Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis says his department and Mayor Thomas Menino's office will conduct two separate investigations into the Boston Marathon bombings response.

A Philadelphia teenager with cerebral palsy is recovering after a brutal attack in which she was bitten across her back and shoulders.  However, from where the bites originated remains a mystery.

Autopsy results have confirmed the body found late Thursday afternoon in the brush near Modjeska Canyon is that of a missing California army veteran.

New Orleans officials and cultural advocates say the Mother's Day parade shootings that left 20 people injured won't spell the end of second-line parades, the local tradition that celebrates the city and its people.

Authorities say a 6-year-old boy died after he was kicked in the throat by a pony on a south-central Pennsylvania farm.

With its ranks deeply divided, the Boy Scouts of America is asking its local leaders from across the country to decide whether its contentious membership policy should be overhauled so that openly gay boys can participate in Scout units.