Staff at LA school to be removed while district investigates allegations against 2 teachers

Missouri teen convicted in 9-year-old's death had troubled family, problems with depression

CENTENNIAL, Colo. — Employing some of his most conservative rhetoric to date, Mitt Romney referred to morning after pills as “abortive pills” during a speech at a rally in Colorado where he told the crowd about the importance of electing a president who will protect...

Newt Gingrich has positioned himself as Mitt Romney’s biggest threat to the nomination, but come Tuesday when Republicans in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri come out to vote, it’s Rick Santorum, not Gingrich that represents the biggest threat to Romney’s winning streak. Moreover, a strong performance...

Boy, 6, injured in mountain lion attack Sunday, parts of Big Bend closed to search for animal

Fisker Automotive, the maker of an exotic electric sports car that is being built with help from a $529 million federal government loan guarantee, has announced layoffs at its Delaware plant as it tries to persuade the Department of Energy to send it more public funds. The company says 26 Fisker employees have been let go from the Delaware factory where renowned automotive engineer Henrik Fisker promised to one day begin producing affordable electric sedans. A Delaware newspaper also reported that subcontractors working on the car venture have been let go.

Dog owners complain, McDonald's pulls ad comparing eating Chicken McBite to petting pit bull

Kenneth Robinson has finally been kicked out of the $340,000 home that he had lived in since June for $16.

The tearful father of missing Alaska teenager Samantha Koenig abducted by an armed man said that she filed a protective order against a man in November but was too scared to follow it through. "She filed for a restraining order against a person she barely knew and was too afraid to go through with it in court," James Koenig told ABCNews.com.

Amanda Knox's legal team files an appeal of her slander conviction for implicating her former boss Patrick Lumumba in the death of her roommate Meredith Kercher. Knox claims she made the statement during a marathon grilling by Italian police.

What's most striking about Japan's nuclear exclusion zone, is what you don't see. There are no people, few cars, no sign of life, aside from the occasional livestock wandering empty roads.

Tom Brady may feel like one of the country’s biggest losers right now, but his supermodel wife still has his back. After the Super Bowl, Gisele Bundchen was confronted by hecklers at Indianapolis’ Lucas Oil Stadium. A video from the scene shows Bundchen walking toward...

Forget Madonna — the most memorable moment of Sunday’s Super Bowl halftime show came when M.I.A. threw up her middle finger and uttered an expletive to the audience of millions, recalling the raciness of Janet Jackson’s 2004 “wardrobe malfunction” and rendering The Material Girl tame...

The never-ending hysteria over a Doomsday cometh has sparked a growing movement of people called "preppers" who prepare for the end of the world as we know it – and in some cases, make a profit.

“Big Pimpin’” in Carnegie Hall: It happened Monday night when Jay-Z rocked the iconic New York City venue, bringing more than 2,000 fans to their feet for the first of two charity shows to benefit his Shawn Carter Scholarship Foundation and the United Way. “All...

Chicago firefighters made a daring overnight rescue to free a man trapped for more nearly four hours in a broken high-rise elevator. The man, in his 20′s, was on his way home just after 9 p.m. last night, when the elevator he was riding in...

Country music star Randy Travis is arrested for public intoxication.

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Chrysler's Super Bowl ad to makes a political statement, again.

Second only to M.I.A. and her middle finger, the other Super Bowl halftime performer who caused America’s collective jaw to drop was this guy — a toga-clad tightrope dancer who defied the laws of gravity and wedgies while bouncing to Madonna’s “Music.” Equal parts Will...

A star nursery, the aurora as seen from the International Space Station in orbit, a storm on Saturn as big as Earth, a spectacular solar flare, and images of the cosmos from the Hubble Space Telescope.

Lessons to be learned from QB's calm leading team to Super Bowl victory.

Gas prices increase across the country.