DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A Republican senator has introduced legislation that would begin the process of referring a constitutional ban on gay marriage to Iowa voters.

GALESBURG, Ill. (AP) — The former director of the Orpheum Theatre in Galesburg has been charged with sexually abusing a 16-year-old boy who was seeking a role in a theater production.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Air traffic controllers are warning that automatic spending cuts could force some of the nation’s busiest airports to close runways, causing widespread flight delays and cancellations.

The Navy is investigating the deaths of two sailors during a diving operation at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland, the second deadly incident at a deep pond there in the past month. Officials say the divers died...

Two men went taken to a hospital when their sailboat ran aground on a north Florida beach after spending days drifting without power. Officials say 86-year-old Francis Saunders and 71-year-old Jerry Willis were heading to Grand Bahama...

A male nurse in southern New Jersey is being tried on charges he sexually assaulted a quadriplegic man in his care and videotaped the incident. The Burlington County Times reports that 43-year-old Steven Young is claiming the...

Connecticut state police are calling the shooting deaths of a woman and her two young grandchildren a double murder-suicide and say she had permission to pick them up from their daycare. State police spokesman Lt. J. Paul...

New Jersey’s infamous “Tan Mom” escaped charges of child endangerment Tuesday for allegedly treating her 5-year-old daughter to a session at a Garden State tanning salon, The New York Post reported. A grand jury in Essex County,...