FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- A record-setting Burmese python was killed with a knife in a rural section of southern Miami-Dade County, after it wrapped itself around the leg of the man trying to capture it.

The monster python was 18 feet, eight ...

With the strokes from three gubernatorial pens, Vermont on Monday became the fourth state in the country to allow doctors to prescribe lethal medication to terminally ill patients.

Gov. Peter Shumlin signed the measure in a state House ceremony ...

CAIRO -- Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi ordered army reinforcements to the restive Sinai on Monday amid rising tensions there over the kidnapping of seven soldiers by suspected Islamist militants.

In a break from past practices, Morsi said he ...

WASHINGTON -- A labor union that represents federal officers who vet immigration applications has decided to oppose the immigration overhaul winding through the Senate, saying provisions in the bill could lead to fraud.

The proposed legislation ...

CHICAGO -- A McHenry, Ill., man is accused of threatening to kill State Department officials, including the U.S. Ambassador in Serbia, as well as Serbians in Chicago because of a visa dispute involving his wife in Serbia.

Russell K. Gordon, 48, ...

PHILADELPHIA -- A Philadelphia woman was sentenced to six years in prison Monday for stealing a rare bust of Benjamin Franklin from a Bryn Mawr home.

Prosecutors said U.S. District Judge C. Darnell Jones II also ordered 47-year-old Andrea Lawton ...