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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- The son of Malcolm X's biographer is asking Syracuse University to hand over a letter in which the slain activist writes about his shifting views on race relations, claiming his family is the rightful owner....

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California's specialty-license-plate program has raised roughly $250 million for a variety of popular causes, from promoting the arts to preserving Lake Tahoe. Yet there is virtually no independent oversight of how organizations spend the money.

Groups participating in the program must report annually to the state Department ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California's specialty-license-plate program has raised roughly $250 million for a variety of popular causes, from promoting the arts to preserving Lake Tahoe. Yet there is virtually no independent oversight of how organizations spend the money.

Groups participating in the program must report annually to the state Department ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The troubled San Onofre nuclear power plant operated for three decades with equipment that might have temporarily cut off the plant's emergency power supply in the event of an earthquake, government filings revealed Tuesday....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The troubled San Onofre nuclear power plant operated for three decades with equipment that might have temporarily cut off the plant's emergency power supply in the event of an earthquake, government filings revealed Tuesday....

NEW YORK (AP) -- Pedro Hernandez has confessed to killing the 6-year-old boy at the heart of one of the nation's most prominent missing-child cases, police say. And he has schizophrenia and a history of hallucinations, his lawyer says....

NEW YORK (AP) -- Pedro Hernandez has confessed to killing the 6-year-old boy at the heart of one of the nation's most prominent missing-child cases, police say. And he has schizophrenia and a history of hallucinations, his lawyer says....

ATLANTA — Maryland is one of another eight states gaining flexibility from the Bush-era No Child Left Behind law, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Tuesday.

The Education Department also has approved waivers for Connecticut, Delaware, Louisiana, New York, North Carolina, Ohio and Rhode Island. Eighteen other states and Washington, D.C., ...

ATLANTA — Maryland is one of another eight states gaining flexibility from the Bush-era No Child Left Behind law, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Tuesday.

The Education Department also has approved waivers for Connecticut, Delaware, Louisiana, New York, North Carolina, Ohio and Rhode Island. Eighteen other states and Washington, D.C., ...

MIAMI (AP) -- It is being called one of this city's goriest crimes: A naked man was on top of another nude man along a busy highway, biting into the man's face, tearing it to pieces. A police officer arrived to help, but the mauler growled at him and continued to chew away, stopping only when he was shot to death....

MIAMI (AP) -- It is being called one of this city's goriest crimes: A naked man was on top of another nude man along a busy highway, biting into the man's face, tearing it to pieces. A police officer arrived to help, but the mauler growled at him and continued to chew away, stopping only when he was shot to death....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- It took 24 witnesses over 19 days of testimony for prosecutors to make their case against Roger Clemens, with three jurors and two minor pieces of the indictment dismissed by the time they were done. With the overlong-running trial now in its seventh week and Clemens' lawyers starting to take their turn, the case remains centered on the credibility of one person - Brian McNamee....

PLANO — Los Angeles police are entitled to audio recordings of conversations between a Manson family member and his attorney, a Texas judge ruled Tuesday.

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Brenda T. Rhoades of Plano granted the request, allowing police to obtain the eight cassette tapes containing hours of talks between Charles ...

PLANO — Los Angeles police are entitled to audio recordings of conversations between a Manson family member and his attorney, a Texas judge ruled Tuesday.

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Brenda T. Rhoades of Plano granted the request, allowing police to obtain the eight cassette tapes containing hours of talks between Charles ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- Two lightning-sparked blazes that merged in a mountainous southwestern New Mexico forest are close to becoming the largest wildfire in state history, fire officials said Tuesday....

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- More than 1,200 firefighters are battling the nation's largest wildfire that has charred acre after acre of timber and brush in rugged mountains and canyons of southwestern New Mexico, shrouding parts of the region in smoke....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sketching impressive contributions to society in intensely personal terms, President Barack Obama presented the Medal of Freedom to more than a dozen political and cultural greats Tuesday, including rocker Bob Dylan, astronaut John Glenn and novelist Toni Morrison....

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Isaac Lamb acknowledges that his five-minute, block-long choreographed build-up to a marriage proposal has upped the stakes for everyone who follows....

NEW YORK (AP) -- Pedro Hernandez has confessed to killing the 6-year-old boy at the heart of one of the nation's most prominent missing-child cases, police say. And he has schizophrenia and a history of hallucinations, his lawyer says....

DETROIT (AP) -- A woman gave birth to a boy Tuesday during an emergency cesarean section, hours before her former boyfriend was charged with attempted murder in a bizarre plot to have her killed allegedly because he didn't want to have another child....