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HARTFORD, Conn. — The mild winter that has given many Northern farmers a break from shoveling and a welcome chance to catch up on maintenance could lead to a tough spring as many pests that would normally freeze have not.

Winters are usually what one agriculture specialist calls a "reset ...

NEW YORK — A group of expert hackers who attacked governments and corporations around the globe has been busted after its ringleader — one of the world's most-wanted and most-feared computer vandals — turned against his comrades and secretly became an informant for the FBI months ago, authorities said Tuesday.

WASHINGTON — More than 70 percent of students involved in school-related arrests or cases referred to law enforcement were Hispanic or African-American, according to an Education Department report that raises questions about whether students of all races are disciplined evenhandedly in America's schools.

Black students are more than three times ...

ANALYSIS/OPINION:

Barack Obama is obsessed with words, and he never learned to make a short speech. The Israelis understand that, however well-meaning he may be. The president may even believe most of the stuff he hears himself say.

Mr. Obama made another pretty speech to the American Israel Public Affairs ...

INDIANAPOLIS — An Indiana woman who saved her two children by binding them together with a blanket and shielding them with her body as a tornado ripped apart their house lost parts of both her legs, which were crushed by the falling debris, her husband says.

Stephanie Decker, a 36-year-old ...

In the simmering battle over abortion and mental-health problems, a reproductive-health organization says a published study linking the two has been "decisively debunked," while the lead author of the study says her findings still stand.

The mental-health issue is relevant because at least 35 states require women seeking abortions to ...

CRANSTON — Officials at a Rhode Island public high school have taken down a prayer banner that a federal judge ordered removed.

The state affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union, which sued over the banner's constitutionality, says the display at Cranston West High School has been permanently removed.

Executive ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Fliers can stop sharpening their elbows. Overhead bins are getting bigger.

Packed planes and a high volume of carry-ons are forcing airlines to expand the space above passengers' heads. United and Delta are the latest airlines to replace or upgrade bins so they hold more luggage. And engineers ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A judge has cleared the way for an Alabama county to move forward with the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history, overruling Wall Street claims that state law didn't allow the county to file the case.

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Thomas Bennett issued his order late Sunday, allowing ...

WILLOW, Alaska — To a rousing send-off from fans, dozens of teams took to the trail for the start of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, embarking on a near thousand-mile journey through the Alaskan wilderness.

The 66 mushers and their dog teams will spend roughly eight days trying to ...

SALEM, Ind. — A 15-month-old Indiana girl who clung to life for two days after being tossed by a tornado that killed her parents and two siblings has been buried with her family.

An American flag hung at half-staff as relatives of Angel Babcock gathered Monday in a snow-covered cemetery ...

CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. — Jury selection began Monday in a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the parents of two Virginia Tech students killed during a campus rampage nearly five years ago.

The trial is being held in Montgomery County Circuit Court in Christianburg. University officials will be asked to defend their ...

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) — A former Rutgers University student accused of using a webcam to spy on his roommate's intimate encounter with another man told his friends he was hosting a "viewing party" with beer and rum to watch the dorm-room liaison, a high school friend testified Monday.

The ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Fifteen-month-old Angel Babcock seemed to be the miracle survivor of a deadly tornado that killed her parents and two siblings when she arrived Friday night at Kosair Children's Hospital in Louisville, Ky. Though critically injured when the twister scooped her up and deposited her in a field, ...

NEW YORK — The New York Mets' owners must pay up to $83 million to the trustee recovering money for Bernard Madoff investors, a judge said Monday, though he expressed doubt that the trustee will succeed in proving at a trial this month that he's entitled to as much as ...

WILLOW, Alaska (AP) — To a rousing send-off from fans, dozens of dog-sled teams took to the trail for the start of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, embarking on a near thousand-mile journey through the Alaskan wilderness.

The 66 mushers and their dog teams will spend roughly eight days ...

NEW YORK — The narrator of "The Third Jihad," a documentary that uses dramatic footage to warn against the dangers of radical Islam, is speaking at a rally Monday to support the New York Police Department's aggressive counterterrorism efforts, even though city officials have disavowed the film.

Dr. Zuhdi Jasser ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A judge has cleared the way for an Alabama county to move forward with the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history, overruling Wall Street claims that state law didn't allow the county to file the case.

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Thomas E. Bennett issued his order late Sunday, ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Two small, back-to-back earthquakes shook residents of the San Francisco Bay Area awake Monday morning but appeared to leave no serious damage or injury.

The U.S. Geological Survey reported that a magnitude-2.9 quake struck at 5:33 a.m. about eight miles northeast of San Francisco in the city of El ...