President Barack Obama is hardly the consummate Western outdoorsman.  The Marlboro Man he’s not.

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger urges residents to heed mandatory evacuation orders as firefighters battled to control nearly a dozen blazes across the parched state.

The Mormon church’s support for Proposition 8, which banned gay marriage in California, has turned the faith into a lightning rod for gay rights activism, including a “kiss-in.”

Federal authorities will continue to investigate the 1964 Mississippi killings of three civil rights workers despite the death of a key suspect, the Justice Department says.

Family in tow for a tour of national parks, President Barack Obama is trailed by criticism from gun opponents and parks advocates for allowing firearms into such majestic places as Yellowstone.

A 72-year-old New York City shopkeeper has gunned down four men trying to rob his restaurant supply store but says he “didn’t want to do it.”

A nursing home worker let his ailing mother lie on the floor of their home for two days, stepping over her when he had to and not calling 911 until she was malnourished and dehydrated, police said.

A man convicted of helping run a “fight club” that set developmentally disabled residents of a Texas-run center against each other is sentenced to three years in prison.

Samir Megahed planned to take his oath as an American citizen Friday with an odd mix of pride and pain, knowing his adopted country considers his son a terrorist and is trying to deport him.

A dispute about bus advertisements seeking to publicize atheist views has created a free speech debate after the signs were removed — then posted again — on the sides of Des Moines city buses.