Vernon Forrest, Lorenzen Wright, and Stephen Jackson have all been victims of gun violence. Forrest was murdered while being robbed, Wright’s murder is still in question, and Stephen Jackson’s home was burglarized while his wife was home.

African-Americans may be at an increased risk for developing life-threatening blood clots after receiving drug-coated stents that are meant to keep their arteries open, new research shows.

The Alabama Crimson Tide’s Heisman-winning tailback Mark Ingram went down with a knee injury Monday. He, Ingram is out indefinitely and certainly won’t play in ‘Bama’s season opener against San Jose State.

President Obama speaks to the nation Tuesday from the Oval Office on the end of the U.S. combat role in Iraq. Here are three key questions the president could answer in his speech:

In 1993, my Muslim community purchased an old school building in Bloomfield Township in the hopes of making it a home for the spiritual and social lives of the growing number of Muslim families in the area. It would be a mosque. We’d call it the Unity Center, and as part of its mission we […]

Police say a California doctor apparently tried to get into the home of the man she had been dating by sliding down the chimney. Her decomposing body was found there days later.

More than half a dozen states suing to overturn President Barack Obama’s health care law are also claiming its subsidies for covering retired state government employees, according to a list released Tuesday by the administration.

A suburban Dallas man used a razor blade to slit his throat moments after a judge sentenced him to 40 years in prison.

Reporting from Washington — The recently enacted financial reform legislation tries in numerous ways to change how Wall Street companies and their federal regulators act, but a little-noticed provision aims for something potentially more difficult and controversial — altering how they look.

Public opposition to the proposed mosque and community center near Ground Zero is growing dramatically, a new Quinnipiac University poll of New York voters found.

Foursquare, the phone application for telling friends and strangers where you are, is offering a special virtual “badge” through September to people who do just that.