The Southwestern Athletic Conference's first female official in football will work a game this weekend.
A former assistant principal has been sentenced to eight years in prison for molesting four girls at two Los Angeles schools.
The United Nations children's agency expressed concern Tuesday about Sri Lanka's decision to expel its spokesman and rejected allegations that it was biased against the government during the recently ended 25-year civil war.
A former security manager at a New York City museum featured in the Ben Stiller family film "Night at the Museum" has pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography.
The official who ran Wisconsin's largest nursing home for veterans has been replaced amid an ongoing investigation into more than $800,000 in unauthorized spending.
A former assistant principal has pleaded no contest to molesting four girls at two Los Angeles schools.
A public official wearing a mask attacked his fiancee inside their Connecticut home four days before their wedding, throwing a blanket over her, hitting her with a baseball bat and running out the back door, police said.
Police in the U.S. Virgin Islands say a fugitive wanted for attempted murder has been arrested at the home of an employee of the territory's Justice Department.
The construction minister in Russia's violence-plagued Ingushetia was shot to death in his office Wednesday, the latest in a series of high-profile attacks on top officials in the restive republic.
The official who has headed a key division at the Securities and Exchange Commission since its creation in 1995 is leaving the agency.
A Duke University official has been arrested and charged with offering a 5-year-old boy for sex.
A town councilwoman apologized to police Wednesday for her conduct after a police video showed her warning officers who were charging her with drunken driving that she approves their salaries.
The Communist Party official responsible for a key industrial zone in northern China has been fired and expelled from the party over graft allegations, state media reported Wednesday.
National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair has tapped the deputy director of the Sept. 11 Commission to head the top U.S. office for intelligence analysis.
A former spokesman for Florida's child welfare agency was sentenced to more than 24 years in prison Friday for taking nude photos of teenage boys, including a 16-year-old under the agency's care.
Medical examiners have completed an autopsy on a Freddie Mac executive found dead in an apparent suicide, but say a final determination on his cause of death could be weeks away.
David Kellermann started at Freddie Mac 16 years ago as an accountant, immersing himself in the company and working tirelessly to establish his career.
President Hugo Chavez has appointed a member of his ruling party as the top authority in Venezuela's capital.
A former official of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Meredith Cross, is returning to the agency to head its division that oversees company disclosures to the public, the SEC announced Monday.
Police in Harrisburg say the acting chief of Pennsylvania's Labor and Industry Department was too drunk to sign a citation for public drunkenness.
A former U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia resigned Tuesday from his new post as chairman of the National Intelligence Council following congressional criticism for comments about the Israeli government and alleged ties to foreign governments.
In a March 5 story, The Associated Press reported that congressional Republicans requested an investigation of Charles Freeman, new chairman of the National Intelligence Council, for his possible relationships to several foreign governments. The story should have specified that two Democrats were part of the request. They are Rep. Steve Israel of New York and Rep. Shelley Berkley of Nevada.
The former vice chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party has pleaded guilty in a scheme to launder illegal drug money for a client of his law practice.
A disbarred lawyer says he and two family members — one a former South Carolina agriculture official — did not starve dozens of horses and should not have been charged.
A former child welfare agency spokesman accused of taking nude photos of at least two teenage boys has pleaded guilty to producing child pornography.