Tropical Storm Cristobal skirted the North Carolina coast, dumping heavy rain and churning up rough surf, but so far sparing the seaboard of any severe weather.

Police say a suburban Pittsburgh woman accused of cutting open a womb and stealing a baby is charged with homicide, unlawful restraint and kidnapping. The woman she's accused of killing is 18-year-old Kia Johnson of suburban McKeesport.

Gov. Martin O'Malley said Friday that state police are obligated to investigate threats to public safety, but his administration will not use public resources to monitor anti-war and anti-death penalty groups.

Investigators are trying to figure out why one of the world's largest mobile cranes toppled over, leaving four dead and seven injured.

Members of a professional soccer team helped subdue an American Airlines passenger who stripped naked and later tried to open an emergency exit door.

The Census Bureau says the federal Defense of Marriage Act bars the agency from recognizing gay marriages in the nation's 10-year count, even though the marriages are legal in Massachusetts and California.

Illegal immigrant Luis Ramirez was beaten after an argument with a group of youths. Despite witness reports that the attackers yelled ethnic slurs, authorities say the beating wasn't racially motivated.

President Bush toured Northern California to get a first-hand look at the wildfires that have ravaged hundreds of square miles and strained the state's firefighting resources.

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff told Congress there's no guarantee officials will catch terrorists traveling with European Union passports.

The call girl linked to the downfall of New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer has been sued by another New Jersey woman, who claims Ashley Dupre used her lost driver's license to appear on a "Girls Gone Wild" video.

The U.S. Army is moving forward with plans to shoot live pigs and treat their gunshot wounds in a medical trauma exercise for soldiers headed to Iraq.

Maybe it's tough economic times that are motivating brazen thieves: instead of just taking money, more and more crooks are stealing whole ATMs, and they're they're doing it incredibly fast. Hari Sreenivasan reports.

The four-year-old was underwater, drowning, her arm stuck in a drain. Her relieved and grateful mother told Julie Chen the whole story.

Troubled by the tainted tomato scare, nearly half of Americans are concerned they may get sick from eating contaminated food and are avoiding items they normally would buy, an Associated Press-Ipsos poll has found.

Al Gore is challenging the nation to produce every kilowatt of electricity through wind, sun and other Earth-friendly energy sources within 10 years, an audacious goal he hopes the next president will embrace.

A bear entered a tent and bit a camper in the Gallatin National Forest, leading the U.S. Forest Service to evacuate and close two campgrounds.

A woman falsely claimed she gave birth to a newborn, then said she was given the baby by the biological mother. The body of an unidentified person was found with their hands tied in the woman's apartment.

After President Bush criticized the Democratic-led Congress for not passing a spending bill, the House speaker made a rare personal attack.

The parachutist veered off course during a military review and landed feet first into the 1st Infantry Division's band. Three band members were hurt.

A measure seeking to commemorate President Bush's years in office by slapping his name on a San Francisco sewage plant has qualified for the November ballot.