A lawyer for one of the five men facing trial for the Sept. 11 attacks says the men plan to plead not guilty and use the trial venue to express their political views.

A small amount of radiation has been detected in a reactor building at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in central Pennsylvania.

A convicted killer who is seeking a taxpayer-funded sex-change operation is again asking a judge to approve electrolysis treatments.

A teen sex magazine will stay on the shelves at the Ames Public Library despite a petition signed by more than 100 parents objecting to the publication.

A vacant house in Shreveport that served as the backdrop for four homicides in two years had been reduced to a mound of rubble by city order.

A cruise ship passenger was rescued from the ocean about 20 miles southeast of Miami after he fell overboard.

A Macon area third-grader was suspended from school after he pointed a toy gun at a parent while walking home from school Thursday.

On a recent Tuesday night, Anchorage police sergeant Dennis Allen came upon a familiar face at a bus stop. It was Paul, one of Anchorage's 400 or so homeless alcoholics who chronically get drunk in public.

An Avon Park woman died after her sport utility vehicle struck a wild hog and flipped over.

Fire officials say an infant was hurt when part of a ceiling collapsed over a crib at home in Erie.