[caption id="attachment_23967" align="alignright" width="300"] (AP Photo Sue Ogrocki)[/caption]MOORE, Okla. - A monstrous tornado at least a half-mile wide roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroyin ...

ROME - The latest weapon in the U.N.'s fight against hunger, global warming and pollution might be flying by you right now. Edible insects are being promoted as a low-fat, high-protein food for people, pets and livestock. According to the U.N., they ...

NEWTOWN -- After considering 40 locations, deliberating for weeks and hearing from countless residents, officials Friday decided the Sandy Hook Elementary School community belongs in its original home -- but in a new building. A 28-member task force ...

WASHINGTON - Any day now, billions of cicadas with bulging red eyes will crawl out of the earth after 17 years underground and overrun the East Coast. The insects will arrive in such numbers that people from North Carolina to Connecticut will be outn ...

WEST -- Fourteen bodies have been recovered after an explosion at a decades-old fertilizer plant demolished a section of the small Central Texas town of West, officials said Friday. But as the sun set on a second day of search and recovery in the clo ...

WEST, Texas - Rescue workers searched rubble that witnesses compared to a war zone early Thursday for survivors of a fertilizer plant explosion in a small Texas town that killed as many as 15 people and injured more than 160 others. The blast left th ...

A recently controversial painting of Jesus that had hung in school hallways in Jackson since 1947 is coming down. Jackson City Schools officials believed the law was on their side in defending the continued display of the painting against a lawsuit t ...

New York's big government - with its hands deep in taxpayers' pockets and regulations controlling everyone's lives - has made the Empire State the worst in the nation for personal liberty, a new study shows. A war on sugary drinks is the least of fre ...

Is your car spying on you? If it's a recent model, has a fancy infotainment system or is equipped with toll-booth transponders or other units you brought into the car that can monitor your driving, your driving habits or destination could be open to ...

Dick and Ginny Walters envision a new approach to dying for Vermont residents: They want terminally ill patients with a prognosis of less than six months to live to have the right to request and take life-ending medication. The Shelburne, Vt., retire ...