Jurors in the federal corruption trial of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich were set to begin their deliberations Wednesday.

In decades past, your grandfather may have taken granny to the park, got down on one knee and proposed to her, with a sparkling ring in hand.

A computer hacker responsible for creating and operating a massive scam that infected as many as 12 million computers worldwide has been identified and arrested, authorities said Wednesday.

A Pakistani jet carrying 152 people crashed near Islamabad this morning, killing everyone onboard. The U.S. Embassy says American citizens were killed.

From the two-story care home where she lived in the northern English city of Bradford, 104-year-old Ivy Bean would tell her nearly 57,000 Twitter followers around the world what she got up to each day -- from eating fish and chips to sitting in the garden.

With scant hours to go before a controversial Arizona immigration law goes into effect, questions remained Wednesday when a federal judge will rule on seven suits seeking to block its implementation.

Kern County -- in southern California -- was under a state of emergency Wednesday as a result of spreading wildfires that have destroyed 25 homes, caused more than 2,300 people to evacuate and burned 15,000 acres.

NASCAR team owner Jack Roush was injured Tuesday evening in a private jet accident at an airport in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, according to organizers of an air show at the airport.

A University of Florida archaeologist found centuries-old bones this week, during a dig in northeastern Florida, authorities said.

A voice heard on an amazing video of 300 feeding alligators says it all.

The Utah Supreme Court has reversed Warren Jeffs' two convictions on charges of rape as an accomplice and ordered a new trial.

Outgoing BP Chief Executive Officer Tony Hayward declared Tuesday that the Gulf of Mexico oil well disaster represents a failure for the entire deepwater oil and gas drilling industry, not just for BP alone.

The man taking over BP says "there will be changes" in the oil industry because of the Gulf disaster. Robert Dudley is replacing Tony Hayward.

When unmanned aircraft crash in Afghanistan, scavenger hunters frequently aren't far behind, U.S. military incident reports published by WikiLeaks suggest.

Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Sen. John Kerry said Tuesday the importance of Afghanistan war documents leaked by the whistleblower website WikiLeaks.org should not be overstated.

Fans of multitouch-screen smartphones that let you scroll or zoom by flicking or pinching your fingers now will be able to interact with their desktops in the same way.

City council members in the small California town of Bell -- where outrage over high salaries forced three officials to resign last week -- voted Monday night to slash their pay.

The remains of an American sailor who went missing last week have been found in eastern Afghanistan, NATO's International Security Assistance Froce said Tuesday.

Days before Arizona's controversial law targeting illegal immigration takes effect, demonstrators are finalizing their plans to descend upon the state capital to show their support for or opposition to the measure.

As I sat on the White House lawn 20 years ago and watched President George H.W. Bush sign the Americans with Disabilities Act into law, I knew it was a grand day for disabled people. However, I also knew that we still had a long way to go.