South Carolina lawmakers say they'll formally consider the possible impeachment of Gov. Mark Sanford for the first time next week.
Travel problems delayed retired NBA star Jayson Williams from being in a New Jersey courtroom to enter an expected guilty plea in the 2002 shooting death of a hired driver.
Italian prosecutors have begun their closing arguments in the trial of an American student accused of killing her British roommate.
Britain's air force has helped rescue around 200 people stranded by rising floodwaters caused by torrential rainfall in a tourist region of northern England.
Pakistani intelligence officials say a reported U.S. missile strike has killed eight suspected militants in a northwestern region near the Afghan border.
An Afghan police official says the death toll from a suicide bombing in western Afghanistan has increased to 13.
A humanitarian group says formerly conjoined Bangladeshi twins separated this week will remain in the group's care for at least two years.
Police say a shootout in suburban Denver has left two bank robbery suspects dead and two police officers wounded.
A scientist trained in the U.S. and suspected of being an al-Qaida operative has promised to boycott her January trial in New York.
Police in North Carolina say a man already accused of kidnapping a 5-year-old girl also raped and asphyxiated her.
A New Jersey man who's been battling in Brazilian courts to get custody of his 9-year-old son is scheduled to testify before a congressional human rights panel in Washington.
A former assistant fire chief accused of setting two small fires in an arson-plagued steel town near Philadelphia has worked out a plea bargain freeing him from jail.
Robert Lee Thompson has been executed for his part in a fatal Houston store holdup after the Texas governor rejected a parole board's recommendation to spare him because he wasn't the gunman.
Nevada gambling regulators have approved a casino license for the centerpiece casino at the $8.5 billion CityCenter complex on the Las Vegas Strip.
North Las Vegas police say they've arrested two men suspected of killing an off-duty police officer in a shootout in the garage of his home.
Three teenagers accused of setting a 15-year-old south Florida boy on fire have pleaded not guilty to attempted second-degree murder.
Customs officials say they got a surprise when they found 316,000 glass bongs disguised as Christmas ornaments at the Los Angeles harbor.
A federal jury has ruled that New York City police didn't use excessive force when they arrested a professional clown who left a suspicious device that turned out to be a balloon inflator inside a coffee shop.
Another man has been indicted on terrorism charges in a federal investigation into the recruitment of Minnesota Somalis to fight in Somalia.
Oprah Winfrey's production company says Winfrey will announce Friday that her talk show will end in 2011 after its 25th season on the air.
The House Financial Services Committee has voted to pull the curtain on the normally secretive Federal Reserve by subjecting the nation's central bank to a sweeping congressional audit.
Newspaper advertising revenue in the U.S. plunged 28 percent in the third quarter to $6.4 billion.
Ohio's top public defender is taking on a rare challenge: accepting cases of convicted criminals who say they're innocent but don't have the DNA to prove it.
An Iraqi court has sentenced the leader of a government-allied paramilitary group to death for murder and kidnapping.
Authorities say one passenger is hospitalized in serious condition after a tour bus crash in southern Minnesota killed two people and injured 20.
Authorities say final autopsy results show that three college softball players who drowned when their sport utility vehicle went into a North Dakota pond had not been drinking or using drugs.
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