's overcrowded prison system into treatment programs or alternatives like electronic monitoring and community service instead of them being released early.

Schools face a wide range of  consequences if they fail to raise math and reading scores by a federal deadline of 2013-14.

An explosion rocked a Hilton hotel under construction in San Diego on Monday, injuring 14 workers, five of them critically, authorities said.