The Pentagon is upsetting the nation’s governors by pushing for authority to call up military reservists for natural disasters — and to control how the troops would be used in any state.

An entire town is ordered to evacuate as 750 firefighters battle a fast-moving blaze in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

Mourners stream into a Cape Cod church to pay respects in a six-hour public wake for Eunice Kennedy Shriver.

A jury has found a former Corpus Christi State School employee guilty of causing injury to a disabled person in a high-profile “fight club” case.

Officials have ordered hundreds of residents to evacuate ahead of a fast-moving northern California wildfire.

A man has been sentenced to 12 years in prison in a beating that killed an Ohio preschool boy.

The remains of Navy pilot Michael Scott Speicher are being returned to his Florida home, 18 years after his FA-18 Hornet was shot down on the first night of the Gulf War in 1991.

Summer vacations say a lot about a president. President Obama will bring his notably calmer, cooler demeanor to Martha’s Vineyard, Mass., when he arrives Aug. 23 for a family vacation.

A 34-year-old man is in custody after authorities say he gave a teller his account number and showed her his picture ID before robbing an Anchorage bank.

A seldom-employed psychopath was sentenced to 120 years in prison Wednesday for making a huge cache of child pornography that shows him sexually assaulting a dozen children.