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SAN DIEGO (AP) -- A woman charged Thursday with first-degree murder in the slaying of a Camp Pendleton Marine's wife left a suicide note before paramedics found her with self-inflicted wounds, authorities said....

SAN DIEGO (AP) -- The Navy on Thursday initiated dismissal proceedings against two Marines from a squad that killed 24 unarmed Iraqi civilians in 2005, saying they lied to military investigators after the massacre....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. military leaders clearly expressed reluctance about using American might to stop the unending violence in Syria, insisting that diplomacy remains the best option to force President Bashar Assad to end the brutal crackdown on his own people....

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- Among the items that remained after a barista's abduction from an Anchorage coffee stand were two partially made drinks on a messy counter, and money from the business was missing....

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- Among the items that remained after a barista's abduction from an Anchorage coffee stand were two partially made drinks on a messy counter, and money from the business was missing....

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) -- Kansas officials are rethinking a decision to house prison inmates in a county jail and have moved all of them back to a state facility after four escaped, including a convicted murderer, the state Department of Corrections said Thursday....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The chairman of a House committee investigating an alleged Secret Service prostitution scandal predicted more firings as key lawmakers and a top adviser to President Barack Obama expressed confidence Sunday that the agency will effectively deal with the incident....

NEW YORK (AP) -- Police and the FBI began digging up a Manhattan basement Thursday for the remains of a 6-year-old boy whose 1979 disappearance on his way to school drew helped launch a missing children's movement that put kids' faces on milk cartons....

NEW YORK (AP) -- In a videotaped deposition made public for the first time Thursday, a British man convicted in an aborted shoe-bombing mission admitted meeting with Osama bin Laden after deciding to fight jihad against the West....

NEW YORK (AP) -- In a videotaped deposition made public for the first time Thursday, a British man convicted in an aborted shoe-bombing mission admitted meeting with Osama bin Laden after deciding to fight jihad against the West....

SAN DIEGO (AP) -- A woman found with a suicide note pleaded not guilty Thursday to first-degree murder in the slaying of a Camp Pendleton Marine's wife, as prosecutors remained quiet about a possible motive or link between the two people who lived a mile apart in a small town....

NEW YORK (AP) -- A federal judge threw out charges Thursday against a man who urged jurors in multiple East Coast cities from Florida to New Hampshire to sometimes disregard the law and vote their conscience....

NEW YORK (AP) -- A federal judge threw out charges Thursday against a man who urged jurors in multiple East Coast cities from Florida to New Hampshire to sometimes disregard the law and vote their conscience....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans rammed an election-year, $46 billion tax cut for most of America's employers through the House on Thursday, ignoring a White House veto threat in a debate both parties used to show voters how they would bolster the economy....

ATLANTA (AP) -- Last year was the worst year for measles in the U.S. in 15 years, health officials said Thursday....

ATLANTA (AP) -- Last year was the worst year for measles in the U.S. in 15 years, health officials said Thursday....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Roger Clemens perjury retrial could turn into an ad hoc forum on the general problem of drug use in baseball, depending on the outcome of the latest lawyers' spat over the landmark congressional hearing that eventually landed the seven-time Cy Young Award winner in court....

CLEVELAND (AP) -- Sixteen men and women have pleaded not guilty in beard- and hair-cutting attacks against fellow Amish in Ohio....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans rammed an election-year, $46 billion tax cut for most of America's employers through the House on Thursday, ignoring a White House veto threat in a debate both parties used to show voters how they would bolster the economy....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Senate panel divided along party lines Thursday to approve legislation funding President Barack Obama's health care and financial services overhaul laws and boosting spending on the IRS and Pell Grants for low-income college students....