Posted: 11:43 PM Secretary John Bryson will take a medical leave of absence, the White House announced Monday. He has no history of seizures, an official says. Bryson is still under investigation for possible felony hit-and-run.
Posted: 10:52 PM The first witness in Jerry Sandusky's trial said the former Penn State assistant football coach sexually abused him as a young teenager on campus and in hotels and later sent him "creepy love letters."
Posted: 10:47 PM Twitter aired its first-ever television ad Sunday during the 2012 Pocono 400 Nascar race.
Posted: 10:44 PM Authorities say a father used his hands to beat to death a man who allegedly tried to sexually assault his 4-year-old daughter on their farm.
Posted: 10:20 PM Alabama authorities closed in on the attic of a Montgomery home late Monday, believing they had trapped the man accused of killing three people and wounding three others near Auburn University.
Posted: 10:15 PM U.S. Secretary of Commerce John Bryson, under investigation for possible felony hit-and-run after allegedly causing two weekend car accidents in California, will take a medical leave of absence "as he undergoes tests and evaluations," White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said Monday night.
Posted: 9:19 PM Police have surrounded a Montgomery home tonight, believing slaying suspect Desmonte Leonard is inside. Two other men have been accused of hindering prosecution, and two of the three dead were former Auburn University football players.
Posted: 8:24 PM A North Georgia chapter of the Ku Klux Klan has applied to "adopt" a stretch of highway in Union County, Georgia, according to paperwork obtained by CNN on Monday.
Updated: 8:22 PM Apple has unveiled a new MacBook Pro laptop with a high resolution screen. The company also announced improvements to its Siri voice "assistant" in Monday's update.
Updated: 8:21 PM Flood warning remains in effect in parts of Alabama tonight. Parts of West Pensacola, Florida, got 23.6 inches of rain from the storms. Officials in Escambia County expect damage there to total more than $20 million.
Posted: 8:20 PM "Good Morning America" co-anchor Robin Roberts faces an MDS diagnosis, a disease attacks blood and bone marrow. The ABC host's sister says she's a "perfect match" for a marrow transplant.
Posted: 7:57 PM The RQ-4A Global Hawk was on a training mission, the Navy says. The drones cost $176 million each. No one was hurt and no property was damaged, according to the Navy.
Updated: 9:00 PM This year's Tony's ratings were down significantly from last year.
Posted: 6:32 PM A man doused his ex-girlfriend in gasoline and then set her on fire.
Posted: 6:25 PM A freezer malfunction at a Harvard-affiliated hospital has severely damaged one-third of the world's largest collection of autism brain samples, potentially setting back research by years, scientists said Monday.
Posted: 6:24 PM Robert F. Kennedy Jr. accused his estranged wife, Mary, of abusing his children from an earlier marriage, including stealing items from his young daughter, showing up uninvited on trips he took after they separated and sometimes calling him dozens of times a day, according to a legal filing revealed Sunday.
Posted: 6:22 PM Apple announced Monday updates to their MacBook Pro line, introducing the company's next generation MacBook Pro.
Posted: 6:16 PM A large boat exploded off the coast of New Jersey near the town of Sandy Hook, sending nearly two dozen passengers overboard and causing several injuries, reports NJ.com.
Posted: 5:22 PM Nobel prize amounts will be cut by 20% in 2012, the foundation that runs the program announced Monday.
Posted: 5:17 PM The lawyer for Dharun Ravi, the former Rutgers University student found guilty of spying on and intimidating his gay roommate, has filed a notice of appeal, a court official said.
Posted: 5:09 PM A sprawling wildfire in northern Colorado grew larger than the nearby city of Fort Collins on Monday, racing across a crackling dry landscape at up to 40 feet a second, spitting flames as far as 300 feet into the air and forcing thousands out of their homes.
Posted: 4:50 PM Hidden for nearly 100 years for being too "graphic," a report of "hooligan" behaviors, including sexual coercion, by Adelie penguins observed during Captain Scott's 1910 polar expedition have been uncovered and interpreted.
Posted: 4:44 PM A man hitchhiking across the country and writing a memoir called "The Kindness of America" was shot along a rural highway near northeastern Montana's booming Bakken oil patch, authorities said Monday.
Posted: 4:41 PM Chrysler has added more than 137,000 Jeep Liberty SUVs to a March safety recall, bringing the total number of vehicles affected to nearly 347,000.
Posted: 4:39 PM New data released today by the FBI show that, overall, violent crime was down about four percent in 2011. However, there were some notable increases, including burglary, and murder in cities with fewer than 25,000 people.
