Prosecutors said Monday they will not seek the death penalty against four people charged with murdering Washington Redskins star Sean Taylor because the accused shooter was a minor when the crime was committed.

Addressing criticism he expects this fall, Sen. Barack Obama emphasized his patriotism and support for a strong and humane military Monday, while Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton implored West Virginians to sustain her hopes of somehow denying him the Democratic presidential

Heavy rain and strong winds battered the mid-Atlantic region Monday, knocking out power to tens of thousands of customers, closing roads that flooded and prompting evacuations in flooded communities.

Prosecutors said Monday they will not seek the death penalty against four people charged with murdering Washington Redskins star Sean Taylor because the accused shooter was a minor when the crime was committed.

Southwest Airlines says a passenger who refused to get off his cell phone during a flight found Dallas police waiting for him.

As the Arctic ice cap shrinks, the Pentagon is eyeing the expanding navigable waters as possible entry points for security threats that must be monitored more closely, the chief of the U.S. Northern Command told The Associated Press.

Two ex-State Department employees say the Bush administration ignored corruption at the highest levels within the Iraqi government and kept secret potentially embarrassing information.

Sue Sigle was hoping the government would offer more money for her home before she moves away from this pollution-scarred town. Then the tornado came.

A massive earthquake struck central China on Monday and state media reported that as many as 5,000 people were killed in a single county while nearly 900 students were trapped under the rubble of their school.

The first U.S. relief airlift has arrived in Myanmar carrying emergency supplies for last week's cyclone victims.

The tornado - spawned by storms that also killed at least 16 people in Missouri and Georgia - could be the ultimate incentive for 800 or so residents to leave.

Before you drop your letters or bill payments in the mail, you may want to double check the amount of postage you have on it. The cost to send a first class letter goes from 41-cents to 42-cents today.

A powerful, 7.8-magnitude earthquake rocked central China on Monday, shaking buildings and spreading panic in cities as far away as Beijing and the business hub of Shanghai. Chinese state media says the quake buried nearly 900 students in Sichuan province.