Any day now, billions of cicadas with bulging red eyes will creep out of the ground and overrun parts of the East Coast. But don't worry. They don't do any

With scant snowfall and barren ski slopes in parts of the Midwest and Northeast the past couple of years, some scientists have pointed to global warming as the

President Barack Obama is launching the nation's most sweeping effort to curb gun violence in nearly two decades.

Three Philadelphia-area police officers who were shot inside a police station today are expected to recover.

Vermont State Police say a man faces a drunken driving charge after driving onto the lawn of a historic home once owned by the co-founder of Alcoholics

A Southwest Airlines jet bound for Tampa, Fla., has veered off a taxiway and gotten stuck in mud at an airport on New York's Long Island.

A muted version of a winter storm that has killed more than a dozen people across the eastern half of the country plodded across the Northeast on Thursday,

Two firefighters have died and two firefighters are injured, after gunfire erupted at an early-morning fire scene outside of Rochester.

A gunman ambushed four volunteer firefighters responding to an intense pre-dawn house fire Monday morning outside Rochester, N.Y., killing two and ending up

 Victims of a meningitis outbreak tied to a Massachusetts compounding pharmacy will likely be allowed to do an exhaustive inspection of the facility, a federal

The national economy is expected to absorb the blow from Sandy with little long-term damage, but in the short term, at least, Sandy is introducing dramatic

A western New York couple has one more reason to be thankful after the wife gives birth along a suburban Rochester highway.

Nine wildland firefighters from New Mexico who were helping in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy were injured when their truck rolled over Monday.

Jerry Sandusky and at least some of his victims plan to address the judge at his sentencing, a proceeding that may last less than two hours, lawyers said after

The giant panda cub born a week ago at the National Zoo in Washington died Sunday morning, saddening zoo officials and visitors who had heralded its unexpected