Category — Anchorage, Alaska

A U.S. immigration agency wants to charge at least $111,930 to say what’s inside one of its databases about citizenship applications.

The unincorporated town of Congress sits at the junction of state highways 71 and 89 in the middle of the Arizona desert, a no-stoplight kind of place if ever you saw one. It is so small, in fact, that the prickly pear cacti…

Police say a woman accused of strangling her daughter on a college campus apartment in Purchase, N.Y., told them she did it because the daughter was “disrespectful all the time.”

An ex-convict has pleaded guilty to killing his prison pen pal, encasing the body in cement and living off the victim’s savings and credit cards.

A judge has finalized South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford’s divorce from his wife Jenny, ending their 20-year marriage.

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford has agreed to pay $74,000 to settle charges that his travel and campaign spending violated state ethics laws.

Owen Elementary, which closed in 2006, stands open to any who dare to take on its dark, winding hallways and shadowy classrooms on Detroit’s southwest side.

A Los Angeles gang member who was on parole has been sentenced to 93 years to life in prison for killing a 4-year-old boy.

A union is condemning an effigy of President Barack Obama that was hung upside down by a teacher at a failing Rhode Island high school where he and all his colleagues were fired.

Three bear cubs orphaned by their mother’s life of crime have been given a new lease on life in the Nevada outback.

The U.N. peacekeeping chief says it’s time for the international community to take “concrete steps” to allow Afghans to take charge of their future - and to ensure that “Afghanization” becomes more than a slogan.

Owners of the nation’s oldest nuclear power plant are threatening to shut it down rather than build cooling towers mandated by New Jersey environmental regulators.

A federal appellate court says it won’t reconsider its ruling that former Attorney General John Ashcroft can be held personally responsible for misuse of the material witness statute after the Sept. 11 attacks.

Last fall, as swine flu cases mounted and parents desperately sought to protect their kids, the hard-to-get vaccine was handed out in some surprising places: the Royal Caribbean cruise line, the headquarters of drug giant…

New York Gov. David Paterson says he was the first to reveal to the media a conversation he had with the woman at the center of a domestic violence scandal involving a top aide.

Tens of thousands of immigrants are making their way across the country to the nation’s capital to rally Sunday on immigration reform.

More than 200 federal, state and local law enforcement officers swept through El Paso on Thursday, picking up suspected members of the Barrio Azteca gang in an effort to find new leads into the killings of three people with…

A jury has awarded a North Carolina woman $9 million from her husband’s lover after ruling the other woman ruined their marriage.

A Defense Department official under investigation for allegedly running an off-the-books spy program says the operation was authorized and saved lives in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

The signs of Maria Pinto’s rise were clear when Michelle Obama entered the world stage wearing her designs, also favored by Oprah Winfrey.

Anchorage’s People Mover system has won approval for a plan to use electronic devices on two of its 14 routes that will get buses through traffic lights faster. The devices will be turned on next week and are expected to cause an average 45-second delay for drivers on cross streets.

A dispute over a stolen PlayStation, some video games and cash led to a shooting death at the Dimond Center last month, according to court documents unsealed Wednesday charging a man with murder.

Two bills that would expand the disclosure requirements for people, companies and unions seeking to influence elections advanced in the Legislature on Wednesday, while a third was derailed by a House committee chairman.

No one disputes the facts: On a cloudy summer afternoon in 2008, Michael Nyako sneaked up to a runner at Westchester Lagoon, jumped her, dragged her into the grass and pinned her down. But what was his intention?

The latest petroleum tax fight in Alaska is over a bill that appeared only last week. It would divide the Siamese twins of oil and gas, the revenue source that pays for most of state government.

US terror suspect Colleen LaRose pleads not guilty to four counts in overseas terror case.

A Democratic Ohio congressman said a group opposed to health care overhaul went too far by taking out a newspaper ad that included a large photo of him with his two young daughters.

A defense lawyer says a former top fundraiser for Hillary Clinton intends to plead guilty in a federal bank fraud case.

A federal grand jury reportedly has issued subpoenas in a probe involving Sen. John Ensign of Nevada.

A California Highway Patrol officer responding to a report of a runaway Toyota Prius last week arrived to find a Border Patrol agent near the driver with emergency lights on.