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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri teenager who admitted stabbing, strangling and slitting the throat of a young neighbor girl wrote in her journal on the night of the killing that it was an "ahmazing" and "pretty enjoyable" experience — then headed off to church with a laugh.

The ...

An estimated 4,500 children were so badly abused in 2006 they needed to be taken to a hospital, and 300 of them - mostly babies - died of their injuries, says a first-of-its-kind study released online Monday in the journal Pediatrics.

The study included a 3-month-old with multiple bruises, a ...

ANALYSIS/OPINION:

We must prepare ourselves for another four years of excessive spending, class warfare and unremitting political correctness.

Ronald Reagan succeeded wildly running for president with the slogan "It's morning in America." Would anyone believe it if a candidate tried that now? The most optimistic any of us could muster ...

The third annual National Marriage Week USA begins Tuesday amid a tumultuous state of the union.

Connubial joy is punctured by news that marital happiness plummets after a few years and having a baby puts romance on hold, sometimes for years.

U.S. marriage rates are low and dropping, while the ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Saboteurs have hacked into the websites of several law enforcement agencies worldwide in attacks attributed to the collective called Anonymous, including in Boston and in Salt Lake City, where police say personal information of confidential informants and tipsters was accessed.

The Utah hackers gained access ...

GRAHAM, Wash. — Josh Powell's note was simple and short, a farewell to the world after two years of being scrutinized in the media, hammered by police and questioned by judges, prosecutors and social workers, living his life under a microscope since the day his wife vanished.

"I'm sorry, goodbye," ...

Hackers being hunted by police worldwide eavesdropped on FBI and Scotland Yard officers investigating them.

The Internet outlaws, part of a loose coalition called Anonymous, got access to a telephone conference call between U.S. and British investigators and then posted a recording of their conversation on Friday.

"The FBI might ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Three mushroom pickers took refuge in a hollowed out tree after getting lost in an Oregon forest, fighting wintry chills for six days and drinking water from streams until a helicopter pilot spotted them.

Belinda and Daniel Conne, along with their 25-year-old son, Michael, managed to reach ...

HOPE MILLS, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina authorities said they used a stun gun on a female motorist who blocked a McDonald's drive-thru for 20 minutes after employees refused to serve her because she cut in line.

Authorities said 37-year-old Evangeline Lucca bypassed the order screen and line and pulled ...

Breast cancer research foundation Susan G. Komen for the Cure reversed on Friday its decision to defund Planned Parenthood after a three-day uproar that saw the foundation come under intense political pressure by pro-choice advocates.

Nancy G. Brinker, founder and CEO of the foundation, said in a statement that the ...

BOSTON — Hackers have taken over the websites of several law enforcement agencies worldwide in attacks attributed to the collective called Anonymous, including in Boston and in Salt Lake City, where police say personal information of confidential informants and tipsters was accessed.

The Utah hackers gained access Tuesday to sensitive ...

BOISE, Idaho — A small experimental plane piloted by the chief executive and chairman of Micron Technology Inc. crashed after take-off Friday at the Boise airport, killing the head of the memory chip company.

Steve Appleton, a stunt pilot who survived a similar crash in 2004, was 51.

National Transportation ...

LOS ANGELES — A second teacher pulled from a classroom at Miramonte Elementary School this week was arrested Friday, just days after a third-grade teacher was charged with lewd acts involving photographing nearly two dozen children for sexual thrills, authorities said.

In a related development, a lawyer on Friday filed ...

ANALYSIS/OPINION:

The Gaffe Patrol keeps its Nieuports, Spads and Sopwith Camels lined up wingtip to wingtip just off the runway at a secret base somewhere deep in Shangri-La, eager to pounce on a politician whose tongue slips. Only the valiant fly with the Gaffe Patrol.

But not always. Mitt Romney ...

The mission of the D.C. Children & Youth Investment Trust Corp., the nonprofit group at the center of former D.C. Council member Harry Thomas' theft scandal, is to expand and improve services for local children, especially when they are out of school.

But in early 2009, while facing a multimillion-dollar ...

A burgundy football jersey with gold trim hangs in Richard Sharpstein's law office on Brickell Avenue, one block from Miami's waterfront. A black marker's scrawl winds across the jersey's No. 21: "Thank you for everything." The wavy lines of an autograph sit below.

Sean Taylor.

While the sporting world counts down ...

It hasn't gotten much attention on the campaign trail, but President Obama and Republican front-runner Mitt Romney are sharply divided over one of the most controversial issues in higher education today — the growth of for-profit colleges.

While the Obama administration has cracked down on the burgeoning sector, the former ...

Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the women's health foundation under intense criticism for breaking ranks with Planned Parenthood, denied Thursday that political considerations played any role in its decision to cut off funding to the nation's largest abortion provider.

We will never bow to political pressure," Nancy G. Brinker, ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the renowned breast-cancer charity, is facing an escalating backlash over its decision to halt breast-screening grants to Planned Parenthood. Some of Komen's local affiliates are openly troubled, and at least one top official has quit, reportedly in protest.

Komen has ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Jerry Brown's administration and state lawmakers are hailing Facebook's much-anticipated plans for a public stock offering as a potential windfall for California's cash-strapped treasury, while some already say the extra revenue should go to preventing cutbacks to public schools.

"If it is as ...