DENVER (AP) -- Suspected gang member Willie Clark was found guilty of murder Thursday in the drive-by shooting death of Denver Broncos cornerback Darrent Williams after a New Year's Eve outing three years ago....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Federal regulators expanded their efforts Thursday to go after children's jewelry that contains high levels of the toxic metal cadmium by telling parents to throw away "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"-themed charm bracelets....

BUENA, N.J. (AP) -- A former neighbor says a U.S. citizen who is being held as a terrorist in Yemen and is accused of a hospital shootout there moved to the Middle East about two years ago....

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- A federal appeals court in San Francisco has ruled that the phrase "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance is constitutional....

NEW YORK (AP) -- Police departments across the country are stepping up efforts to recruit officers who can speak more than one language, in some cases offering raises or even sending cops abroad as part of immersion programs....

SEATTLE (AP) -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says it will consider ways the states can address rising levels of carbon dioxide in oceans....

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- An 18-year-old Mississippi lesbian student whose school district canceled her senior prom rather than allow her to escort her girlfriend and wear a tuxedo said she got some unfriendly looks from classmates when she reluctantly returned to campus Thursday....