DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. -- Authorities say the brutal beating of a 15-year-old girl at a Florida middle school was triggered by a text message dispute between the victim and a teenage boy.
MINNEAPOLIS -- Federal safety officials are recommending better communication procedures after reviewing the Northwest Airlines flight that overshot the Minneapolis airport last year by more than 100 miles.
CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Celebrity Cruises is bringing dozens of additional workers to Charleston, S.C., to clean a cruise liner that was hit by an outbreak of intestinal illness for a third straight trip.
WASHINGTON -- The government is announcing a recall of some 1.2 million high chairs, saying they pose a fall hazard to children.
SEATTLE -- A sheriff's spokesman says there's a "strong probability" that the child's body found washed up on an island in Puget Sound is that of an 8-year-old Washington state boy who went missing with his mother last weekend.
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, N.J. -- A prosecutor is trying to determine if a racial comment made over the public-address system at a New Jersey Walmart store amounts to a bias crime.
SANTIAGO, Chile -- A U.S. seismologist says Chileans will continue to feel aftershocks from last month's megaquake for a year or longer.
PHILADELPHIA -- A Pennsylvania woman accused of trolling the Internet as "Jihad Jane" is denying that she planned to kill a Swedish artist or agreed to marry a terrorism suspect to help him get travel documents.
CENTRAL FALLS, RI -- A union is condemning an effigy of President Barack Obama that was hung upside down by a teacher at a failing Rhode Island high school where he and all his colleagues were fired.
ATLANTA -- Health officials faced with meager supplies of swine flu vaccine last fall sent doses to some surprising places: cruise ship lines, Wall Street firms and the Johnson Space Center.
SEATTLE -- Authorities in Washington state say a shoe that washed up on a Puget Sound beach over the weekend probably belonged to the woman who apparently abandoned a van on the beach and disappeared with her 8-year-old son.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- A resort hotel on Dubai's main palm-shaped island says it has released back into the wild a whale shark whose captivity had been criticized by environmentalists.
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama has signed into law a package of tax breaks and spending designed to give the nation a jobs boost.
WASHINGTON -- Congressional budget scorekeepers say President Barack Obama's health care bill would reduce the federal deficit by $138 billion over 10 years.
NEW YORK -- Viacom and YouTube likely will be forced to expose business secrets and other previously confidential information Thursday when reams of court documents are expected to be unsealed.
INDIANAPOLIS -- The U.S. Marine Corps' investigation of the February death of an Indiana Marine in Afghanistan concludes he was fatally shot when an Afghan security contractor fired at a group of Marines.
SEATTLE -- The online-only successor to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer is celebrating its first birthday.
BOISE, Idaho -- Idaho took the lead in a growing, nationwide fight against health care overhaul Wednesday when its governor became the first to sign a measure requiring the state attorney general to sue the federal government if residents are forced to buy health insurance.
WASHINGTON -- Rep. Dennis Kucinich says he will support President Barack Obama's health care overhaul bill when the House considers it.
PHILADELPHIA -- A federal appeals court has ruled that a Pennsylvania prosecutor may not pursue felony charges against a teenage girl in a "sexting" case.
