A sex offender has been arrested after 33 years on the run, according to reports.

Authorities in Ireland are investigating whether a second American woman was involved in a plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Thousands of New York City taxi drivers overcharged passengers by more than $8.3 million over the past two years, the Taxi and Limousine Commission says.

The social studies changes approved by the Texas Board of Education will have a broad influence because the state is one of the nation's largest buyers of textbooks.

A lobsterman and his daughter are acquitted  of all counts stemming from the shooting of a another lobsterman in a dispute over fishing territory off the coast of Maine.

A 19-year-old Oakland woman accused of suffocating her 2-year-old daughter is being held without bail after being charged with murder.

A former aide to past presidential candidate John Edwards has avoided jail again in a dispute over a tape that allegedly shows Edwards and his lover in a sexual encounter.

On the seventh anniversary of Elizabeth Smart's return from her kidnapping ordeal, a judge sets a trial date for the man charged in the case.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's wife underwent surgery Friday after breaking her neck and back in a traffic accident that also injured the senator's daughter, a spokesman said.

A man wearing what appeared to be a pipe bomb was kicked out of a Seattle homeless shelter Friday morning after claiming to be a vampire, then wandered around before surrendering to police, authorities and witnesses said.