May 18, 2012 3:19 pm
Officials have lifted quarantines on two Central California dairies linked to a case of mad cow disease, after investigators found the illness didn't come from cattle feed.
May 18, 2012 3:19 pm
Quebec's provincial government is expected to vote Friday on an emergency law that would shut some universities and impose harsh fines on protesters blocking students from attending classes as the government looks to end weeks of demonstrations against tuition hikes.
May 18, 2012 3:18 pm
Barack Obama was the first Democrat in 44 years to win Indiana in the 2008 presidential race. A repeat coup seems doubtful this year.
May 18, 2012 3:18 pm
If you're lucky enough to live in some parts of the United States, you may see gas pump prices fall to around $3.25 a gallon or less in the next week or two. Even West Coast drivers should get some relief from prices that are still above $4 a gallon.
May 18, 2012 3:16 pm
It's Facebook's big day. The site, which was born in a dorm room eight years ago and has grown into a worldwide network of almost a billion people, is making the most talked-about stock market debut in years.
May 18, 2012 3:16 pm
Opposition to Iran obtaining nuclear weapons is widespread around the world, including in neighboring countries Egypt, Jordan and Turkey, and support for tough economic sanctions is high, according to poll released Friday.
May 18, 2012 3:14 pm
Authorities say a central Florida man stole two swan eggs from a nest and then proceeded to cook them. Lakeland police say 60-year-old Marcellino Rodriguez took the eggs from a nest on Lake Wire. He then allegedly took them home, scrambled them and consumed a portion.
May 18, 2012 3:12 pm
Alabama state officials have outlined cuts to Medicaid that have comes as a result of lower than expected state revenue. The cuts include a 10 percent reduction to payments for certain providers, including doctors, dentists, x-rays, medical equipment and maternity primary contractors.
May 18, 2012 3:11 pm
It's Facebook's big day. The site, which was born in a dorm room eight years ago and has grown into a worldwide network of almost a billion people, is making the most talked-about stock market debut in years.
May 18, 2012 3:07 pm
A Republican senator has asked both political parties to refund the millions of federal dollars each has received to help pay for this summer's presidential nominating conventions.
May 18, 2012 3:07 pm
The Federal Aviation Administration will revisit a decision to exempt cargo airlines from new rules to prevent pilot fatigue, saying it made "errors" in cost calculations used to justify the exemption.
May 18, 2012 3:06 pm
Chaos in Greek politics and Spanish banking combined this week to underscore just how fragile Europe's economy remains after an eviscerating austerity regime that has spawned unemployment, desperation and misery. And there is no respite in sight, as Germany's finance minister predicted Friday that...
May 18, 2012 3:06 pm
In Virginia, Gov. Bob McDonnell runs TV ads hailing the state's business growth. Ohio Gov. John Kasich tells anyone who will listen that 100,000 jobs have been created or retained on his watch. And Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder promotes a state budget that's on solid ground for the first time in a...
May 18, 2012 3:05 pm
A Southern California woman has been sentenced to life in prison without parole in the shooting death of her millionaire live-in boyfriend. Nanette Ann Packard was sentenced Friday in Orange County Superior Court for the 1994 murder of William Francis McLaughlin.
May 18, 2012 3:03 pm
Alabama's unemployment rate has declined for the ninth consecutive month to 7.2 percent for April. That's down from a revised March rate of 7.4 percent and the April 2011 figure of 9.2 percent.
May 18, 2012 3:03 pm
Germany's chancellor apparently waded into Greece's choppy political waters on Friday, when Athens said Angela Merkel suggested that the country should hold a referendum on the euro together with next month's national elections.
May 18, 2012 3:00 pm
President Barack Obama's support for gay marriage has emboldened activists and politicians on both sides of the issue, setting off a flurry of political activity in a number of states and serving as a rallying point in others where gay marriage votes are being held this fall.
May 18, 2012 3:00 pm
About 600 inmates have filed out of a troubled penitentiary where a group of armed prisoners has held off authorities in a three-week standoff, Venezuelan officials said Friday.
May 18, 2012 2:59 pm
The man who built an eccentric Mojave Desert compound known as Phonehenge West was placed on five years' probation on Friday and ordered to serve 63 days community service, five of them at the county morgue.
May 18, 2012 2:54 pm
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have signed second-round draft pick Lavonte David to a four-year contract. The linebacker out of Nebraska was the 58th overall selection in the draft. He is expected to compete for a starting job on a defense that ranked among the worst in the NFL last season.
May 18, 2012 2:54 pm
Faced with the prospect of losing both hands and her one remaining foot, a young Georgia woman battling to survive a case of flesh-eating bacteria that has already claimed one leg mouthed the words "Let's do this."
