A federal judge closed a filthy Rockland County kosher slaughterhouse Tuesday, saying the plant's dirty birds posed a health risk to the community.

CLEARWATER, Fla. -- An 11-year-old Florida girl and her 15-year-old boyfriend are accused of plotting to kill the girl's mother by setting her bedroom on fire while the woman slept Tuesday, police said.

Twenty-one people in 16 states have been infected in recent days with a potentially lethal strain of E. coli bacteria, after consuming beef in restaurants supplied by the same Oklahoma meat company, federal officials said

Gov.-elect Robert F. McDonnell (R) recently sent a letter to U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar asking him to allow for the exploration of oil and gas off Virginia's coast

Fairfax County authorities removed dozens of dogs, cats, birds and dead animals from a house on a quiet Mount Vernon street Tuesday after neighbors complained of foul odors, a county police spokeswoman said.

A Woodbridge woman who crashed her sport-utility vehicle into a tree two weeks ago and left an open container of alcohol and her 8-year-old daughter behind as she stumbled from the scene was found dead Tuesday

MOSCOW - Russia is considering sending a spacecraft to a large asteroid to knock it off its path and prevent its collision with Earth -- a collision NASA considers highly unlikely -- the head of the country's space agency said Wednesday.

MIDDLETOWN -- American Indian artifacts, some of which could date back thousands of years, were found on land designated for a $340 million coke oven facility.

She needs to call 911. She needs police to arrest the drunken boyfriend who assaulted her. She needs to go to the hospital, because she might be pregnant and he might be HIV-positive. And she needs a lawyer.

Wild horse advocates have launched a national campaign across the internet asking Americans to take a moment and write a short letter to President Obama asking him to ground the two helicopters rounding up herds of wild horses. The public is also asked