LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab received the best schooling, from the elite British International School in West Africa to the vaunted University College London, but the education he wanted was of a different sort: Nigerian officials say his interest in extremist Islam prompted his father to warn U.S. authorities. ...more

December 27, 2009

ASPEN, Colo. (AP) — Authorities say actor Charlie Sheen has been accused of using a weapon in an alleged case of domestic violence in Aspen. ...more

December 27, 2009

A Christmas night fire that destroyed a mobile home on Seminole Boulevard is being investigated as a possible arson. ...more

December 27, 2009

An Al-Qaida operative in Yemen threatened the United States and said "we are carrying a bomb" in a video posted online four days before the botched Christmas Day attempt to blow up a Northwest Airlines flight. ...more

December 27, 2009

It's been a rough year for Shaunda Silas, her 8-year-old daughter Anna, and 15-year-old son Randall from Tampa. ...more

December 26, 2009

Nelson fails 'gut check' Editor's note: The following letter was written to Florida Sen. Bill Nelson and is reprinted here at the author's request. ...more

December 26, 2009

For the first time in his 19 years, James Wright will be 3,000 miles away from his family on Christmas Day. ...more

December 25, 2009

Not a creature was stirring on Christmas Eve, the old poem says. But no holiday has more power to stir emotions. ...more

December 25, 2009

Christmas is, at last, upon us. The audible sigh across the land arrives from parents who acknowledge, for better or worse, that they have done what they could (and possibly more than was warranted). ...more

December 25, 2009

Did you hear about the little boy who asked Santa for a baby sister last year? ...more

December 25, 2009