Kevin West

Tipped off by DNA evidence, police arrested a man and charged him with a 29-year-old murder of a Seattle-area girl, officials said.

The suspect in what authorities say is one of the most inhumane crimes they have ever seen was a Girl Scout who cared for babies at her church and took nursing classes in college.

A Roman Catholic bishop has offered to resign after acknowledging he inappropriately touched a teen-ager more than 25 years ago.

With drought parching the East Coast from Maine to Georgia, brush fires are breaking out in woods that normally would just be thawing out from winter.

Two men have been sentenced to prison in one of the biggest robberies in state history - $3.9 million from an armored car company.

A former secretary claims in a lawsuit that Pardons and Paroles Board member Gene Walker sexually harassed her and eventually had her moved to another job.

Mississippi State was feeling a bit overlooked. The Bulldogs took out their frustration on Florida.

South Carolina gave the 12th-ranked Wildcats the same treatment they've long been dishing out to everyone else in the Southeastern Conference tournament in a 70-57 victory Friday night.

Cross Keys won its first state championship, getting 24 points from Lance Willis and 17 from Oniah Mitchell in beating Mitchell-Baker 80-78 in the Class AAA boys title game.

The state Environmental Protection Division and Hartsfield International Airport reached an agreement Friday on steps to prevent de-icing fluid from affecting the environment downstream.