(9/8/2010) A proposed Islamic community center near ground zero will include separate prayer spaces for Muslims, Christians, Jews and people of other faiths, the imam behind plans for the facility wrote in...  

(9/8/2010) Demonstrators pelted police for a second night in a poor immigrant neighborhood following the fatal shooting of a Guatemalan day laborer who allegedly threatened people with a knife and then tur...  

(9/8/2010) More regions of the country reported slower growth as the U.S. economy lost momentum in the late summer.  

(9/8/2010) A woman who was robbed of $310 while sitting at a Seattle traffic light gave police a detailed description of the man who stuck a gun in her open window.  

(9/8/2010) A federal judge has declined to lift a stay of execution for an Oklahoma man whose lethal injection was put on hold because the state ran out of one of the drugs used in the procedure. ...  

(9/8/2010) An accused Somali pirate has pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy from a November 2008 attack in the Gulf of Aden on a Danish ship carrying cargo from a U.S. company.  

(9/8/2010) Critics of the Flight 93 National Memorial insist Islamic symbols still exist in the planned honorary to the 40 passengers and crew who died while challenging terrorist hijackers en route to Washington on Sept. 11, 2001.  

(9/8/2010) The top two national security advisers in President Barack Obama's Cabinet on Wednesday denounced plans by a small church in Florida to burn the Muslim holy book to commemorate the Sept. 11, 200...  

(9/8/2010) The turtle rescue effort at NASA's Kennedy Space Center is winding down.  

(9/8/2010) A lawyer for the family of a slain Yale University graduate student says they are considering suing the school over its hiring of the suspect and the way Yale officials looked into her disappear...  

(9/8/2010) A water main break at NASA's spaceport put launch preparations on temporary hold Wednesday for the next-to-last shuttle flight.  

(9/8/2010) A police officer in Rhode Island who raped a woman in an empty police substation has been sentenced to 40 years in prison.  

(9/8/2010) An animal-welfare group believes workers at a North Carolina research lab abused dogs, cats and rabbits, and the activists released what they said was undercover video of caretakers handling the...  

(9/8/2010) Authorities are searching for eight people who have not been accounted for as a wildfire tore through their neighborhoods this week.  

(9/8/2010) A 90-year-old western New York man has been sentenced to 17 1/2 years in prison for battering his wife of nearly 68 years to death with a hammer.  

(9/8/2010) The California Highway Patrol says a murder suspect who led police on a high-speed chase last week strangled his girlfriend during the pursuit.  

(9/8/2010) If Canada makes good on its promise to shutter a little-used border post between Montana and Saskatchewan, there may be no choice but to close the U.S. side, even in the middle of an $8.5 millio...  

(9/8/2010) In a move that stunned parishioners, the Boston Archdiocese shut down a Quincy church last weekend, five years after it was allowed to remain open as a chapel.  

(9/8/2010) The lead BP PLC investigator is saying that eight separate failures had to occur for the company's deepwater well to unleash the largest offshore oil spill in history.  

(9/8/2010) First it was Bennies, then Shoobies. Now there's another derogatory nickname for summer tourists who visit the Jersey shore: FOOTs.