Firefighters are battling a large fire burning that started on a hillside and is now consuming homes in residential neighborhood in the San Bruno area.

Live television footage is showing flames shooting at least 20 feet high into the air and burning homes in a San Francisco suburb.

Philadelphia police say three people have been shot inside a Kraft Foods Inc. facility in the city's northeast section.

A federal judge in Southern California on Thursday declared the U.S. military's ban on openly gay service members unconstitutional because it violates the First Amendment rights of gay and lesbi...

A federal jury convicted the co-founder of an Islamic charity chapter Thursday on charges he helped smuggle $150,000 to Muslim fighters in Chechnya.

Five Missouri men are accused of taking part in the sexual torture of a young woman allegedly kept as a sex slave by one of the men and forced to work as a stripper, prosecutors announced Thursd...

Authorities have found another body inside the Northern California home where a 73-year-old man was found bludgeoned to death last month.

A Latino gang member was convicted Thursday of first-degree murder in the racially motivated shooting death of a 14-year-old black girl and the stabbing death of a potential witness. ...

A newly released video shows survivors of the plane crash that killed former U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens being loaded into a Coast Guard cargo plane and treated during a flight to Anchorage. ...

A woman was charged with murder Thursday after the bodies of her two children were found with marks on their necks and other injuries that police said were consistent with a struggle. ...

Alabama has executed a 50-year-old inmate for shooting his former girlfriend to death as she slept in 1993.

Police say a woman who couldn't afford to fix her car's brakes ran a red light and crashed into a school bus carrying elementary school children home in western Ohio.

There's no proof that a reclusive, 104-year-old heiress to a Montana copper fortune needs a court-appointed guardian, a judge said Thursday in rebuffing a request from relatives who fear her law...

The father of a U.S. soldier serving in Afghanistan says he tried nearly a half dozen times to pass an urgent message from his son to the Army: Troops in his unit had murdered an Afghan civilian...

that the federal government needs to intervene.

Police in California say officers feared for their safety when they gunned down a man who turned out to be wielding only a metal spatula when he was shot.

The Environmental Protection Agency asked nine natural gas companies Thursday to voluntarily disclose the chemical components used in a drilling technique called hydraulic fracturing. ...

Rahm Emanuel's expected departure as President Barack Obama's chief of staff may be just the start of wholesale personnel changes at the White House after what's predicted to be a devastating mi...

A couple siphoning gas from a Salvation Army van caught fire when it suddenly erupted in flames in Washington state.

Donald Trump's offer to buy an investor's stake where a mosque is planned near ground zero is falling flat.