ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - All four crew members were killed in a U.S. Air Force cargo plane that crashed in flames while practicing for an aviation show at Elmendorf Air Force Base, the Air Force said Thursday. The C-17 Globemaster went down Wednesday evening in a wooded area near airfield in ...

The lawsuits filed in the U.S. bankruptcy court in Manhattan collectively seek to recover more than $30 million, and are the latest effort by the trustee Irving Picard to recoup assets to be distributed to victims of Madoff's estimated $65 billion Ponzi scheme. One of the cases was filed against a ...

The street value of the marijuana destroyed in California's Sierra Nevada Mountains was put at $1.7 billion. Authorities destroyed some 270 acres of marijuana plants, which were irrigated and spread with fertilizer.

The U.S. embassy in Mexico City said in a statement on Thursday that the Ciudad Juarez consulate would "remain closed until the security review is completed." A U.S. enforcement official who declined to be named said the consulate had closed after receiving a "credible threat" ...

PHOENIX (Reuters) - Arizona on Thursday appealed a judge's decision to block key parts of the state's crackdown on illegal immigrants and police in Phoenix arrested scores of activists protesting the remaining measures in the law. Lawyers for Governor Jan Brewer and Arizona asked the 9th U.S. ...

HATTIESBURG, Miss./CHICAGO (Reuters) - Bob Dudley is not one to wear his disappointment on his sleeve. Even as a kid, "Bobby" as he was then known "was completely unflappable," remembers Charles Brent, Dudley's hometown friend in southern Mississippi in the 1960s.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Josephine Spearman alternately fought back tears and grew defiant with anger when discussing the murder of her son, one of 11 shootings in 15 days recently that have made the neighborhood of Brownsville, Brooklyn, one of the most dangerous in the United States. "You can ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York's attorney general has subpoenaed MetLife Inc and Prudential Financial Inc as part of a probe into whether life insurers are defrauding families of deceased military personnel by siphoning off millions of dollars of death benefits for themselves. "It is shocking ...

DETROIT (Reuters) - Oil spilled from a pipeline in Michigan does not present a threat to the Great Lakes and the spill has been contained on a river about 50 miles inland from Lake Michigan, federal officials said on Thursday. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials overseeing the cleanup ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - A dead whale was discovered pinned to the bow of a Princess Cruises luxury liner near Juneau, the third such incident involving the company's Alaska fleet in a decade, officials said on Thursday. The whale, believed to be an adult female humpback measuring 43 feet in ...