A foundation devoted to education about and treatment of flesh-eating bacteria cites government figures estimating 500 to 1,500 cases occur in the United States each year. But media coverage of these cases is rare, so the story of a Georgia grad student fighting the disease may help raise awareness, the foundation's co-founder says.

Just over two weeks after the shooting, police urged prosecutors to take George Zimmerman into custody after arguing his killing of Trayvon Martin was "ultimately avoidable."

Ballistics tests have linked the shooting deaths of two people along roadways in Mississippi, a source who has been briefed on the investigation said Thursday.

The remaining plaintiff in the sexual battery lawsuit against John Travolta fired his lawyer, bringing an end to the case, the lawyer told CNN on Thursday.

Mississippi's Supreme Court on Thursday denied the state attorney general's attempt that it reconsider its assent to controversial pardons -- several of them for convicted killers -- issued earlier this year by outgoing Gov. Haley Barbour.

Friends may be priceless. But 'friending' is worth $38 a share.

Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner drew a hard line in the sand this week, renewing a battle over the debt ceiling unless President Barack Obama agreed to significant budget cuts during what may be a lame-duck session after the November elections.

Closing arguments concluded Thursday afternoon in the corruption trial of John Edwards, after his defense team rested its case without calling the former Democratic presidential candidate's ex-mistress to testify.

Thieves must have something against Justice Stephen Breyer.

Ingo Walter and Jennifer Carpenter: Focus on changing the risk incentives of banks rather than the level of executive pay

Troublesome weather conditions hampered recovery efforts Friday as teams combed a steep mountainside where a Russian jetliner crashed on a demonstration flight in Indonesian this week.

Rebekah Brooks, a former newspaper editor and News Corp. executive, began testifying Friday over her links to politicians at a U.K. government-backed inquiry into phone hacking and press ethics.

Two girls kidnapped after their sister and mother were killed have been found alive in Mississippi. Alleged abductor Adam Mayes killed himself, the FBI says.

Russia condemned the massive bombings that killed dozens in Syria and accused outside nations of instigating violence to heighten the 14-month uprising that has left thousands dead.

A third suspect was arrested in the California death of a deployed Marine's wife, authorties said.

Greece may have given us the word democracy and many of the principles of civil society. But now it is "the sick man of Europe," and the people of other European democracies are asking whether it's worth saving with billions more dollars of their money. Put crudely, their argument is this: So what if Greece slides ignominiously out of the eurozone?

New details are emerging about the man sent by Saudi counterterrorism agents into Yemen as a mole when it emerged that al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula was developing another airline bomb plot.

Florida A&M University band director Julian White, who had been under pressure to step aside after the hazing-related death of a band member, is retiring, his attorney announced Thursday.

Vice President Joe Biden has apologized to President Barack Obama for comments that forced Obama's hand on same-sex marriage, administration officials say.

A part-time stripper fired from her full-time newspaper job covering Texas high society claims she's a victim of gender discrimination.