Sept. 30, 2015: A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter hovers over as first responders take part in a mass-rescue exercise centering around a mock airliner crash-landing in the sea near Ocean Beach, Calif. (Reuters) Two 17-year-old boys, who were swept out to sea Saturday while playing in the surf at San Fra...

Ted Cruz on Saturday won all 14 delegates in the Wyoming GOP convention -- a relatively small number but enough for the Texas senator to declare victory and keep GOP presidential front-ru er Donald Trump from securing the nomination. “We are likely to have a battle in Cleveland to decide who is the ...

April 16, 2016: Police officers stand next to a collapsed overpass in Guayaquil, Ecuador. (AP) QUITO, Ecuador – The strongest earthquake to hit Ecuador in decades flattened buildings and buckled highways along its Pacific coast, sending the Andean nation into a state of emergency. As rescue workers ...

Nov. 18, 2011: University of Califo ia, Davis Police Lt. John Pike uses pepper spray to move Occupy UC Davis protesters while blocking their exit from the school's quad in Davis, Calif. (AP Photo/The Enterprise, Wayne Tilcock, File) A group that represents 240,000 University of Califo ia students st...

The man who police say shot and killed a Maryland firefighter who was performing a welfare check Friday at the man's home outside Washington, D.C., was released from custody without charges late Saturday. The Prince George's County Police Department has not yet identified the man, who they say kille...

In this April 4, 2016, file photo, retired WNBA player Sheryl Swoopes speaks during the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame class of 2016 a ouncement in Houston, Texas. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) Loyola University is launching an investigation into allegations the coach of the women’s baske...

Father Rene Robert was last seen Sunday, April 10. (St Johns County Sheriff's Office) Police in Jacksonville, Florida, on Saturday launched a large scale search for a missing priest, according to reports. Father Rene Robert, 71, of the Diocese of St. Augustine, was last seen Sunday April 10 and auth...

Father Rene Robert was last seen Sunday, April 10. (St Johns County Sheriff's Office) Police in Jacksonville, Florida, on Saturday launched a large scale search for a missing priest, according to reports. Father Rene Robert, 71, of the Diocese of St. Augustine, was last seen Sunday April 10 and auth...

April 16, 2016: An hotel barely stands after an earthquake in the town of Manta, Ecuador. (AP) QUITO, Ecuador – A powerful, 7.8-magnitude earthquake shook Ecuador's central coast on Saturday, killing at least 41 people and spreading panic hundreds of miles away as it collapsed homes and buckled a ma...

A Russian fighter jet flew dangerously close to a U.S. reco aissance aircraft on Thursday in the latest military provocation by Moscow over the Baltic Sea, the U.S. European Command said Saturday. The U.S. aircraft, a militarized Boeing 707 jet, was operating in inte ational airspace and at no time ...

Ted Cruz on Saturday won all 14 delegates in the Wyoming GOP convention -- a relatively small number but enough for the Texas senator to declare victory and keep GOP presidential front-ru er Donald Trump from securing the nomination. “We are likely to have a battle in Cleveland to decide who is the ...

A Russian fighter jet flew dangerously close to a U.S. reco aissance aircraft on Thursday in the latest military provocation by Moscow over the Baltic Sea, the U.S. European Command said Saturday. The U.S. aircraft, a militarized Boeing 707 jet, was operating in inte ational airspace and at no time ...

Ted Cruz on Saturday won all 14 delegates in the Wyoming GOP convention -- a relatively small number but enough for the Texas senator to declare victory and keep GOP presidential front-ru er Donald Trump from securing the nomination. “We are likely to have a battle in Cleveland to decide who is the ...

July 28, 2015: Reference librarian Marlayna Christensen reads to children Dr. Seuss' new book "What Pet Should I Get?" at the University of Califo ia San Diego's Geisel Library in San Diego. (Reuters) A Michigan judge told a couple Thursday they could get up to 93 days in jail and face a maximum $50...

A Maryland firefighter was shot and killed and another wounded when they went to a suburban Washington home Friday on a call for help and the person inside opened fire, officials said. Prince George’s County Police Department spokeswoman Julie Parker identified the deceased fireman as John Ulmschnei...

CASPER, Wyo. – Wyoming Republicans gathering this weekend to pick 14 delegates they’ll send to the national convention might register as a blip on the presidential race radar – especially with all eyes on Tuesday’s New York primary – but another Ted Cruz win could re-ignite Donald Trump’s flame-thro...

Authorities said Friday that human remains sanitation workers found in a Seattle neighborhood are likely those of a woman killed by a man who dumped some of her other body parts in a recycling bin last weekend. The workers found the remains in waste container in front of a house in the same neighbor...

A veteran Florida zookeeper known as "the tiger whisperer" died Friday after she was mauled by one of the big cats in her care. Stacey Konwiser, 38, was pronounced dead at St. Mary's Medical Center in West Palm Beach, where she had been rushed after the incident at around 1:45 p.m. local time. Palm ...

CASPER, Wyo. – Wyoming Republicans gathering this weekend to pick 14 delegates they’ll send to the national convention might register as a blip on the presidential race radar – especially with all eyes on Tuesday’s New York primary – but another Ted Cruz win could re-ignite Donald Trump’s flame-thro...

Pope Francis on Saturday took 12 Syrian refugees, all of them Muslim, back with him to the Vatican after an emotional and provocative trip to Greece. The three families, including six children, boarded the papal jet after the pope’s visit to a refugee detention center on the Greek island of Lesbos. ...