It starts with a tip, a scrap of intelligence, a fingerprint lifted from a suspected terrorist's home. It ends when a person is forbidden to board an airplane.

New educational standards say 4th graders should know the difference between poetry and prose, 8th graders must be able to prove Pythagoras’ theorem.

A long-overlooked group of women who flew aircraft during World War II are awarded the Congressional Gold Medal.

Many law enforcement officers called up to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan are finding it difficult to readjust to their jobs once home.

When Juanita Goggins became the first black woman elected to the South Carolina Legislature in 1974, she was hailed as a trailblazer.  Three decades later, she froze to death at age 75.

“They have guns. Can you come really fast? And bring soldiers, too.” That was the urgent message a Southern California boy gave a 911 operator he dialed from a bathroom when three armed robbers threatened his parents. A sheriff credited the boy with averting a tragedy.

A high-ranking Toyota executive says the auto company's North American sales spiked around 50 percent the first eight days of March as incentives helped lure customers.

Even under the rough-and-tumble rules of the sea that Maine lobstermen live by, staring down the barrel of a .12-gauge shotgun is extreme.

Demographers say this year could be the "tipping point" when the number of babies born to minorities outnumbers that of babies born to whites.

Haim had flulike symptoms before he died and was getting over-the-counter and prescription medications, Police Sgt. William Mann said.