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The governor of Massachusetts is asking people not to panic as Hurricane Earl approaches.

The captain of an overcrowded Haitian boat that capsized in 2009, killing at least nine people, has been sentenced to 14 years and four months in prison.

State and federal officials have announced an agreement to remove all radioactive contamination from a partial nuclear meltdown in 1959 at a rocket testing site just outside Los Angeles.

Los Angeles County's sheriff has launched a war of words against California's medical marijuana dispensaries, saying almost all of the businesses operate as criminal enterprises.

Federal investigators have decided a suspicious fire that damaged construction equipment at the site of a future mosque in Tennessee was arson.

A new poll finds New Yorkers are conflicted about the construction of a mosque near the World Trade Center site.

Pilot error and a lack of proper warning equipment is being blamed for the 2008 crash of a University of Wisconsin Med Flight helicopter that killed three people.

A vessel has latched onto a key piece of evidence in the oil spill investigation so crews can raise the 300-ton device to the surface of the Gulf of Mexico.

The agency that oversees offshore drilling will investigate the fire on an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico.

Authorities say an airport screener spotted something suspicious in a checked back, and a police bomb squad spent hours scouring the airport.