The director of the ATF says violent crime has increased in some cities in part because local police are too cash-strapped to fight it.

Federal immigration agents in northeastern Iowa have arrested at least 300 people in a raid on the world's largest kosher meatpacking plant.

The Supreme Court says it can't intervene in an important dispute over the rights of apartheid victims to sue U.S. corporations in U.S. courts because four of the nine justices had to sit out the case over apparent conflicts.

Once a boom town of about 20,000, Picher's population had dwindled to about 800 after waste from lead and zinc mines turned the area into an environmental disaster and Superfund site.

A manhunt is on for a suspect who allegedly stabbed his girlfriend to death in Santa Rosa, then drove to her mother's home in Ukiah and assaulted her.

Governor Charlie Crist has declared a state of emergency as several wildfires burn along the state's central Atlantic coast.

Hundreds of thousands of taxpayers from legal immigrants to soldiers based abroad are missing out on the tax rebates going out to millions of others to stimulate the economy.

Tens of thousands of homes and businesses are in the dark after heavy rains.

The man is suing because he says a pilot made him give up his seat to a flight attendant and sit on the toilet for more than three hours on a flight.

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