The FBI has released surveillance video of a powerful pipe-bomb blast that shattered windows at the federal courthouse in San Diego last Sunday, filling the lobby with smoke.

Convicted Washington D.C.- area sniper John Allen Muhammad has changed his mind about not appealing his death sentence.

San Francisco officials say an investigation has found the city is not liable for injuries suffered by two brothers who were attacked by an escaped zoo tiger.

Sources say security contractor Blackwater Worldwide is not expected to face criminal charges in connection with the deaths of 17 civilians in Iraq.

The centerpiece for the Martin Luther King Junior memorial on the National Mall is drawing criticism from a federal arts panel.

Four students have been arrested following a lunchtime brawl at a Los Angeles high school that involved about 600 students.

Two children and their mother are said to have lived for about two months with the decaying body of a 90-year-old woman in their home's only bathroom.

The U.S. Geological Survey says an undersea earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.7 has shaken Guam.

There's a plea deal for a Missouri woman accused of slashing a young mother and kidnapping her newborn in a 2006 attack.

The policy shift comes after it was revealed that crematoriums contracted by the military are used for both human and animal cremations.