California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger urged residents to heed mandatory evacuation orders Saturday as 6,800 firefighters battled to control nearly a dozen blazes across the parched state.

Three sourpuss Parks Department agents put the squeeze on a 10-year-old girl in Riverside Park yesterday, slapping the tyke with a $50 ticket for hawking lemonade without a permit.

A tropical storm warning was issued Sunday for parts of Florida as a newly formed depression swirled about 90 miles off the coast.

Tropical Storm Claudette, the third storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, formed off the Gulf Coast of Florida Sunday, according to the National Hurricane Center.

Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett is in the hospital after he was attacked by person using a metal pipe as he was leaving the Wisconsin State Fair.

Tampa police have arrested two men after authorities said a fight over line-cutting at a food cart led to the death of one man and the serious injury of another.

Authorities say the bodies of a man and woman were found in an Orlando home along with dozens of exotic animals.

A graduate student who was imprisoned for a month in Iran and barred from leaving the country for nearly a year has returned to Los Angeles.

Juan Jesus Alvarez is suspected of hiring three men to kill a man he believed was dating his estranged wife

Cleveland County Sheriff Joe Lester said Thursday that detectives are trying to locate a potential witness in the death of Rebecca English.