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CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. (AP) -- A Virginia Tech police detective who responded to the first two killings on campus five years ago testified Wednesday she believed the slayings were isolated and other students were not at risk....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The largest solar flare in five years is racing toward Earth, threatening to unleash a torrent of charged particles that could disrupt power grids, GPS and airplane flights....

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Police say an Oregon woman who worked as a nursing assistant took photos of dying patients at a nursing home and posted them on her Facebook page with demeaning comments....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- FBI Director Robert Mueller said Wednesday that terrorists may seek to train their own recruits or hire outsiders with an eye toward pursuing cyber attacks on the United States....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney said Wednesday he's "prepared to fight all the way" to become the Republican presidential nominee after padding his delegate count on Super Tuesday. Supporters of his chief rival, Rick Santorum, tried to elbow Newt Gingrich out of the race in an effort to give conservatives a clear alternative to the GOP front-runner....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. commanders say there are no plans to turn the Afghan war over to CIA control after 2014, with special operations answering to American intelligence officials....

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- A former Rutgers University student convicted of using a webcam to spy on his gay roommate will not be deported to his native India, federal immigration authorities said Monday....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama has met with Libya's prime minister at the White House ahead of the nation's June elections in a post-Moammar Gadhafi world....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Defense Secretary Leon Panetta pushed back on Wednesday against fresh demands for U.S. military involvement in Syria to end President Bashar Assad's deadly crackdown on his people....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration seized Tuesday on Russia's endorsement of Kofi Annan's mediation efforts in Syria as a positive step toward international unity, even if the decision fails to resolve a fundamental disagreement between the Kremlin and the West....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- As Mitt Romney reflects on his showing on Super Tuesday, he might sneak a peek at clips of President Barack Obama's news conference performance hours earlier. It was an object lesson about the power of incumbency and about the challenge facing Romney while his own party foes still nip at his heels....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The nation's top military leader said Wednesday that U.S. armed forces would be ready if called upon to get involved in Syria, but he raised serious concerns about outside extremists and the fate of Syria's chemical and biological weapons....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney said Wednesday he's "prepared to fight all the way" to become the Republican presidential nominee after a strong showing on the biggest night of the GOP presidential primary season. But Rick Santorum demonstrated enough political muscle on Super Tuesday to ensure that there's more convulsion ahead as Republicans struggle to settle on a candidate to take on President Barack Obama....

NEW YORK (AP) -- The attorney for a mother of four who is accused of operating a high-class Manhattan brothel says he never asked her about a so-called black book....

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Watching 40 judges in white lab coats nibble on cheese and then spit the samples into garbage cans might not sound like an elegant evening to most people, but hundreds of cheese lovers have paid $25 each for a close-up view of Wednesday's World Championship Cheese Contest finals....

HOUSTON (AP) -- Investors taken in by Texas tycoon R. Allen Stanford expressed relief and a sense of vindication after a federal jury convicted the jet-setting financier of swindling them out of more than $7 billion. But they said the verdict will never replace the loss of their life savings....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- More scientists are getting closer in the search for the "God particle" of physics that would help explain the fundamentals of the universe, but they haven't found it yet....

NEW YORK (AP) -- An Internet outlaw's decision to go to work for the FBI poured light on a secretive world where young computer experts caused havoc and where authorities say a Chicago man and others celebrated their successes as they stole hundreds of thousands of dollars with stolen credit card numbers....

NEW YORK (AP) -- An Internet outlaw's decision to go to work for the FBI poured light on a secretive world where young computer experts caused havoc and where authorities say a Chicago man and others celebrated their successes as they stole hundreds of thousands of dollars with stolen credit card numbers....

NEW YORK (AP) -- An Internet outlaw's decision to go to work for the FBI poured light on a secretive world where young computer experts caused havoc and where authorities say a Chicago man and others celebrated their successes as they stole hundreds of thousands of dollars with stolen credit card numbers....