PHILADELPHIA — A 19-year-old daycare worker was charged in the abduction of a 5-year-old girl from her Philadelphia elementary school, an arrest aided by the little girl’s report to police that … more

NEW YORK — More than 8,000 New York City school bus drivers and aides went on strike over job protection Wednesday morning, leaving some 152,000 students, many disabled, trying to find other ways … more

BOSTON — Eli Lilly and Co. failed to test a drug's effect on fetuses before promoting it as a way to prevent miscarriages, a lawyer charged Tuesday in opening statements in a trial over whether … more

Details on how the $50.5 billion package of recovery and related aid for victims of Superstorm Sandy and other federally declared disasters is to be spent: —$16 billion for Housing and Urban … more

LANDER, Wyo.— Police and deputies have arrested a man accused of firing multiple shots into a pickup south of Lander. KOVE radio in Lander reports no one was injured in the shooting on Thursday. … more

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — A New Mexico man has pleaded not guilty to felony charges including arson and conspiracy in connection with the 2010 fire that heavily damaged a landmark hotel in Cheyenne. U.S. … more

MIDLAND CITY, Ala. — This town of 2,400 nestled amid peanut farms and cotton fields has long relied on a strong Christian faith, a policy of "love thy neighbor," and the power of group … more

CONCORD, N.H.— A lawyer says research done by one of two major oil companies on trial in New Hampshire concluded decades ago that the additive MTBE should not be added to gasoline because it could … more

CAIRO — The video outraged Egyptians, showing riot police strip and beat a middle-aged man and drag him across the pavement as they cracked down on protesters. The follow-up was even more … more

JOHANNESBURG — The chime sounds every four minutes on the radio station, reminding listeners that statistically yet another child or woman in South Africa is being raped.It's also a call to … more