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.
An Acorn official said the organization is not worried about losing federal funding. Brian Kettenring, the organization's deputy national director, said Acorn received between $2 million and $3 million in federal money last year.
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Hundreds of students jammed into a narrow school staircase panicked and set off a stampede Thursday that left at least five students dead and another 24 injured, an Indian hospital official said.
One man has been charged with murder and another with assault in a baseball bat attack at a western Minnesota church that left a 14-month-old girl dead.
The Obama administration has accused Pakistan of illegally modifying U.S.-made missiles to expand its ability to hit land-based targets, which would constitute a threat to India, The New York Times reported.
When the CIA revived a plan to kill or capture terrorists in 2004, the agency turned to the well-connected security company then known as Blackwater USA.
The crime scene inside a small Pentecostal church where a pastor was slain was the most brutal he has seen in nearly 20 years as a prosecutor, the local district attorney said Tuesday.
Campaign teams for President Hamid Karzai and top challenger Abdullah Abdullah each positioned themselves Friday as the winner of Afghanistan's presidential election.
An Afghan bill allowing a husband to starve his wife if she refuses to have sex has been published in the official gazette and become law.
Hanson wrote "In George Orwell's allegorical novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four," the picture of "Big Brother" appears constantly in the adoring media." He continued, "America is not Oceania, but some of this is beginning to sound a little too familiar."
What's a more heinous offense than being gay and out in the military? Apparently, being openly married to a porn star while you're in a public service position.
South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford used state aircraft for personal and political trips, often bringing along his wife and children - contrary to state law regarding official use, an Associated Press investigation has found.
Transporting exotic animals in and out of the Egypt is illegal, and none of the passengers on Friday's flight claimed ownership of the baby croc.
A former government official says Honduras' interim leader is open to the reinstatement of ousted President Manuel Zelaya.
At least 20 policemen were killed in two land mine attacks blamed on Maoist rebels and a subsequent gunbattle in eastern India on Sunday, a government minister said.
Flood waters have inundated scores of villages in India's northeast, leaving nearly 500,000 people homeless, an official said Monday.
Frank M. Lombard was arrested last week at home in Durham, NC for offering his 5-year-old son for sex to the person he was chatting with on the internet. The person he was chatting with was a task force officer from Washington's Metropolitan Police.
A Duke University official is accused of offering his 5-year-old adopted son for sex on the Internet, according to the FBI and court documents in the case.Frank M. Lombard, 42, was arrested last week at his home in Durham, North Carolina.
A government official says Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano plans to kill a controversial program begun by the former Bush administration to use U.S. spy satellites for domestic security.
Two new swine flu cases have been confirmed in Oxfordshire within the past 24 hours.
Polish education officials are in hot water again - this time for a nursery rhyme book that helps children to count with rhymes that say Germans smell and gypsies sell children.
A law enforcement official said Thursday that James Von Brunn, an elderly white supremacist, is being investigated as the prime suspect in the shooting at the U.S. Holocaust Museum.
A military official says 15 gunmen and a soldier were killed in a two-hour shootout in the heart of Acapulco's hotel zone.
Iran blames the U.S. and Israel for a bombing in a Shiite mosque that killed 25 people, saying the countries were trying to stoke sectarian tension with the Sunni Muslim minority.