NEW YORK - Relief from the sweltering summer heat is on the way Wednesday, at least for the northeast, as a cold front is expected to lower temperatures to the mid-80s.
COLUMBIA, S.C. - Eighteen years after her 8-month-old baby died, a mother walked into a police station and told officers she killed her son while staying at a home for unwed mothers, police said.
LOS ANGELES - Thousands of travelers across the western United States and Canada had their plans disrupted by an 80-minute power outage at a radar facility that handles flights in and out of Southern California.
BOSTON - Efforts to investigate the embattled Big Dig project spread to the courts, the federal government and the state Legislature as pressure mounted on the head of the project.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Fire engulfed a dock area at the Port of Providence on Tuesday night when lightning struck as a tanker was unloading gasoline, sending large plumes of smoke and fireballs into the air.
DENVER - Gov. Bill Owens signed a measure banning child brides, ending an uproar sparked by a court ruling that said 12-year-old girls could enter common-law marriages in Colorado.
HOUSTON - In a videotaped interview with a forensic psychiatrist after drowning her children in a bathtub, a wide-eyed Andrea Yates sat in an orange jumpsuit and explained: "They didn't do things God likes."
SALT LAKE CITY - Police scoured the neighborhood Tuesday of a missing 5-year-old girl whose parents said she disappeared from her front porch after arguing with them about having to go to bed.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Fire engulfed a tanker ship at the Port of Providence on Tuesday night, sending large plumes of smoke and fireballs into the air.
STAMFORD, Conn. - A store clerk charged with spiking bottled grape juice that sickened more than 40 churchgoers admitted to the tampering, saying he did it because he was not appreciated at work, according to an arrest affidavit filed Tuesday.
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. - One of the men charged with fatally stabbing six people over an Xbox video game system said as he was booked into jail that he had killed someone, a guard testified Tuesday.
FORT WORTH, Texas - One day after federal officials announced indictments of operators of an offshore Internet gambling site, there were signs of how difficult it will be to prosecute the case.
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - A tribal president who was ousted and then reinstated after proposing an abortion clinic on the reservation was again stripped of her leadership role Tuesday.
FORT BRAGG, N.C. - Federal agents conducting a sweep aimed at illegal immigrants detained 58 civilian workers Tuesday as they tried to enter Fort Bragg with suspected false or fraudulently obtained identification, officials said.
STAMFORD, Conn. - In what attorneys say is the first case of its kind since Connecticut legalized civil unions, a lesbian couple filed a medical malpractice lawsuit Tuesday claiming botched cancer treatments damaged their love life.
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - The newspaper in this seaside Southern California community isn't just reporting the news these days.
MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. (Court TV) - Two former Central Michigan University football teammates of James King testified that they saw King punch a man outside a bar, but didn't see him take part in the brawl that led to his death.
LOS ANGELES (Court TV) - James Bond, Disney, stiletto heels, pricey real estate and a string of starstruck Hollywood hopefuls are the pieces of a puzzle that prosecutors say connect convicted felon Victor Paleologus to the brutal slaying of aspiring actress Kristine Johnson.
MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. (Court TV) - When Terrance Robinson finished his second day on the stand Thursday in the murder trial of two former college football players, it was unclear whether he knew he was telling the truth.
WASHINGTON - A former Naval Academy quarterback accused of rape testified Tuesday that his accuser initiated the encounter, which he described as "sex gone bad."
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A convicted con artist was indicted in Manhattan on Tuesday on charges of stealing a Degas sculpture worth about $600,000 from a wealthy art collector and arranging to sell it.