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BP PLC plans to move ahead with replacing the blowout preventer that sits atop the well that unleashed the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, despite failing in attempts to remove pieces of drill pipe stuck inside the device, the federal oil-spill response chief said Friday.

The Air Force Office of Special Investigations reportedly launched a criminal probe last month after receiving information that Sgt. David Gutierrez, 43, "engaged in numerous, unprotected sexual acts…over the course of three years."

A Pennsylvania couple secretly videotaped a Roman Catholic priest having sex with their 18-year-old daughter in the basement of their home and are now suing, saying he got her pregnant.

A drunk man barged into a mosque in Queens, N.Y., and shouted anti-Muslim slurs before urinating on prayer rugs, the New York Post reported Thursday.

Mayor Bloomberg flew up to Martha’s Vineyard after Friday morning’s regular radio appearance to play a round of golf and talk about the economy with President Obama, the News has learned.

If you’re black and a student at one public middle school in Mississippi, you can’t run for president – only whites need apply.

A four-month search for a missing Las Vegas woman has come to an end in the unlikeliest of places: her own home.

A Northlake woman is suing the fast-food titan, claiming her daughter suffered a bad burn in April 2009 when hot chocolate from a Schiller Park drive-through spilled.

The 17-year-old daughter of the U.S. Ambassador to Thailand plunged to her death from a Midtown luxury high-rise early Friday morning, the Daily News has learned.

Stephen Strasburg has a significant tear on the ulnar collateral ligament that probably will require reconstructive Tommy John elbow surgery, the Washington Nationals announced Friday.

At 14 years old and 6’9”, Elisany Silva is the tallest teenager in the world. Her height hasn’t come without problems–she had to leave school and her parents don’t have enough money to determine the cause of or treat her inordinate growth.

“The Daily Show” has a knack for going on vacation when important things happen, so it’s nice to see Jon Stewart proactively “report” on Glenn Beck’s Aug. 28 civil rights rally on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. In a segment dubbed “I Have A Scheme,” Stewart picked apart Beck’s plan to “restore honor” to […]