SAN DIEGO – The Minutemen anti-illegal immigration group is going from picketing to trash-picking on a strip of Southern California freeway. State transit officials granted the group’s San Diego chapter an Adopt-A-Highway stretch of Interstate 5 that includes the Border Patrol’s traffic checkpoint near San Clemente, about 70 miles from …

A once-suffering little girl is learning to enjoy life now that a bizarre tumor that caused her to begin menstruating at the age of 14 months has been removed, The New York Times reported. Grace Webster suffered until the age of 3 with a hypothalamic hamartoma or H.H., a benign …

WASHINGTON – A Justice Department audit of terror interrogations at three military bases overseas concluded Tuesday that FBI agents refused to participate when detainees were questioned under harsh and potentially illegal methods. The FBI clashed with the Pentagon and the CIA over how at least two top Al Qaeda operatives …

LOWVILLE, N.Y. – State police say a 12-year-old upstate New York boy is dead after he collided with his brother while riding off-road motorcycles. The crash left 16-year-old Christopher Beasock of Boonville in critical condition at University Hospital in Syracuse. Troopers said the brothers were riding dirt bikes with friends …

A little girl born almost 19 months ago after just 22 weeks gestation and weighing less than 10 ounces is well on her way to her terrible two’s, her mother told the Daily Mail. Amillia Sonja Taylor is the first known baby to survive after a gestation period of fewer …

JAIPUR, India – A previously unknown Islamic militant group claimed Thursday to have used explosive-laden bicycles to plant bombs that tore through this historic Indian city, warning in an e-mail of more attacks on popular tourists sites. The e-mail, a copy of which was obtained by The Associated Press, came …

BERLIN – Philipp Freiherr von Boeselager, believed to be the last surviving member of the inner circle of plotters who attempted to kill Adolf Hitler in 1944 with a briefcase bomb, has died. He was 90. The German military said in a statement Friday that the former army major died …

POMONA, Calif. – Small but dangerous wildfires broke out in bone-dry brushlands around Southern California on Friday as temperatures soared to triple-digit levels in some areas. Firefighters chased outbreaks of fire in five counties as the region withered under the influence of a high- pressure system expected to last into …

McALLEN, Texas – The U.S. Homeland Security director clarified that federal border agents would not impede a hurricane evacuation from south Texas by checking fleeing residents’ documents, a revision of plans confirmed by Border Patrol officials in the state only days earlier. Speaking at a hurricane preparedness gathering Tuesday at …

Three Florida teens were arrested on Thursday for allegedly sexually assaulting a teen girl on a school bus, FOX 13 reported. Pinellas, Fla., police officers arrested 18-year-old Branden Allen and two teen boys, 15 and 16, whose identities were not released because they are underage. All three suspects attend Dixie …