Camp Pendleton's commanding general has ordered a Marine to be tried on a murder charge in the killing of an unarmed detainee in Fallujah, Iraq.

A highway patrol official says O.J. Simpson's girlfriend has been seriously injured in a car accident in Miami.

Ford Motor Co. is recalling more than 655,000 Ford F-150 and Lincoln Mark LT pickup trucks to fix a hose that could affect the vehicles' braking power.

Police say they've arrested a man who was seen sparking a small blaze in a town on Florida's Atlantic coast where wildfires have gutted at leat 40 homes.

A woman accused of booking clients for a prostitution ring has pleaded guilty in the federal probe that brought down former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer.

Dennis Quaid is urging Congress to open the way for individuals to sue pharmaceutical companies.

Nationwide, 243,353 homes received at least one foreclosure-related filing in April.

Government officials say the Interior Department has decided to protect the polar bear as a threatened species because of global warming.

Predictions about cell phone domination are apparently coming true.

The House has voted 385 to 25 to halt oil shipments into the government's emergency petroleum reserve, saying the oil ought to be put on the market to lower energy prices.