INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A 24-year-old cheerleading coach from Ohio died Monday from head injuries she sustained during the stage collapse at the Indiana State Fair, and it wasn't immediately clear if...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A 5.9 magnitude earthquake centered in Virginia forced evacuations of all the monuments on the National Mall in Washington and rattled nerves from Georgia to Martha's Vineyard,...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Casey Anthony should be forced to serve probation for check fraud because it was impossible to enforce the sentence when she was jailed while awaiting trial on charges of murdering...

CAIRO (AP) — Libya's rebels began as a disparate group of former government insiders, Western-leaning intellectuals, businessmen and even a smattering of ex-Islamist militants. But they were united...

NEW YORK (AP) — The stock market stabilized Monday as investors looked for cheap stocks after a four-week losing streak. The Dow Jones industrial average gave up a 200-point rally and was up 45 points...

NEW YORK (AP) — Lil Wayne is hoping his performance on the MTV Video Music Awards will be so good, fans will rush out and get his new album: The rapper is making it digitally available at midnight...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Hurricane Irene cut power to more than a million people in Puerto Rico, downing trees and flooding streets on Monday, and forecasters warned it could be a major storm...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Arnie Fielkow, a former New Orleans Saints executive who was elected to the New Orleans City Council after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city, is leaving his political post...

Militants block starving Somali refugees from receiving relief MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — In a squalid refugee camp beside Mogadishu's airport, some 2,000 desperately hungry women and children await...

Norwegian rampage culprit calm, expects life in jail for terror attacks OSLO, Norway (AP) — The self-described perpetrator of the mass killings in Norway told authorities he expects to spend the...

Al-Qaida uses multimedia, plans cartoon recruiting film for kids   LONDON (AP) — An al-Qaida affiliate says it plans to roll out what some have called a Disney-like animated cartoon aimed at...