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Ex-beauty queen champions Afghan legal change

HANOVER, N.H. — Things have only gotten messier at Dartmouth College in the weeks since a former fraternity brother went public with hazing allegations involving swimming in and swallowing vomit.

Senior Andrew Lohse brought the issue to the forefront in January, when he wrote a column in the school newspaper ...

DYERSVILLE, Iowa — Should we build it, and would they come?

Those are the questions being debated in the Iowa town where "Field of Dreams" was filmed as it considers a $38 million proposal to turn the farmland around the famous cornfield diamond into one of the nation's largest youth ...

Lawmakers in California's Assembly will hit the campaign trail this year, touting their votes on all manner of bills. But what they say may not reflect the stand they took when the bill was being debated.

That's because California is one of at least 10 states in which some lawmakers ...

NEW YORK — Most voters in New York City have no problem with the way the police department has treated Muslims, a poll showed Tuesday, despite weeks of criticism leveled against the NYPD's counterterrorism program by Muslim activists and out-of-state politicians.

A series of articles by the Associated Press has ...

SAN FRANCISCO — The San Francisco sheriff has a political thicket to get through now that he's putting his legal woes behind him with a plea bargain in a domestic-violence case that made international headlines.

Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi pleaded guilty Monday to a misdemeanor charge of false imprisonment in exchange ...

What next year's changes will mean for your budget

How the pineapple will be used to calculate the cost of living

Can the precious metal calm financial markets?

Households owed smaller amounts in 2011 than the previous year but faced a "tide" of difficulties in paying back these debts, a report suggests.

Detainees in Syria's prisons are routinely and systematically tortured in what amounts to crimes against humanity, says Amnesty International.

CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. (AP) -- The state rested Tuesday after witnesses in a wrongful death lawsuit testified that Virginia Tech officials acted properly on April 16, 2007, when a lone gunman killed 32 on the Blacksburg campus and then himself....

CHICAGO (AP) -- Break out the beach towels, flip-flops and baseball bats: Warm weather is arriving early across much of the U.S., even in northern states where perplexed residents are swapping their snow shovels for golf clubs....

LONDON (AP) -- Former News International executive Rebekah Brooks and her racehorse trainer husband Charlie were arrested in dawn raids that also netted four other suspects in the spreading phone hacking scandal....

LONDON (AP) -- Pressing to save his job, Britain's culture secretary said Friday he will disclose all the texts and emails he sent to a special adviser who resigned amid questions over too-close contacts the government may have had with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp....

NEW YORK (AP) -- A matchmaking recruiter accused of helping to run a big-money brothel turned herself in Tuesday to face a criminal charge - and a growing media frenzy surrounding the case....

Campaigners are fighting to save a theme-pub called 'The Hobbit', which its landlady claims has been threatened with legal action by US movie lawyers.

As Somali piracy grows as a threat for vessels sailing in the Gulf of Aden, an increasing number of ships are using armed security teams to protect themselves.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- A charitable marketing program that paid homeless people to carry Wi-Fi signals at South By Southwest has drawn widespread debate at the annual Austin conference and around the country....

Steven Gerrard says Liverpool must use their victory over Everton to end the inconsistency that has plagued their season.