
Nov 18 - By Ben Fox, Associated Press Writer
President Barack Obama is now confirming what many have long suspected: He will miss his January deadline to close the Guantanamo prison — partly because he cannot persuade other nations to take the detainees. Complete Story...
6 hours ago - By Associated Press
Authorities in the western Mexican state of Michoacan are investigating the disappearance of a journalist who wrote about organized crime.
10 hours ago - By Curt Anderson, AP Legal Affairs Writer
Investors claiming they were fleeced by a high-profile South Florida attorney filed a $100 million lawsuit Friday contending that the lawyer orchestrated a massive Ponzi scheme with the help of a Canadian bank's U.S. subsidiary and several accomplices.
Nov 19 - By Amy Forliti, Associated Press Writer
Another man has been indicted on terrorism charges in a federal investigation into the recruitment of Minnesota Somalis to fight in Somalia.
Nov 19 - By Kimberly Hefling, Associated Press Writer
Congressional investigators said Thursday that tens of thousands of questionnaires aimed at measuring the mental and physical health of returning combat troops can't be found.
Nov 15 - By Ali Akbar Dareini, Associated Press Writer
An Iranian former deputy defense minister who has been missing for nearly three years was abducted by Israeli agents and is now being held in Israel, several Iranian news Web sites reported Sunday.
Nov 13 - By Associated Press
Virginia State Police say they believe a Virginia Tech student missing for nearly a month was hitchhiking after she left a Metallica concert.
Nov 12 - By Associated Press
A South Florida lawyer suspected of operating a $1 billion Ponzi scheme is asking for his own disbarment.
Nov 12 - By Wayne Parry, Associated Press Writer
Nearly a day after a commercial fishing boat sank off New Jersey, the Coast Guard ended its search Thursday for the three crew members.
Nov 10 - By P. Solomon Banda, Associated Press Writer
An Aurora man convicted in the disappearance and presumed death of his daughter was sentenced Tuesday to 114 years behind bars.
Nov 5 - By Associated Press
A jury has found an Iowa woman guilty of killing her 2-year-old son and seriously injuring his older brother when she slit the boys' throats before cutting her own neck last year.
Nov 5 - By Associated Press
Defense attorneys are asking a judge to move the trial of a mother and her boyfriend accused in the slaying of an Idaho boy this summer.
Nov 4 - By Curt Anderson, AP Legal Affairs Writer
Federal agents seized computers, bank and investment records, cash and even the key to a Ferrari during an all-night search at the office of an attorney suspected of operating a massive fraud scheme.
Nov 3 - By Curt Anderson, AP Legal Affairs Writer
Federal prosecutors accused a high-profile South Florida attorney of concocting a Ponzi scheme that lured millions of dollars from investors with promises of big payoffs from legal settlements that never existed, according to court documents filed Monday.

Nov 2 - By Associated Press
Authorities say preliminary autopsy results show drowning as the cause of death for three North Dakota college softball players found dead inside a sport utility vehicle that sunk in a rural farm pond.

Nov 2 - By Melissa Nelson, Associated Press Writer
Investigators spent five days searching a rural area of dense vines and marshes for a missing infant, only to find her lying quietly in a 2-foot by 3-foot cedar box that had been shoved under her baby sitter's bed. Clothing was packed around it to muffle any sounds and baking soda placed inside to mask the stench of dirty diapers.
Oct 29 - By Associated Press
Two fishermen who went missing when their boat sank off the coast of Cape Cod have been rescued after about five hours in the water.
Oct 28 - By Associated Press
The U.S. Navy has identified the pilot found after his plane disappeared off the Texas coast on Wednesday.
Oct 28 - By Associated Press
A Navy T-34 jet trainer with two people aboard has gone missing off the Texas gulf coast.
Oct 28 - By Associated Press
Police in China have created a Web site with photos of 60 rescued kidnap victims, mostly boys and many of them infants, in a bid to track down their families.
Oct 26 - By Associated Press
Authorities say a small plane with four people aboard that vanished from radar shortly after the pilot reported turbulence has crashed in southern Texas.

Oct 25 - By Kim Gamel, Associated Press Writer
The graves stretch some 10 miles into the desert, in what may be the largest cemetery in the world.

Oct 21 - By Mike Celizic, msnbc.com - Only on msnbc.com
The grief-stricken mother of a missing 7-year-old Florida girl delivered an impassioned plea Wednesday both to Somer Thompson and to whomever knows where she is to bring her home.

Oct 20 - By Brent Kallestad, Associated Press Writer
After 7-year-old Somer Thompson vanished on her way home from school, investigators tailed nine garbage trucks from her neighborhood to a Georgia landfill nearly 50 miles away, then picked through the trash as each rig spilled its load.

Oct 20 - By Associated Press
The parents of a Virginia Tech student who disappeared outside a Metallica concert said Tuesday they fear she is the victim of foul play.