Ken Stanford

More American households are ditching their old telephones: 4 out of 10 only use cellphones, a government survey shows.

A U.S. Navy veteran filed a civil rights lawsuit Monday after the Idaho State Veterans Cemetery refused to allow her to be buried with the ashes of her late wife.

United Nations officials are pushing for many of the Central Americans fleeing to the U.S. to be treated as refugees displaced by armed conflict, a designation meant to increase pressure on the United States to accept tens of thousands of people currently ineligible for asylum.

As Washington state readied to become only the second state to allow people to buy marijuana legally without a doctor's note, lines were already forming in front of the lucky few stores that got last-minute approval to sell.

The Israeli military launched what could be a long-term offensive against the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Tuesday striking nearly 100 sites in Gaza and mobilizing troops for a possible ground invasion aimed at stopping a heavy barrage of rocket attacks against Israel.

Police in coastal Georgia have identified a man who died after his boat overturned as 52-year-old Paul Moore of Talahi Island.

Gainesville and Hall County firefighters responded to a construction debris fire on Old County Dump Road in Gainesville Sunday afternoon.