Some hospitals report seeing more than twice as many shaken babies as a year ago. Deaths from domestic violence have increased sharply in some areas.

New York officials said Friday they found no trace of salmonella in a Long Island nut processing plant whose sister company sparked a vast nationwide recall of pistachios last week.

A Boston hospital has performed the nation's second partial face transplant on a man who suffered traumatic facial injuries from a freak accident.

A man convicted of murdering an Arizona couple by tying them to an anchor and throwing them overboard from their yacht off Southern California was sentenced to death Friday.

Officials with the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency say a reported tornado has killed two people and injured 30 in the central part of the state.

At a memorial service attended by 10,000 people Thursday, each was remembered as a hero, someone who found his calling in uniform and carrying out the motto: To protect and serve.

The autopsy of an Alabama baby was so badly botched a judge dismissed a murder charge against the mother Thursday.

Two teens arrested in New Mexico on suspicion of burglary and theft had planned a shooting spree at a rural southwestern Colorado high school as early as this week, according to a sheriff who said he was among the targets.

Gusting winds and dry conditions fueled wildfires across Texas and Oklahoma on Thursday, destroying or damaging homes, forcing evacuations and shutting down parts of a major highway in Oklahoma.