An 18-year-old is in police custody after he warmed up a bottle for a crying baby inside the house he was allegedly robbing.

Military helicopters winched dozens of people to safety and emergency workers in inflatable boats rescued scores more as floods swamped homes and roads Friday in northern England's picturesque Lake District. One police officer was missing after a bridge was swept away.

When officers smelled marijuana in the police station parking lot, they knew something was amiss in their own backyard.

Oprah Winfrey is set to announce that her powerhouse daytime television show will end its run in 2011 after 25 seasons on the air.

At a council meeting in Colorado, someone in a chicken costume quietly entered the chambers just as the mayor was discussing a recently-passed backyard hen ordinance.

A new report from gynecologists says that adolescent girls can wait until 21 to get their first pap smear and wait two years between tests.

Tim Lincecum has been so dominant in his first two full major league seasons that even his top bosses don't know how he can get much better.

Heidi Klum and her post-baby body led the parade at the annual Victoria's Secret fashion show.

The first county-by-county survey of obesity reflects past studies that show the rate of obesity is highest in the Southeast and Appalachia.

Chris Brown has received an "extremely favorable" report from probation officials overseeing his felony assault case, a judge said Thursday.

Two Web sites that sold songs by The Beatles for 25 cents apiece should remain shut down indefinitely, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.

A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the Army Corps of Engineers' failure to properly maintain a navigation channel led to massive flooding in Hurricane Katrina, a decision that could make the federal government vulnerable to billions of dollars in claims.

A tour bus returning from an Iowa casino ran off a southern Minnesota interstate and rolled over in a ditch Wednesday, killing two people and injuring 21, authorities said.

China's health minister says his country is vaccinating 1.5 million people a day against swine flu, part of a mammoth effort to reach nearly 7 percent of inhabitants of the world's most populous country by year's end.

The George W. Bush Presidential Center will be a modern brick and limestone building set amid a Texas-inspired landscape including wildflowers and prairies.

More than 1 million people will run out of unemployment benefits in January unless Congress quickly extends federal emergency aid, a nonprofit group said Wednesday.

Why did the Nazis hate the Jews? Why did the Hutus hate the Tutsis?

A list of witnesses in an upcoming competency hearing for a man charged in the abduction of Elizabeth Smart does not include his estranged wife, even though she has agreed to cooperate with prosecutors.

The head of U.S. naval forces in the Middle East is praising action by armed guards that foiled a pirate attack off the coast of Somalia.

The wife of one of six men charged in a child sex abuse case recently found material depicting incest that was hidden in the family's home, according to a search warrant.