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Relentless rain drenched much of the Atlantic seaboard Thursday, triggering coastal flood warnings and watches from North Carolina to New York's Long Island, inundating streets and forcing some rescues of stranded drivers in hard-hit Virginia. Read More

ACORN has filed a lawsuit claiming that Congress violated the Constitution when it passed a law cutting off federal funding to the organization. Read More

A spokesman for a Tennessee father arrested in Japan when he snatched his children from his ex-wife says authorities are dropping the case. Read More

One of sniper mastermind John Allen Muhammad's ex-wives says it was "very difficult" to watch her children grieve as their father was executed. Read More

The lawyer for a Massachusetts man accused of conspiring in an alleged terror plot says his client should be allowed home confinement without Internet access until his trial. Read More

North Carolina police said they were searching Thursday for a 5-year-old girl who vanished two days ago and have charged one man with kidnapping her. Read More

A Philadelphia man has pleaded guilty to killing a police officer during a robbery two years ago. Read More

The Colorado parents who reported their 6-year-old son floated away aboard a helium balloon will plead guilty to some charges and serve probation so that the family can stay together, the attorney for the boy's father said Thursday. Read More

The University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs will record an oral history of President George W. Bush's presidency. Read More

The USS New York has left its namesake city after finishing up its inaugural visit. Read More

The FBI is investigating a death threat against U.S. Rep. Brian Baird. Read More

Funerals are getting under way for some of the 11 victims whose bodies were found on the Cleveland property of a registered sex offender. Read More

Authorities say an early morning blaze swept through a house in Dallas, killing a couple and their 5-year-old son. Read More

Coast Guard boats, planes and helicopters searched the roiling ocean off Cape May on Thursday for three commercial fishermen whose boat sank, and colleagues of the missing men prayed for a miracle. Read More

An excavation was scheduled to resume Thursday at a rural western Missouri property where authorities believe they may find bodies and buried glass jars with notes written by children who may have documented sexual abuse. Read More

Relentless rain swept much of the Atlantic seaboard Thursday, triggering coastal flood warnings and watches from North Carolina to New York's Long Island, inundating streets and forcing some rescues of stranded drivers in hard-hit Virginia. Read More

Otty Sanchez got six weeks in a state mental hospital after she was found wandering around a drug store last year, shopping for an imaginary trip to China. Read More

Authorities in western Pennsylvania say a head-on crash killed three Edinboro University students. Read More

Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer is scheduled to speak at a Harvard University ethics forum. Read More

A Rhode Island mother is asking for the person who stole her 4-year-old son's wheelchair to return it, no questions asked. Read More