A mother who allegedly drove her daughter to a fight with a classmate and then watched and cheered her on has been arrested in Florida on charges of child abuse.

Authorities were waiting for daylight early Friday so they could begin assessing the damage from a reported tornado that killed one person and injured three others in central North Carolina.

Geologists said a 260-foot-deep sinkhole that grew to the length of three football fields over just two days seemed to be slowing down, but that it could take months before it's clear whether surrounding areas are stable.

National Park Service officials say the Death Valley ranch where Charles Manson was arrested will be closed for a second time this year to search for possible human remains.

Authorities are investigating a tip that a suspicious male resembling the sketch of the Boca Town Center murders suspect may have been at Aventura Mall recently.

Members of an anti-war group began gathering Friday with pink placards and banners outside of a controversial Marine Corps Recruiting Center in Berkeley, Calif., where Code Pink had promised to use witchcraft to rally against the Iraq war.

An Illinois man who fishes with a bow and arrow made the catch-of-a-lifetime in the Mississippi River.

Seven students suspected of being part of a drug trafficking ring at San Diego State University pleaded not guilty on Thursday.

Three Florida teens were arrested Thursday for allegedly sexually assaulting a teen girl on a school bus Tuesday, FOX 13 reported.

A convicted murderer is suspected of shooting and wounding two men on the Appalachian Trail a few miles from the spot where he killed two hikers in 1981, authorities said.

An Orlando man says he was sleepwalking when he inappropriately touched a girl in 2006.

An American Indian who shot a bald eagle for use in a tribal religious ceremony must stand trial, a federal appeals court has ruled.

Thirteen of the estimated 15 officers on hand during the Monday incident have been taken off the streets as investigators pore over the television news footage.

A construction company owner from Metairie who lost two homes in Hurricane Katrina claimed a $97 million Powerball prize Thursday, a jackpot won off a ticket he bought at a convenience store where he stopped to buy his wife a gallon of milk.

Hand-scrawled records taken from a polygamist sect are helping untangle the spider-web network of family relationships at the Yearning For Zion ranch, where some husbands had more than a dozen wives.

A pre-Mother's Day study released Thursday by Salary.com says if a stay-at-home mom were compensated in dollars for her services, she'd rake in nearly $117,000 a year.

The 55-year-old says he got a steak knife from the kitchen and made a small hole in his throat, allowing air to gush in.

New York Gov. Paterson pledges to explore undercover police procedures following unrest stemming from police acquittals in 50-shot killing of groom.

Three teenagers were arrested after two of them told police they dug up a secluded grave north of Houston, removed the skull from the coffin and converted it into a marijuana bong.

A 78-year-old legally blind man nicknamed "The Hammer" has bowled a perfect game.