Law enforcement officials are trying to understand how a convicted felon managed to escape from a privately owned jail across the street from the police headquarters without anyone noticing his absence for a full day.
Nassau County police have arrested a Queens man for damaging a Long Island car wash - with his car. Authorities said the man was unhappy with the service he got at the Elmont car wash on Sunday afternoon.
Don't blame us, oil industry chiefs told a skeptical Congress. Top executives of the country's five biggest oil companies said Tuesday they know record fuel prices are hurting people, but they argued it's not their fault and their huge profits
Democratic leaders returned from their spring break this week to declare that Iraq is in turmoil and that they will continue to try to force President Bush to end the war. But facing another uphill battle, party members are undecided
The main opposition leader insisted Tuesday he has won Zimbabwe'spresidential election outright and denied persistent reports he wasnegotiating to ease out President Robert Mugabe, who has led thecountry from liberation to ruin.
A group of third-graders plotted to attack their teacher, bringing abroken steak knife, handcuffs, duct tape and other items for the joband assigning children tasks including covering the windows andcleaning up afterward, police said Tuesday.
The Bush administration plans to use its authority to bypass more than30 laws and regulations in an effort to finish building 670 miles offence along the southwest U.S. border by the end of this year, federalofficials said Tuesday.
A legislative effort to address the nation's home foreclosure crisismoved forward in the Senate Tuesday as Democratic and GOP leadersdefused a potential filibuster.
Independent truckers around the country pulled their rigs off the roadand others slowed to a crawl on major highways in a loosely organizedprotest of high fuel prices.
Sen. Barack Obama is talking about the elephant in the room - Republican rival John McCain - and all but ignoring the Democratic donkey who stands between him and his party's presidential nomination.
Wall Street began the second quarter with a big rally Tuesday asinvestors rushed back into stocks, optimistic that the worst of thecredit crisis has passed and that the economy is faring better thanexpected. The Dow Jones industrials surged nearly 400
The 2008 Major League Baseball season opens in parks across Americaafter a winter when the sport's steroids issue once again grabbedheadlines. Many fans do not believe that the use ofperformance-enhancing substances dominates the game, but more suspectplayer involvement today than
Transportation officials have reopened both eastbound and westbound lanes of Interstate 70 over after an accident involving as many as 75 vehicles shutdown the highway. The state Transportation Department said traffic will be allowed to pass in increments, and warned
Mark Castillo, 41, of Silver Spring has been charged with murder in the drowning deaths of his three children inside a room at a Marriott in Baltimore.
North Korea's media criticized South Korea's new president for thefirst time since his inauguration in a blistering rebuke, warningTuesday that Seoul's pro-U.S. policies could lead to "irrevocablecatastrophic consequences."
President Bush wants to bolster the multinational fight in Afghanistan by reminding NATO allies that the war is in their interest - and by persuading them to send more troops into battle.
Police said the thieves, seeking quick cash for drugs, stole and sold high-demand items for more than 1 1/2 years, often at up to an 85 percent discount from retail prices, and sometimes to return customers.
Two big studies offer good news to people with high blood pressure, finding that novel ways to use cheap drugs already on the market can lower their risk of heart attacks, stroke and death - even if they are very
