Jurors are set to return for more deliberations in the murder trial of a Philadelphia abortion provider.

The Statue of Liberty is reopening July 4 after Superstorm Sandy flooded the island where it stands.

A former New York state senator who admitted embezzling nearly $88,000 from a state-funded nonprofit she controlled has been sentenced to one year and one day in prison.

A concourse at Miami International Airport has been evacuated as authorities investigate a suspicious package.

An Ohio prosecutor said Thursday he may seek the death penalty against Ariel Castro as investigators charged that he impregnated one of his captives at least five times and then starved her and punched her in the belly until she miscarried.

The next phase of the Jodi Arias murder trial was postponed Thursday and will continue next week.

Michelle Obama and military mothers are having high tea like the Brits.

California's attorney general sued one of the nation's largest banks Thursday, alleging that JPMorgan Chase & Co. used illegal tactics in its efforts to collect debts from more than 100,000 credit card holders.

A gang of cyber-criminals stole $45 million in a matter of hours by hacking their way into a database of prepaid debit cards and then fanning out around the globe to drain cash machines, federal prosecutors said Thursday.

A Tunisian man has been arrested in New York and accused of trying to stay in the United States illegally to build a terrorism cell.

An Arab-backed resolution calling for a political transition in Syria and strongly condemning the regime's escalating use of heavy weapons and "gross violations" of human rights was circulated Thursday to the U.N. General Assembly.

A judge has set a July 18 trial date for an Air Force officer who led the branch's sex assault response unit until he himself was charged with sexual battery.

Authorities say a Florida man ran from the law and into an alligator's jaws.

Sheriff's SWAT teams are proceeding extremely carefully as they search a rural part of Northern California where an ex-convict suspected of fatally shooting his wife and two young daughters is believed to be hiding out, authorities said Thursday.

Authorities in eastern Kansas said Thursday they have arrested a 27-year-old suspect in the deaths of three people whose bodies were found at a farm, and that a fourth victim _ an 18-month-old girl _ is presumed dead.

Federal officials reached agreements with the University of Montana after a yearlong investigation into mishandled sexual assault reports on campus that require the university to revise its policies and adequately respond to allegations, federal officials said Thursday.

More than 20 months after the bodies of a retired Northern Ireland police officer and his girlfriend were found in a Philippines bedroom littered with bullet casings, authorities seeking the extradition of a former U.S. Marine say they have linked him to guns used in the killings and recovered blood-splattered jeans he tried to have burned.

The younger sister of the 8-year-old boy killed in the Boston Marathon bombings has undergone what her family calls a "milestone" 11th operation on her left leg, which she lost below the knee, they said in a statement Thursday.

Oil industry associations say federal land managers are blocking new energy development by postponing all oil and gas lease auctions in California until October.

A former yeshiva teacher is on trial in New Jersey on charges he sexually abused a socially awkward boy whose family members, prosecutors say, were ostracized by their Orthodox Jewish community for taking the allegations to civil authorities.