MIAMI (AP) - The Internal Revenue Service is withdrawing its federal court summons seeking identities of suspected U.S. tax cheats at Swiss bank UBS AG after receiving more than 4,..

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - A New York judge has dismissed an upstate prosecutor's criminal case against five operators of a Florida pharmacy targeted in a national steroid sales investiga..

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - The death of a Pennsylvania game warden is drawing attention to the dangers faced by the law enforcement officers known as the "thin green line." Thirty-one-..

DESTIN, Fla. (AP) - Vietnam veterans who took part 40 years ago in a failed raid on a North Vietnamese prisoner of war camp are gathering in the Panhandle. Veterans of the Son Tay ..

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - A former ambassador to the Vatican is in charge of planning Governor-elect Rick Scott's inaugural festivities. Francis Rooney, a U.S. ambassador to the..

British couple Paul and Rachel Chandler, released over the weekend after being held by pirates for more than a year, departed Kenya on Tuesday for the United Kingdom.

For the first time in Japan, a jury of civilians has sentenced a man to death, court officials said on Tuesday.

Ireland is not on the verge of defaulting on debts, its Ministry of Finance insisted Monday, amid international fears that Ireland\'s financial troubles threaten the stability of the European currency the euro.

Freed activist Aung San Suu Kyi has made a passionate plea for dialogue and reconciliation to build democracy and improve human rights in Myanmar, calling for her country to back her as she cannot \"do it alone.\"

He was an adventurer, a scholar, and possibly a spy. But as Dutchman Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje proved with his rare 1885 photographs and sound recordings of Mecca, he was also a pioneering multimedia journalist.

In what may be one of the most significant breaches between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and the Obama administration, Gen. David Petraeus personally warned Afghan officials over the weekend the U.S.-Afghan partnership could be \"untenable\" if Karzai wants U.S. troops out of Afghanistan prematurely.

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - A DUI stop in southwest Florida has led authorities to a suspect wanted for the 2003 shooting death of a 23-year-old Ohio man. Hillsborough County Deputy Felix M..

NAPLES, Fla. (AP) - A former Collier County jail inmate whose baby died while she was behind bars is suing the jail's medical provider and the sheriff. Joan Laurel Small, now known..

MIAMI (AP) - Some of Haiti's presidential candidates are in Miami to court Haitian-Americans' money and influence. Nineteen candidates are on the ballot in Haiti's presidential ele..

CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) - Three fishermen who went missing on a trip in the Gulf of Mexico have been rescued. The men were spotted Saturday about 20 miles west of Clearwater. They we..

CEDAR FALLS, Iowa (AP) - A 26-year-old Florida woman is dead after a single-vehicle crash in Cedar Falls. Cedar Falls police say Kaley Michele Kennison of Palm Harbor, Fla., was a ..

THE VILLAGES, Fla. (AP) - Former President George W. Bush doesn't miss much about the White House - except the pampering. In a rally Saturday at The Villages, a sprawling central F..

GRETNA, La. (AP) - The Jefferson Parish Council says hundreds of 80-pound anchors that once kept oil containment boom in place are now navigation hazards. It wants BP to remove the..

A Qantas Boeing 747 passenger jet, similar to the one pictured above, was forced to turn back to Sydney on Monday because of an electrical problem, the airline said.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Lame-duck sessions are usually unpopular and unproductive. Nothing suggests otherwise this year. Seven weeks ahead of the GOP House takeover, hobbled Democrats an..