Black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. says he will accept President Barack Obama's invitation to visit him at the White House.

For the second time in a week, Taliban fighters armed with suicide vests and automatic weapons have attacked a provincial capital in eastern Afghanistan.

Motorists in Longview say they see more people standing on street corners begging for money or food, more commonly called pan-handling.

An Upshur county man is sentenced to prison, for his part in a motorcycle crash that killed his passenger.

Authorities found the horses infested with parasites and overgrown hooves when they raided the 3-Strikes Mustang Ranch in Nebraska in April.

The Mavs reportedly gave journeyman Drew Gooden the bulk of their midlevel exception to fill the void left by Brandon Bass' departure.

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Arlington police are looking for witnesses to the city's 21st traffic fatality of 2009. According to police reports of witness accounts, the driver of a Honda Accord was traveling eastbound at up to 100 miles per hour at about 6:15

A Coral Gable attorney representing several South Florida families who are owed more than a billion dollars from the government of Cuba in "wrongful death" settlements thinks he's come up with a way to get the money go after the

Opa Locka police are looking for a man who robbed a couple at gunpoint last week stealing among other thing the ashes of their baby. Last Wednesday 23-year-old Janie Brunson and her boyfriend Shaun Bolton were waiting at a bust

Grab your tickle sticks then get the drawn butter and those lobster bibs ready. Florida's two-day lobster mini-season, dubbed Florida's undeclared midsummer state holiday, runs from 12:01 a.m. Wednesday July 29th to midnight Thursday July 30th.

A crew of the space shuttle Endeavour and the guests aboard the international space station are breathing a little easier now that an air purifier on the orbiting platform has been repaired. The carbon dioxide removal system on the U.S.

Miami Police are searching for an armed man suspected of carjacking another man who had a two-year-old child and the child's grandmother in the car. The incident occurred as the man filled air in his tires just before 3 p.m.

Police have not said if foul play is suspected after the body of a man was found inside his north Miami-Dade home. Neighbors told CBS4 the last time they saw Roberto Melendez was about two weeks ago when he was

Described as feisty and plainspoken, the contentious former Florida Senate President Jim King who became a vocal critic of his own Republican Party during the right-to-die case involving Terri Schiavo died Sunday. He had been battling pancreatic cancer. He was

While lighting may never strike in the same place twice, when it comes to two places in the same city, all bets are off. For example, in Plantation Sunday afternoon two homes just blocks apart, were damaged by what were

A man walked into a Boca Raton gas station early Sunday morning determined to walk away with a fistful of cash. He didn't exactly get a fistful, but police say he walked away with some money and scared the store

Nine days after a Miami Beach gothic castle burned down, the former owner's son is dead. Joseph Conrad Burke died Saturday at 3 a.m., according to the Miami-Dade County Medical Examiner.