It is one of the few writing traditions that has not fallen by the wayside in the world of e-mailing and texting. But American children sending off letters to Santa Claus at the North Pole could be in for a disappointment this year - they are unlikely to

The battle against global warming could be helped if the world slowed population growth by making free condoms and family planning advice more widely available, the U.N. Population Fund said Wednesday.The agency did not recommend countries set limits on

Dream catchers are a popular symbol that represents Native-Americans, originally created to keep children from having nightmares. A dream catcher generally consists of a hoop with a web woven in it. Hanging from the hoop are fringes with feathers...

Authorities on Wednesday searched a rural property in western Missouri for bodies and buried glass jars containing notes written more than 15 years ago by children who may have documented sexual abuse by five members of their own family,children into fak

During World War II, the Japanese had expert English speakers who could intercept U.S. troop communications over telephones and radios to detrimental effect. So the armed services began using American Indian troops to send secret

Longtime CNN host Lou Dobbs shocked his viewers Wednesday by announcing that he would be leaving the network effective immediately.The daily host of "Lou Dobbs Tonight" addressed his viewers after giving the day's headlines and told them Wednesday's show

A Wisconsin man who made headlines earlier this year for allegedly running down deer with a snowmobile was charged Wednesday in a pedestrian's hit-and-run death five years ago.Prosecutors charged Rory Kuenzi, 25, with hit-and-run and vehicular homicide

As a registered sex offender, Anthony Sowell checked in regularly with law-enforcement authorities, who also monitored him by making home visits

A young Brooklyn teacher was killed Sunday when her drunken boyfriend - driving at three times the legal alcohol limit - crashed their car on their way home from a Halloween

MASHPEE, Mass. -- From a blustery perch over a Cape Cod beach, Chuckie Green gestures toward a stretch of horizon where he says construction of the nation's first offshore wind farm would destroy his Indian tribe's religion