Ken Stanford

Shots fired on homecoming weekend at North Carolina A&T State University prompted a brief campus lockdown after a 21-year-old man was wounded by a bullet fired from a "considerable distance," authorities said.

Two West Point graduates were married Saturday in the military academy's first wedding between two men.

It took nearly 15 years after voters approved medical marijuana for it to become available in the District of Columbia, but the next major change to pot laws in the nation's capital is on the fast track.

The Pakistani government Saturday accused the U.S. of sabotaging peace talks with domestic Taliban fighters by killing their leader in a drone strike, as the militants began the process of choosing a successor.

Local gasoline prices are swinging up and down ever more drastically, a result of a national fuel system that is operating with a shrinking margin for error.

City elections dominate the ballots across Georgia for the off-year elections to be held Tuesday.

The Georgia National Guard has indicated it will continue to ignore federal directives to guarantee certain benefits to same-sex spouses.

As early voting for next Tuesday's Gaineville mayoral race ended Friday, election officials reported that just over 500 people took advantage of the chance to vote early.

A divided appeals court panel sided Friday with Ohio business owners who challenged the birth control mandate under the new federal health care law.