Tropical Storm Fay continued its erratic path reaching the coast Wednesday and headed for the Atlantic Ocean, where it could strengthen and curve back toward Florida — possibly as a hurricane.

A quarter of a million schoolchildren were paddled in 2007 — and black children, American Indians and kids with disabilities got a disproportionate share, according to a study.

The abandoned ashes are stacked floor to ceiling in the basement of the Boston funeral home, tucked on shelves and in an unused dumbwaiter — part of a growing problem nationwide.

The demise of touch-screen voting has produced a graveyard of expensive corpses: Thousands of voting machines that have been shelved due to concerns about accuracy and security.

A shortage of interpreters may cause delays for many of those held at Guantanamo, lawyers say.

Poll workers can't take voting machines home for safekeeping in the days before the November presidential election — Ohio's elections chief says "sleepovers" are a security risk.

Federal government has been using its system of checkpoints to collect information on U.S. citizens crossing by land; data will be stored for 15 years.

Maudie White Hopkins, who grew up during the Depression in the hardscrabble Ozarks and married a Confederate army veteran 67 years her senior, has died. She was 93.

A Florida man was arrested after allegedly going on a violent rampage after a minor fender-bender, slashing and stabbing the occupants of a car, then running over and killing a woman who had been riding in another nearby vehicle.

Construction on "virtual fence" projects scheduled along Arizona's border with Mexico is on hold indefinitely because the Interior Department hasn't signed off on use of its lands, federal officials said Tuesday.

The city has agreed to pay $2 million to settle a lawsuit claiming 52 Iraq war activists were unjustly arrested, lawyers announced Tuesday.

The Pentagon is determined to overhaul training and active duty tours for the National Guard, but finding a way to give these part-time soldiers more time at home will cost more than $128 million.

Police said Tuesday they hadn't found any connection between slain Arkansas Democratic Party Chairman Bill Gwatney and a telephone number written with his last name on a Post-It note found in the home of the man who killed him.

Shasta Groene described how she and her 9-year-old brother, Dylan, were raped and forced to perform sex acts together by Joseph Edward Duncan III, whom she called "Jet."

John Lennon's killer told parole officials during his latest unsuccessful bid for release from prison that he is ashamed and sorry for gunning down the former Beatle nearly three decades ago.

A Bush administration rule barring states and local governments from requiring more air pollution monitoring is illegal, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.

A Montana woman pleaded guilty Tuesday to stealing the identity of a missing South Carolina woman to attend an Ivy League school in what her lawyer called a bid to escape a painful past.

A Texas judge has ordered a 14-year-old girl who was allegedly married to jailed polygamist leader Warren Jeffs to be placed in foster care.

Authorities said Tuesday they have accounted for 11 hikers who were missing after flooding struck a remote part of the Grand Canyon.