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Snow, wind and slush hounded eastern commuters Wednesday as blizzard warnings from Baltimore to New York City heralded the second major storm in a region already blanketed by historic weekend snowfalls Read More

Newly released aerial photos of the Sept. 11, 2001, World Trade Center attack show the towers coming down from a dramatic new angle. Read More

A Wyoming man charged with carrying out an Internet-arranged rape has pleaded not guilty to five felonies. Read More

Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich heads to court Wednesday to answer a revised batch of charges that he schemed to sell or trade President Barack Obama's old Senate seat and swap official favors for campaign money. Read More

A small pre-dawn earthquake has hit northern Illinois, startling residents as far away as Michigan and Iowa, but no damage or injuries were immediately reported. Read More

Snow was expected to persist over the Midwest and New England on Wednesday as a strong winter storm continued tracking through the country. Read More

Family members, investigators, clergy and even a psychic have spent weeks testifying in a northern Illinois courtroom _ and Drew Peterson's murder trial hasn't even started. Read More

A Democratic state senator who betrayed his colleagues by joining Republicans in a brief coup and was convicted of a misdemeanor assault charge for dragging his girlfriend around during an argument at his apartment says he'll go back to court to fight his expulsion from the Senate. Read More

A man representing himself in a serial murder trial in Southern California has finished presenting his case to jurors, culminating with a video clip of himself from an episode of "The Dating Game" that he claims proves his innocence. Read More

The San Diego County Medical Examiner's Office has identified two bodies found near the border with Mexico as siblings who drowned when their vehicle was swept away in Tijuana by last month's torrential rains. Read More

When Ronald "Loony" Barron urged a young graffiti tagger to put away his paint cans, he was doing what he viewed as his mission _ steering kids away from crime _ but he paid for it with his life. Read More

New York Gov. David Paterson, defying calls from even fellow Democrats to drop out of the race for a full term, said Tuesday that he would leave only if the voters turned him out through the ballot box, or he's carried out "in a box." Read More

One pedestrian is dead and another seriously injured following separate accidents in San Francisco involving city-owned vehicles. Read More

A jury has convicted a 23-year-old California man of killing his girlfriend's 1-year-old son. Read More

A grand jury declined Tuesday to indict a Muslim chaplain accused of trying to smuggle razor blades and scissors into a jail, spurring his release without bail while the case continues. Read More

The head of UNICEF warned Tuesday that people may still be trying to smuggle children out of Haiti and said protecting youngsters who survived the earthquake is the top concern of the U.N. children's agency. Read More

The convicted killer of a Kansas abortion provider has little sympathy for the family of his victim, comparing them to the relatives of a hit man in a recording posted online. Read More

The Homeland Security Department estimates the number of illegal immigrants living in the U.S. fell about 7 percent to 10.8 million in January 2009. Read More

Authorities have arrested a California man who they say was teaching a sixth-grader how to drive when his car crashed into another vehicle, killing the boy, his mother and younger sister. Read More

Rep. John Murtha's family says the late congressman will be buried in the heart of the Pennsylvania district he represented for nearly 40 years. Read More