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LOS ANGELES — The chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Monday there is no timetable for restarting the sidelined San Onofre nuclear plant on the Southern California coast and a federal review of its troubled tubing will take whatever time is necessary to complete.

The statement from Chairman Gregory ...

Interior Secretary Kenneth L. Salazar on Monday cheered on the opening of the first large-scale solar power project on federal property, just three days after his department rolled out new regulations on oil and gas companies doing business on those very same lands.

The Enbridge Silver State North solar project ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Pennsylvania prosecutors said Monday they now believe the alleged locker-room shower assault of a boy by Jerry Sandusky that ultimately led to football coach Joe Paterno's firing took place a year earlier than they first claimed....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Abbott Laboratories has pleaded guilty and agreed to pay $1.5 billion over allegations that it promoted the anti-seizure drug Depakote for uses that were not approved by the Food and Drug Administration....

CHICAGO (AP) -- Marcia Markwalder says Nelson Hallahan's hands constantly shook and he couldn't look her in the eye, yet, despite her unease, she and her late husband still gave him $35,000 to invest and recommended that friends do the same....

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Video footage played Monday at the opening of a trial stemming from the boat crash that killed two Hungarian tourists shows the teenage girl killed in the collision toss a deckhand her life jacket moments before the doomed vessel is driven under by an unmanned barge....

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Video footage played Monday at the opening of a trial stemming from the boat crash that killed two Hungarian tourists shows the teenage girl killed in the collision toss a deckhand her life jacket moments before the doomed vessel is driven under by an unmanned barge....

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) -- A surveillance video shows a Fullerton, Calif., police officer snap on latex gloves and threaten to take on a mentally ill homeless man before he and others pinned him down and shocked him with a stun gun in a confrontation that prosecutors say killed him....

NEW YORK (AP) -- New York Knicks star Amare Stoudemire scored 20 points in an NBA playoff win Sunday, but the bandage on his left hand reminded fans that he'd recently made headlines in quite a different way: smashing the glass of a fire extinguisher case after losing in Miami six days earlier....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Moving to protect the military from a crippling wave of budget cuts next year, a key House committee voted Monday to cut instead food aid, health care and social services like Meals on Wheels....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The CIA thwarted an ambitious plot by al-Qaida's affiliate in Yemen to destroy a U.S.-bound airliner using a bomb with a sophisticated new design around the one-year anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden, The Associated Press has learned....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama's election-year vagueness on gay marriage is coming under fresh scrutiny....

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Pennsylvania prosecutors in Jerry Sandusky's child sexual abuse case say they now believe the alleged assault that ultimately led to football coach Joe Paterno's firing took place a year earlier than they first claimed....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Army investigators said Monday they found no bullet wound or evidence of foul play in the death of a soldier in Afghanistan who died during a Skype video chat with his wife....

NEW YORK — The heirs of the man who helped develop the formula for Pepsi are suing the soda company over their right to share with the public documents detailing their father's invention.

The daughter and son of Richard Ritchie say PepsiCo Inc. is interfering with their ability to market ...

Ethan A. Huff | Why are some of the most popular vaccines commonly administered to children demonstrably causing autism in animal primates?

Andy Worthington | Jose Rodriguez, the director of the CIA's National Clandestine Service until his retirement in 2007, defends the use of torture.

denver.cbslocal.com | D’Avonte Meadows, a first-grader at Sable Elementary School in Aurora, is accused of sexual harassment.

The Guardian | "Cate Jenkins was fired from job as chemist after accusing EPA of deliberately covering up dangers of 9/11 wreckage dust."

The Final Call | The question about drones is not 'will they be here'...it's 'when will they be here?'