Poverty in America to climb to highest level since 1960s.

Merrill Lynch embezzler now back in business.

Facts concerning natural gas drilling raising some concerns with scientists.

Top GOP lawmakers are wary of senate-passed bills.

President Barack Obama again steps into the role of consoler-in-chief during a visit Sunday with distraught families of those gunned down in a minute and a half of horror at a midnight movie showing in Colorado.

Ocala police say the mother of a 1-year-old boy abandoned her son at a store as she was trying to steal merchandise.

Lifeguards are warning beachgoers of dangerous rip currents after two swimmers drowned and a third died from a heart attack after being rescued in Panama City Beach.

The stepson of hip-hop artist Usher has died, two weeks after he was critically injured in a boating accident.

"The Dark Knight Rises" is on track to earn $160 million after a shooting that left 12 dead and 58 wounded at a midnight screening of the Batman sequel in Colorado.

A person familiar with Katherine Jackson's whereabouts says she is resting with one of her daughters on doctor's orders.

One man was killed and another person seriously injured when their car hit a tree in Colbert County.

The jackpot in the Florida Lotto game has grown to $8 million after no one matched the six winning numbers in the latest drawing, lottery officials said Sunday.

The ranks of America's poor are on track to climb to levels unseen in nearly half a century. That means gains from the war on poverty in the 1960s are being erased amid a weak economy and fraying government safety net.

Florida authorities say they are searching for a Tampa man who took his 7-week old son and threatened to harm the child and any police who tried to arrest him.

State officials say a Central Florida child care facility has been closed and an employee who also serves as a youth pastor was arrested on charges of sexual battery against children.

Atlanta's zoo is trying to help people beat the heat.

Deputies say a Panama City woman's arm has been amputated after a vicious pit bull attack at the veterinary clinic where she worked.

The Aurora police chief says the suspect in the movie theater shooting set up booby traps in his apartment specifically to kill a police officer who might have opened the door.

Florida education officials say school grades in 40 of the state's 67 school districts have been bumped up after they were miscalculated under a questionable evaluation system.

A Port Charlotte couple has been arrested after authorities say their toddler swallowed prescription painkillers.

High-tech security? Forget those irksome eye scans. Meet the biometric shoe.

A manufacturing problem at a company that makes fuel lines is the reason Ford recalled 11,500 of its brand-new Escape small SUVs and told owners to stop driving them right away.

Carmike Cinemas issues a statement in the wake of the Aurora, Colorado, theater shooting.

For the first time, voters statewide have the option to cast their ballot on Saturday for the 2012 primary election.

Movie giant AMC Theatres says it won't be allowing people to wear costumes or face-covering masks into its theaters after a shooting in Colorado that killed at least 12 people and injured dozens more.