The Boy Scouts of America's National Council has voted to ease a long-standing ban and allow openly gay boys to be accepted as Scouts.

Eighteen people were taken to the hospital Friday, one in critical condition, after they were hurt in a crash between a hotel shuttle bus and a tractor-trailer near Atlanta's airport, officials said.

For his 107th Memorial Day, Richard Arvine Overton — believed to be the nation’s oldest veteran — is planning a quiet day at the Texas home he built after returning home from World War II. He wouldn’t want it any other way.

A South Texas police officer has been put on administrative leave after being charged with shooting an arrow into a neighbor's cat.

The judge in the Jodi Arias murder trial declared a mistrial in the penalty phase Thursday after the jury reported for a second time that it was deadlocked on whether to sentence her to life in prison or death for killing her boyfriend in 2008.

New Jersey rolled out some of its big guns Friday to proclaim that the shore is back following Superstorm Sandy, using Gov. Chris Christie and the cast of MTV's "Jersey Shore" to tell a national audience the state is ready for summer fun.

The jury foreman in Jodi Arias' murder trial says the 18 days she spent on the witness stand didn't do her any good.

Officials say a yellow kayak of a missing Pensacola man was found by a fisherman on Okaloosa Island.

A New Jersey police officer with a history of disciplinary issues reportedly firebombed the home of his supervisor, authorities said.