OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- Native American tribes tired of waiting for the U.S. government to honor centuries-old treaties are buying back land where their ancestors lived and putting it in federal trust.

Thanks to the original woodcarver, Seattle police have identified the owners of a Renton totem pole, which was stolen and then recovered alongside a West Seattle pole.

A gun-toting thug wearing a bulletproof vest tried to shoot at two cops in a Brooklyn housing project, but his gun jammed, police said Sunday. The officers were on patrol in the Marlboro Houses in Gravesend when they encountered Angel Rivera, 25,

Fire tore through an apartment early Monday, killing six children and three adults, officials said. The blaze was reported around 4 a.m., and firefighters worked into the afternoon, shoveling piles of burned debris

The Brooklyn home of the owner of Willoughby's Camera was "ransacked" Tuesday night by three robbers who locked two children in a bathroom and made off in the family Ferrari, police said.

An American Airlines jet skidded off a runway in Jamaica and broke apart Tuesday night, but miraculously no one was killed, officials said.

Five off-duty cops still partying after a police holiday bash were beaten outside a Queens nightclub, and the assailants are in the wind, the Daily News has learned

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. - Many hundreds of tourists visiting Virginia's historic revolutionary city of Colonial Williamsburg have benefitted from a live presentation of "So Far From Scioto," a story

An armed man took five people hostage Wednesday at a post office in a small, rural town, officials said. Shots were fired, but there were no reports of injuries. Police cordoned off a three-block area, and Virginia State Police sent in a SWAT team

It's the season for miracles, and it seems we have one happening in Eastern Idaho. For the past two days shoppers at the Dollar Tree store in Idaho Falls, have had random encounters with a group