The nation's largest stun-gun manufacturer is working on a new way to deliver electricity to the human body: through 12-gauge shotgun shells.

Between 50,000 and 10,000 years ago, two-thirds of all large mammals were swept into the dustbin of history in Earth's last large extinction event. Why? UC Berkeley paleontologist Anthony Barnosky sifts through the fossil record to understand how environmental changes

Imagine that the milk in your refrigerator could sniff itself, changing the color of the carton if its contents were spoiled, or that tiny sensors throughout an airport unobtrusively screened for explosives, eliminating security checkpoint traffic jams. UC Berkeley graduate

There is a warrant out tonight for a Philadelphia 16-year-old, now being called a killer. The victim was 15 year-old Augustus Favors, a 10th grader at Northeast High School.

Police in the city of Trenton are responding much faster to calls for help from citizens and they owe it to technology.

Senate Republican leader Bill Frist is trying to put the brakes on a deal letting a company from the United Arab Emirates take over some operations at six major U-S ports, including the one in Philadelphia.

Delaware State Police are investigating the discovery of three human skulls by workers operating excavating equipment.

HOUSTON (Reuters) - Former Enron Corp. CEO Ken Lay lied about the company's precarious financial health in its final weeks even after learning it had no access to new sources of cash, a former Enron executive testified on Tuesday.

SACRAMENTO Prosecutors in the terror-related trial of a California father and son have played a videotaped admission by the younger man that he attended a terrorist camp in...

DALLAS The National Religious Broadcasters are wrapping up their annual convention amid warnings of potential threats to their proclamation of biblical teachings.N-R-B...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. An ex-foreman at the West Virginia mine where 12 miners died last month has been indicted on federal charges.Robert Dennison is accused of falfiying...

PHOENIX It's a Taser -- with a longer range.That's what the nation's biggest manufacturer of stun-guns is working to develop.

With few physical clues to the whereabouts of an escaped show dog, the hunt for the award-winning whippet has entered another realm.

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. Former Houston Astros broadcaster Gene Elston today was chosen to receive the Ford C. Frick Award.Elston will be honored at this summer's Hall of...

TURIN, Italy Something happened on the way to the showdown between Americans Shani (SHAH'-nee) Davis and Chad Hedrick.Italian Enrico Fabris today doused the...

SURPRISE, Ariz. Chad Allen is trying to beat the odds again.Allen was a long shot to make the Texas Rangers roster last year.But his .364 batting average...

KISSIMMEE, Fla. He runs meetings, scouts hitters and tells pitchers when their throwing motions are off.The value of Brad Ausmus to the Houston Astros...

AUSTIN What's your take on education in Texas?One official today portrayed education as being in dismal shape, while Governor Rick Perry cited Texas as a...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. The NASCAR team owned by former Dallas Cowboys quarterbacks Troy Aikman and Roger Staubach received its first penalties today.Hall of Fame...

Do you know what you're wearing to work tomorrow? We know of at least one guy who doesn't., and he's waiting for people on the internet to make the choices for him.