BOGOTA — The killing of a radio reporter by a motorcycle gunman reignited concerns Saturday about the safety of journalists in Colombia.

HAVANA — A moderate earthquake and smaller aftershock rattled houses and nerves in eastern Cuba on Saturday near the U.S. holding facility at Guantanamo Bay. No damages or injuries were reported.

WILLISTON, Fla. — Officials are saying that two small planes have collided over central Florida and the two pilots have been killed.

AUSTIN, Texas — Liz Carpenter, an author and former press secretary to first lady Lady Bird Johnson, died Saturday at an Austin hospital after contracting pneumonia earlier in the week, said her daughter, Christy Carpenter. Carpenter was 89.

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. — Police have been overwhelmed since they released more than 100 photos found in a serial killer’s storage locker, more than 30-year-old pictures of unidentified girls and women in bell bottoms, bikinis and Farrah Fawcett hair.

One by one, Democratic fence-sitters began choosing sides Friday, and the long, turbulent struggle over landmark health care legislation tilted unmistakably in President Barack Obama’s direction.

President Barack Obama delivered a closing argument for the goal to which he has devoted much of his presidency, urging lawmakers on Friday to pass a sweeping overhaul of the U.S. health care system in a long-awaited vote this weekend

Slowly but steadily, support is building behind President Barack Obama’s health care legislation in the House, the result of intense lobbying and politically targeted changes aimed at reassuring waverers and winning over critics.

The Boy Scouts of America has long kept an extensive archive of secret documents that chronicle the sexual abuse of young boys by Scout leaders over the years. The “perversion files,“ a nickname the Boy Scouts are said to have used for the documents, have rarely been seen by the public, but that could all change in the coming weeks in an Oregon courtroom.

Faulkner State Community College assistant basketball coach and two other men have been arrested on crack cocaine charges. Officers with the Baldwin County Drug Task Force served a warrant Wednesday, resulting in the arrests of 25-year-old Marcus Nicholas Grant, 45-year-old Charles Ricks and 55-year-old Tommy McReynolds.

A judge in Macon County is considering whether to extend an order that allowed Alabama’s largest casino to reopen March 5. Circuit Judge Tom Young has a hearing scheduled at 9 a.m. Friday in Tuskegee.

The next few months could keep Conan O’Brien very busy. For starters, he needs to keep posting those random tweets on his recently opened Twitter account. Then in April, he hits the road for a cross-country comedy tour that’s scheduled to last two months. And by mid-May, he just might be anointed by Fox as its late-night leading man, when the network’s program lineup for next season is officially unveiled.

School districts have imposed all sorts of drastic cuts to save money during the down economy, canceling field trips and making parents pay for everything from tissues to sports transportation. And some have now resorted to placing advertisements on school buses.

A newspaper is reporting that a Lancaster County couple believes an underwater snapshot they took off the coast of Aruba reveals human remains on the ocean floor.

For the super-rich and everyone else, the economic recovery is taking place in two very different gears.

President Barack Obama is backing an immigration bill outline drafted by two senators that says illegal immigrants must admit they broke the law to become citizens

President Barack Obama has said he wants to focus laser-like on the public’s top concern: jobs. But the ongoing effort to remake the nation’s health care system keeps getting in the way.

Democratic leaders are unveiling what is expected to be their final health care bill Thursday, setting the stage for a Sunday vote on a plan that would affect most Americans and has become the defining issue in Barack Obama’s presidency

President Barack Obama is set to sign a jobs bill into law Thursday morning

House Democrats are on track for a Sunday vote on sweeping health care legislation that will expand coverage to millions of uninsured while also reducing the federal deficit, leaders said Thursday.

Pushing toward a history-making vote, Democrats struggled to eliminate lingering complications standing in the way of House action this weekend on President Barack Obama’s landmark health care overhaul. Their drive to change the way health care is administered and extend coverage to millions of uninsured Americans took on a growing sense of inevitability.

A legal tussle pitting media conglomerate Viacom Inc. against online video leader YouTube is about to get dirtier as a federal judge prepares to release documents that will expose their secrets and other confidential information. The information expected to be unsealed Thursday will include some of the evidence that Viacom and Google-owned YouTube have collected to prove their respective points.

The NCAA tournament is famous for the little guys shocking the marquee powerhouses and turning into the darlings of March. Upsets happen. In every region, every year. With one lopsided exception: No. 1 vs. No. 16.

A new report shows Alabama’s prison population continued to increase last year while the number of inmates declined nationwide.The report by the Public Safety Performance Project of the Pew Center on the States shows the number of inmates housed by the state was 31,561 on Jan. 1, an increase of 3.5 percent from a year earlier.

The University of Alabama has partnered with the University of North Alabama to offer a doctorate in education at the Huntsville school. If the plan is approved by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, students will be able to start working on their University of Alabama Doctor of Education degrees in the fall.

The growing front in the war on terrorism may be no farther than Main Street

Idaho took the lead in a growing, nationwide fight against health care reform Wednesday when its governor became the first to sign a measure requiring the state attorney general to sue the federal government if residents are forced to buy health insurance

President Barack Obama’s much-challenged health care overhaul gained traction Wednesday as a liberal lawmaker became the first to switch his opposition and Roman Catholic nuns declared their support in an unusual public break with their bishops

Stocks rose Wednesday after U.S. and Japanese central banks reaffirmed plans to keep interest rates low to revive economic growth

Companies that hire unemployed workers get a temporary payroll tax holiday under a bill headed for likely Senate passage Wednesday