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An Iowa police chief said a dozen investigators are looking into whether the suspect in Monday's kidnapping of two girls is connected to last year's slaying of two cousins who vanished 90 miles away.

President Barack Obama is expected to shed some light on the secret U.S. drone program when he speaks at the National Defense University on Thursday. 

The parents of a 2-year-old boy who fell into a wild African dogs exhibit and was mauled to death last November filed a lawsuit Thursday against the Pittsburgh city zoo.

The eastern New Mexico peanut butter plant, which was shut down nine months ago after a salmonella outbreak, has resumed operations.

Federal prosecutors said Thursday five people have been arrested in the robbery of $4 million in jewelry in a heist, that started with the kidnapping of store employees in a town more than 40 miles away.

George Zimmerman's defense attorneys on Thursday released photos and text messages from Trayvon Martin's cell phone ahead of a hearing that will determine whether they can be used at trial.

An arts-and-craft store chain will appear in federal appeals court Thursday, where they will ask for an exemption from part of the federal health care law that is costing them millions of dollars in penalties.

Friends and family are attending funeral services for a 9-year-old girl killed by Monday's tornado in an Oklahoma City suburb.

An 84-year-old New Mexico woman on an oxygen tank has been indicted for drug trafficking, authorities said Thursday.

Bail has been set at $250,000 each for a Philadelphia couple who believe in faith healing over medicine and have had two children die of pneumonia.