PECOS, Texas A district attorney at the center of a scandal over alleged sexual abuse of juvenile inmates is disputing claims that his office failed to...

The Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley, Calif., has decided to drop bottled water from its menu. Robert Siegel talks with the restaurant's general manager, Mike Kossa-Rienzi. " E-Mail This " Add to Del.icio.us

The Senate Judiciary Committee gives chairman Patrick Leahy the authority to subpoena top White House officials, including political adviser Karl Rove. Leahy says the White House's offer to let them testify without an oath or transcript is unacceptable. " E-Mail

NBC Universal and News Corporation have announced plans to set up a new video sharing website to compete with Google's YouTube video site. " E-Mail This " Add to Del.icio.us

The latest Pew Research poll on political attitudes and core values of Americans indicates that while there is an increasing amount of support for a government-supported social safety net, Americans are less confident in the country as a whole. "

The Senate Banking Committee grills top regulators and several of the nation's largest lenders about problems with sub-prime mortgages -- and what regulators did and did not do to address them. About 14 percent of outstanding subprime loans are now

Presidential candidate John Edwards announced sad news Thursday: Cancer has returned to his wife, Elizabeth. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004, when her husband was the Democratic vice presidential candidate. She was thought to be recovering, but the

A Senate panel approves a massive bill to fund the Iraq war -- and to bring most U.S. troops home in 2008. A similar bill made it to the House floor for debate, although Democratic leaders there are still not

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said on Thursday he intends to file a lawsuit against student lender Education Finance Partners, the first legal action arising from the state's probe into the college loan industry.

CHICAGO -- Authorities are investigating whether anyone tried to bribe or threaten a bartender to dissuade her from pressing charges against an off-duty police officer accused of beating her in an attack caught on camera, police said Thursday.

Four people were shot on the Far Southeast Side on Thursday afternoon.

Stanford University professor Perry L. McCarty Thursday won the 2007 Stockholm Water Prize for his methods to improve biological treatment processes of water, prize organizers said.

With late-season storms stirring out in the Pacific Ocean, organizers of the Mavericks Surf Contest are holding out hope that they may yet declare the Bay Area's most famous big-wave surfing event good to go.

Marquez Haynes, a sophomore guard who contributed off the bench to Boston College's 21-12 team this past season, will transfer to an undetermined school in hope of more playing time, according to head coach Al Skinner. Haynes averaged 3.1 points,

The Sallie Mae tour bus stopped at John Tyler High School Thursday. It was one of only fifty schools on a nationwide tour.

Hundreds of dollars are missing from an East Texas city's records and a former employee may be to blame. It happened in the town of Rusk, that's the county seat of Cherokee County. The Rusk City Attorney says the city

A new, independent website suggests more animals than originally thought may have died after eating the tainted food in that massive Menu Foods recall. So far, hundreds of people have logged on. Thursday, KLTV 7's Lindsay Wilcox spoke with another

There has been an arrest in a 25-year-old cold murder case. A married father from New Jersey is now charged with the vicious murder and rape of a 19-year-old neighbor.

Thursday's thunderstorms are causing significant delays at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, where some flights are taking off more than 90 minutes late.

Students at Quail Valley Middle School in Missouri City are in mourning after their new art teacher, Tracey Ripley, died suddenly during Spring Break.