Seats are at a premium on planes and trains out of the nation's capital which is still blanketed in snow since a weekend blizzard dropped more than two feet of snow on the metro area.
Los Angeles County authorities have ordered mandatory evacuations for more than 500 homes in mudslide-prone foothill neighborhoods as a new storm approaches.
A town fire official in Connecticut says fewer than 50 people have been injured an explosion at a power plant under construction. Multiple people have died, but officials say they don't know how many.
Former NFL star Warren Sapp has been released from jail on $1,500 bond, a day after being arrested in Miami Beach on charges he choked a woman in his hotel room.
A Shiite militant group in Iraq has posted an Internet video showing an American it says it abducted and who appears to be a contractor reported missing by the U.S. military.
A small plane clipped the towline of another plane pulling a glider Saturday, sparking a fiery midair crash in Colorado and killing three people, authorities said.
A judge has declared that a former aide to John Edwards is in contempt, demanding that he turn over a "personal" videotape being sought by Edwards' former mistress.
Prosecutors say they're investigating a case in which several Colorado middle school students distributed a text message photo of a nude 12-year-old girl.
A Haitian attorney says 10 Americans detained in Haiti for trying to take 33 children out of the country after the Jan. 12 earthquake have been charged with child kidnapping.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates declined to say Tuesday whether he thinks it's appropriate to try self-proclaimed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a New York civilian court, not far from the site of the attack.
A massive new federal study documents an unprecedented and dramatic decrease in incidents of serious child abuse, especially sexual abuse. Experts hailed the findings as proof that crackdowns and public awareness campaigns had made headway.
The Air Force says a missile-intercept test failed when a long-range missile launched from California missed a target missile launched from a Pacific island
Despite a week of heavy rain on mountains stripped dangerously bare by wildfires, thousands of homes have so far been spared from deluges of mud and rocks by a network of sprawling basins that act as huge bathtubs to safely catch debris.
Workers are carving out mass graves on a hillside north of Haiti's capital, using earth-movers to bury 10,000 people in a single day even as relief workers warn that Haitians are still dying of injuries from the Jan. 12 quake for lack of medical care.
Former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards has finally come forward to admit that he fathered a child with a videographer that he hired before his second White House bid.