At least 51 people, some of them children, have died. Read More

The Dakota Dunes, S.D., based company lost 80 percent of its business after the uproar over what BPI calls lean finely textured beef. Read More

The federal government is moving ahead with plans to sell a tiny island east of New York City, where experiments on dangerous animal diseases have been conducted since the 1950s. Read More

Gary Pruitt says the Justice Department's secret subpoena of reporters' phone records has made sources less willing to talk to AP journalists. Read More

A lawsuit was filed on Friday in Colorado’s U.S. District Court on behalf of 54 of the state’s sheriffs in an effort to block the laws from taking effect. Read More

Seventy-two people were sent to the hospital Friday evening after an eastbound train from New York City derailed and was hit by a westbound train. Read More

A short time after entering the home, the intruder, Dalton Smith, and a 21-year-old college junior, Andrea Rebello, were both dead. Read More

The single winner was sold at a supermarket in Zephyrhills, Fla., Read More

About 50 to 60 people suffered injuries ranging from critical to superficial during Saturday's parade in Damascus. Read More

State TV says the blast rattled the Damascus neighborhood of Ruken al-Deen late Saturday. Read More