More than 150 years ago, John Sutter touched off the fabled Gold Rush when he found gold near his mill in 1849. But the prospectors who flocked to the Sierra foothills left plenty of gold in the...

BOSTON (AP) — The surviving Boston Marathon bombings suspect has been released from a civilian hospital and transferred to a federal medical detention center in central Massachusetts.

SCHAUMBURG, Illinois (AP) — A rare century-old U.S. nickel that was once mistakenly declared a fake has sold at auction for more than $3.1 million.

THE LEE COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT IS INVESTIGATING THE CIRCUMSTANCES SURROUNDING A DECAPITATED DOG A PASSERBY FOUND YESTERDAY(THUR) ALONG THE RAILROAD TRACKS NEAR THE PAW ANIMAL SHELTER IN FORT MADISON. 

FOUR BURLINGTON MEN ARE FACING FEDERAL DRUG CHARGES, AFTER A JOINT, YEAR-LONG INVESTIGATION UNCOVERED NUMEROUS SALES OF VARIOUS FORMS OF COCAINE, IN BURLINGTON AND MT. PLEASANT.

MACOMB, Ill. (AP) — Western Illinois University says it is toughening its admissions standards.

The daughter of Cuba President Raul Castro cannot visit Philadelphia to receive an award for her gay rights activism because the State Department has denied her permission to travel there, officials said Thursday. Mariela Castro had been...

With flight delays mounting, the Senate approved hurry-up legislation Thursday night to end air traffic controller furloughs blamed for inconveniencing large numbers of travelers. A House vote on the measure was expected as early as Friday, with...