Just three years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans confronts a new threat from Gustav and a stark question: Will the partially rebuilt levees hold?

With Gustav showing no signs of veering off a track to slam into the Gulf Coast, authorities began laying the groundwork Thursday to get the sick, elderly and poor away from the shoreline.

Barack Obama will blame America’s economic and foreign policy problems on “a broken politics in Washington and the failed presidency of George W. Bush” when he accepts the Democratic presidential nomination Thursday night.

Drunken-driving deaths fell in 32 states in 2007, the government reported Thursday, but alcohol-related fatalities increased among motorcycle riders in half the states.

A former Marine accused of killing unarmed Iraqi detainees has been acquitted of voluntary manslaughter in a first-of-its-kind federal trial.

Fire officials say a scaffold has collapsed over a walkway at a downtown San Diego construction site, injuring 16 pedestrians.

A mother intentionally put her month-old daughter in a microwave oven and cooked the child to death after a fight with her boyfriend, a prosecutor told jurors Thursday.

The families of 12 Nepali men killed by Iraqi insurgents have filed a federal lawsuit accusing defense contractor KBR Inc. and a Jordanian subcontractor of human trafficking.

As New Orleans residents keep an eye on the movement of a storm named Gustav, there's a new report on the deaths from Hurricane Katrina, which hit the gulf coast three years ago Friday.

Defense attorneys filed 95 letters in court Wednesday night as part of a bid to get Abramoff out of prison early.  They describe him as a humbled, changed man whose family is suffering.

Tanned, dirty and hungry, two men who spent three months crossing the Pacific on a raft made of plastic bottles to raise awareness of ocean debris finally stepped onto dry land.

John A. "Junior" Gotti entered a not guilty plea Thursday to federal racketeering charges that link him to three mob slayings, cocaine distribution and other crimes.

Almost 12 percent of the deaths among American Indians and Alaska Natives are alcohol-related — more than three times the percentage in the general population, a new federal report says.

One man appears determined to crash the party at the Playboy Mansion.

Many veterans of the March on Washington will gather at televisions Thursday night and watch an event they would have considered impossible not just in 1963, but perhaps in 1983, or 1993.

Authorities said Thursday that a Georgia county's school district has become the third in the nation in 40 years to lose its accreditation.

A Maine woman says she’d rather go to jail than turn over a library book she deems “dangerous.” And she may get her chance.