More than a third of the contiguous United States faces a high or above average flood risk this spring, the National Weather Service says.

North Dakota and Minnesota residents along the Red River are in flood-fighting mode, filling sandbags as contractors build clay dikes to help protect homes.

Cornell University is posting staffers on bridges and making door-to-door checks in dorms after three undergrads in the last month plunged to their deaths in the Ivy League campus' spectacular gorges.

Passengers were told to shut up and ration Pringles after what was supposed to be a direct flight from Los Angeles to New York turned into a 16-hour nightmare.

A 38-year-old father of two was jogging and listening to his iPod when he was hit from behind and killed by a small plane making an emergency landing on the beach, officials say.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service hopes its third attempt at rules protecting the California red-legged frog will stick when they are published Wednesday in the Federal Register.

The FBI says the slayings in Mexico of three people with ties to the U.S. consulate may have been committed by drug cartel hit men who targeted the wrong party.

A woman who drove into a lake after a late-night party, killing her three young sons, pleads guilty  to  child endangerment after tearfully admitting she had been drinking alcohol that night.

State biologists have killed two of the wolves they believe fatally mauled a teacher who was jogging along a remote road last week.

A bus headed for Mexico carrying 40 people overturned along a southern Texas highway on Tuesday, killing at least two people and sending at least 30 people to hospitals, officials said.

An earthquake east of downtown Los Angeles rippled across Southern California's vast urban center before dawn Tuesday, jolting people awake and putting first-responders on alert.

A man accused of exposing himself to a neighbor's child fatally shot a responding police officer and was killed by backup officers, authorities said Tuesday.

Nine people on board a US Airways flight from North Carolina to Jamaica were taken to hospital after they felt sick amid a "foul odor" on the plane, officials said.

The U.S. Army is revamping its basic training regimen for the first time in 30 years by nixing five-mile runs and bayonet drills in favor of zigzag sprints and honing core muscles.

Attorney General Eric Holder tells Congress that Osama bin Laden will never face trial in the United States because he will not be captured alive.

Thieves staged a Hollywood-style heist at a pharmaceutical warehouse over the weekend and made off with about $70 million in antidepressants and other prescription drugs, authorities said Tuesday.

A federal court in Chicago says a man accused of scouting the Indian city of Mumbai before a 2008 terrorist rampage plans to change his not guilty plea.

Lawyers in Nashville have worked out a settlement after a sheriff's lieutenant ripped the grill off a man's teeth at the county jail.

A three-day rainstorm that caused flooding and ripped trees out of the soaking wet ground was among the most devastating ever to the electrical grid in some parts of the Northeast.

The co-founder of a Massachusetts supermarket chain is donating $30 million to a Boston College center established to revitalize Catholic education.