May 18, 2012 2:53 pm
The House passed a $642 billion defense budget for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1 that adds billions of dollars to President Barack Obama's spending blueprint and rejects several of his proposals. The White House has threatened a veto. A look at some of the bill's disputed provisions:
May 18, 2012 2:51 pm
The Texas Supreme Court ordered the state Friday to pay about $2 million to an ex-inmate who spent 26 years in prison for murder before his conviction was overturned, a decision legal experts said could set a new standard for when ex-prisoners should be compensated.
May 18, 2012 2:47 pm
Ultra-Orthodox Jews who believe that the Internet threatens their way of life have rented the New York Mets' stadium for an unprecedented gathering on how to use modern technology in a religiously appropriate way.
May 18, 2012 2:45 pm
Florida A&M's president says the hazing death of a marching band member is tragic, but promised an alumni group in North Carolina that the celebrated band would return.
May 18, 2012 2:43 pm
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, the renowned German baritone singer who performed for more than five decades on stages in Berlin, Vienna, London and New York, died Friday. He was 86.
May 18, 2012 2:42 pm
Pedro R. Pierluisi wants Puerto Ricans in Florida to register and vote with the same enthusiasm their families do back on the island. Pierluisi is Puerto Rico's resident commissioner in Washington, the closest the island has to a U.S. congressman.
May 18, 2012 2:42 pm
The State Department says deep cuts to its budget proposed by Congress will damage America's security and global leadership as well as prove costly to taxpayers in the long run.
May 18, 2012 2:42 pm
A military judge is considering whether to hold more than one trial for the five Guantanamo prisoners charged in the Sept. 11 attacks.
May 18, 2012 2:41 pm
Former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling's video game company has made a $1.1 million payment to the state and now should seek out private financing to stay afloat, Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee said Friday. "There's no more easy money," Chafee said at a press conference.
May 18, 2012 2:41 pm
Ignoring a White House veto threat, the Republican-controlled House approved a $642 billion defense budget Friday that breaks a deficit-cutting deal with President Barack Obama and restricts his authority in an election-year challenge to the Democratic commander in chief.
May 18, 2012 2:41 pm
A man convicted of killing children in Idaho and California has returned to U.S. District Court in Boise to prepare for a review of part of his death penalty case.
May 18, 2012 2:40 pm
Authorities say robbery appears to be the motive of a suspect in a pair of killings that frightened motorists in northwestern Mississippi.
May 18, 2012 2:40 pm
Protesters who hope to make their voices heard at a global economic summit at Camp David said they plan peaceful demonstrations Friday in the nearby town of Thurmont.
May 18, 2012 2:40 pm
Salvage experts plan to use water-filled cisterns to weigh down the above-sea side of the cruise liner capsized off the Italian coast - part of an effort to turn the massive vessel upright so that it can towed for demolition early next year. One official on Friday called the operation's magnitude...
May 18, 2012 2:40 pm
Failure of a large-scale mine planned near the headwaters of one of the world's premier salmon fisheries in Alaska could wipe out or degrade rivers and streams in the region for decades, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said in a draft watershed assessment released Friday.
May 18, 2012 2:38 pm
The Army says murder charges have been filed against a Washington-based sergeant accused of killing five other soldiers in May 2009 at a mental health clinic in Iraq.
May 18, 2012 2:38 pm
French President Francois Hollande said Friday he would carry out his pledge to withdraw combat forces from Afghanistan by year's end, two years earlier than the U.S. ally once planned. He made the declaration to President Barack Obama in the Oval Office.
May 18, 2012 2:35 pm
Alabama Democrats are having no success in changing the new legislative districts proposed by Republicans. Two legislative committees turned down redistricting plans drawn by Democrats and approved Republican-backed plans Friday.
May 18, 2012 2:34 pm
California's nonpartisan legislative analyst says Gov. Jerry Brown's plan to close the state's $15.7 billion deficit is reasonable, although it might overstate the potential revenue from defunct redevelopment agencies.
May 18, 2012 2:33 pm
An American woman who adopted a Russian boy and later sent him back to Moscow on a one-way flight has been ordered to pay $150,000 and cough up an additional $1,000 a month in child support.
May 18, 2012 2:30 pm
Former Louisiana Gov. Buddy Roemer's foundering bid to run for president as an independent candidate has taken another significant hit.
May 18, 2012 2:29 pm
An exploratory oil well drilled off the coast of Cuba has proved a failure and will be capped and abandoned, a spokesman for Spanish company Repsol said Friday.