POLITICS

A badly decomposed body, which was found in a bushy area of Alameda County of the San Francisco Bay Area late Saturday morning, was confirmed Monday night as the remains of Michelle Le, the 26-year-old missing nursing student.

The Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles on Tuesday said that the execution of Troy Davis will take place as per schedule at 7 p.m. on Wednesday.

A woman with a rare condition called uterus didelphys, or a double uterus, gives birth to twins.

A hiker killed by a mother grizzly bear this summer in Yellowstone National Park may have unwittingly helped provoke the attack by running from the animal, a report released on Tuesday said.

A group of 30 scientists in the United Kingdom, lead by Sir David Attenborough and prominent scientist Richard Dawkins, have called for the outlawing of teaching creationism in school science lessons, accusing religious fundamentalists for portraying it as scientific theory in publicly funded schools.

The Occupy Wall Street protests continued into Day 4 on Tuesday as protesters braved the cold and rain to decry the nation's current economic structure.

Suffolk County Police have released the composite sketches of two unidentified people whose bodies were found on a Long Island beach.

Ziggy comic creator Tom Wilson died Sept. 16 at age 80 in a Cincinatti nursing home from pneumonia.

Troy Davis was denied clemency on Tuesday in a last-ditch appeal and is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on Wednesday for the 1989 murder of a police officer in Savannah.

California will trail the nation's economic recovery as its once fast-growing inland areas struggle for years to come with a dearth of jobs and devastated housing markets, a report released on Tuesday said.

Orange County woman had sex with at least one teammate, police allege.

Terrance Sherrod Roberson turns himself in to police.

An announcement published on Treasure Island stated that companies responsible for 2007 San Francisco oil spill incident have agreed to pay $44.4 million as a settlement.

After over 24 hours's negotiations, officials from the United Food and Commercial Workers finally reached a deal Monday with three big grocery chains, Ralphs, Vons and Albertsons. This tentative agreement avoided a grocery strike involving more than 60,000 workers in Southern California.

NFL players hoping to extend their playing career apparently don't think stem-cell treatment is a bad idea. Last week came a report that injured Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning had stem cell therapy in Europe before having a third neck surgery this month. Now comes a new report that free agent wide receiver Terrell Owens is in South Korea for a three-day stem-cell therapy treatment.

Contradictory news reports muddle the picture of a shocking, inexplicable crime

A physicist, an architect, an evolutionary geneticist and a jazz percussionist are among the 22 people to win MacArthur Genius Grants in 2011.

A Georgia parole board has decided to reject a request for clemency for death row inmate Troy Davis after it has heard testimonies from supporters and prosecutors.

A prominent dolphin researcher is probing whether dolphins are capable of starting conversations.

Troy Davis will be executed as planned as the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles on Tuesday denied clemency for the death row inmate convicted of murdering police officer Mark MacPhail in 1989. Davis is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Wednesday.

Authorities say the badly decomposed remains found in a Bay Area canyon section of Alameda County, Calif. are those of Michelle Le, the missing nursing student who disappeared May 27 while taking a school break.

Old, poor and Hispanic women are all more likely to have lymph nodes under the armpit removed unnecessarily during breast cancer surgery, a new study finds.

Video recordings of the trial over California's gay marriage ban should be unsealed, a federal judge ruled on Monday.

Twenty-two Americans ranging from a radio journalist to a sports trainer received no-strings-attached genius grants worth $500,000 each, a charitable foundation announced on Tuesday.

For 25 years, Cakebread Cellars in the Napa Valley of California has hosted a kind of late-summer camp for chefs.

California will trail the nation's economic recovery as its once fast-growing inland areas struggle for years to come with a dearth of jobs and devastated housing markets, a report released on Tuesday said.

A new study found that self-powered cells, fueled by bacteria, can produce a limitless supply of hydrogen, offering hope for the future use of this efficient energy carrier.

Police have confirmed that the decomposed remains found in a San Francisco Bay area canyon over the weekend are those of nursing student Michelle Le, who had been missing since May while taking a school break.

Four earthquakes continuously hit southern Guatemala Monday within two and a half hours, causing at least one death, reports said.