Postmaster General acts on consolidation plan

Mayor says 18 firefighters and seven police officers would be cut; Two fire stations would close if state cuts off funding

A Boston University student appeared in a New Zealand court Friday on charges of careless driving over a car crash last weekend that claimed the life of three classmates and left another woman in critical condition.

A strong 6.2-magnitude earthquake has struck off Chile's southern coast, but the authorities say it wasn't felt on land and discounted the possibility of a tsunami.

A notorious drug dealer who got his start during the crack epidemic of the 1980s and was so good at hiding his whereabouts that he was known as "the ghost" has been arrested along with dozens of others on new charges, police and prosecutors said Thursday.

President Barack Obama on Thursday declared a new chapter in U.S. relations with Myanmar, easing an investment ban and naming the first U.S. ambassador to the former pariah state in 22 years to ...

Trayvon Martin was shot through the heart at close range. George Zimmerman had a broken nose, bruises and bloody cuts on the back of his head.