Mark Memmott

Authorities in Los Angeles plan to say more later today about why they're reopening the investigation into Woods' death over the weekend of Thanksgiving 1981. She drowned near Catalin...

Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez is accused of firing shots at the executive mansion. Authorities say one bullet struck a window, but did not penetrate the protective glass.

Law enforcement officials tell several news outlets that Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez had told others of his anger toward President Obama and Washington.

Mike McQueary has been under fire because a grand jury report said he never spoke with police about the alleged 2002 sexual attack on a young boy in a Penn State locker room. He's defended his actions in an email.

Meanwhile, wholesale prices dipped thanks to a sharp drop in energy costs.

"It would be inappropriate to keep Joe Paterno's name on the trophy at this time," Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany says.

It took more than a decade, Harrisburg's Patriot-News reports, for authorities to believe that former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was abusing young boys — even though ther...

Against the backdrop of a child sexual abuse scandal involving a former assistant coach, the school's football team played Nebraska, losing 17-14. Students and fans showed their support for victims of abuse.

The trustee overseeing the firm's liquidation terminated the workers. Some may be rehired to help wind down the firm, which was headed by former New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine (D).

Penn State students flooded downtown State College, Pa., after the school's trustees fired football coach Joe Paterno and university President Graham Spanier amid a growing furor ov...

His sweet and gentle comic was created in 1960 and now appears in more than 1,500 newspapers. A son, Jeff, is carrying it on.

The coach's decision to leave at the end of the season comes amid a scandal that has rocked Penn State and college football. A former assistant coach has been arrested for allegedly s...

The school's trustees are also launching their own investigation into the allegations that a former assistant football coach sexually abused young boys — and that some school officials had been told but didn't alert police.

As news outlets try to figure out what Tuesday's election results tell us about what voters are thinking, they're reaching various conclusions.

Frazier and Muhammad Ali fought three classic bouts in the early '70s. In the first, Frazier won. Ali came back to win the next two.

In a book she's written with her husband about being shot and her recovery, the Democratic congresswoman from Arizona also says "I will get stronger."

At 397,000, claims were down 9,000 from the previous week. That signals some improvement in the labor market. We'll get more data Friday when the government reports on the October unemployment rate.

While largely peaceful most of the day, the Occupy Oakland general strike turned violent overnight when protesters took over a vacant building and police responded with tear gas and f...

Assange, now in the U.K., denies he sexually assaulted two women in Sweden. He hasn't been charged with any crime and says extradition may be a ruse aimed at eventually sending him to...

She was "intellectually broad-minded" and instilled in her children "a pervasive sense of family and love for one another," journalist Carl Bernstein wrote of the former first lady's mother.