Two Rare Yangtze Giant Soft-Shell Turtles The Last Of Their Kind.

Agreement Obliges Exit By Friday, But Russia Says It Plans To Keep Troops Inside Abkhazia, South Ossetia.

On the heels of Gov. Sarah Palin's statement yesterday that Sen. Barack Obama does not see America as "a force for good in the world," Rep. Heather Wilson, R-N.M., accused the Democratic presidential nominee of "talking down America."

Attorney General Steve Six warned consumers Friday that criminals appear to be trying to steal the identities of dead Kansas to open charge accounts through retail stores.

State officials have formally appealed a federal judge's order dismissing their challenge of a casino in Kansas City, Kansas.

A central Kansas bank that financed people who moved cattle from Texas to Kansas more than 120 years ago will be the home to a museum honoring the drovers.

Sheriff Craig Murphy said the pair died Saturday night after the crash on tracks that cross a driveway on private property northeast of Augusta. The victims' names have not been released.

The annual Apple Festival in Topeka is a long-time Topeka tradition with live entertainment, demonstrations, heritage food and an arts and crafts fair.

It's starting to feel like Tina Fey is running for vice president.

One month before Election Day, Barack Obama sits atop battleground polls in a shrinking playing field, the economic crisis is breaking his way and he has made progress toward winning the White House.

Kids had the chance to explore all of their favorite busses and trucks this morning at the fourth annual "Rev Up Your Engines" at Good News Church in Topeka.

For 20 years, the warts studding Dede Kosawa's hands and feet multiplied and sprouted like gnarled roots.

A deputy who responded to a 911 call three years ago described finding a 2-year-old boy holding a phone as his parents lay brutally slain upstairs as the trial for the man accused of killing the couple began Friday.

Moved by a 2007 trip to Ghana, singer/songwriter John Legend joined the fight to end extreme poverty in his lifetime. And based on his experiences in poor, rural areas of Africa, he says, real change is possible.

In a city where luck means everything, O.J. Simpson came out the big loser — and his unlucky number in a case full of bizarre twists was 13.

Eating a tiny bit of a melamine, the chemical responsible for a global food safety scare, is not harmful except when it's in baby formula, U.S. food safety officials said Friday.

The AIDS virus has been circulating among people for about 100 years, decades longer than scientists had thought, a new study suggests.

The death toll from a string of hurricanes and tropical storms in Haiti has risen to nearly 800 people, an official with the Haitian Red Cross says.

With tears in his eyes, famed race car driver and "Dancing with the Stars" champ Helio Castroneves pleaded not guilty Friday to a seven-count tax evasion indictment.

It's a movie genre you don't hear much about in Hollywood: the right-wing comedy. For that matter, it's not much of a genre at all.

A bone fragment found in the area where Steve Fossett's plane crashed will be tested to determine whether it came from an animal or a human, a Madera County, California, sheriff's spokeswoman said Friday.

Fannie Mae said it will set aside the loan of a woman who shot herself as sheriff's deputies tried to evict her from her foreclosed home.

President Evo Morales said Saturday that Bolivia does not need U.S. help to control its coca crop, stepping up his anti-Washington rhetoric days after rejecting an American request to fly an anti-drug plane over the South American nation's territory.

A man in eastern Austria used a homemade firebomb to kill his wife's elderly parents, police said Saturday.

One of North America's renowned bird migration and birdwatching areas is strangely silent.