LOS ANGELES (AP) -- This sprawling metropolis is built atop one of the richest oil basins in the world. Wells dot the city landscape, some hidden behind hollow building facades much like a Hollywood movie set, or, in the case of Beverly Hills High School, encased in a tower painted with flowers....

EGG HARBOR CITY, N.J. (AP) -- Last month, the Northeast was smothered by blizzards. Now, it's waterlogged by torrential rains....

SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Investigators with Toyota Motor Corp. and the federal government could not replicate the runaway speeding reported by a Prius owner who said his car's accelerator stuck as he drove on a California freeway, according to a memo for a congressional panel....

LONDON (AP) -- With the West locked in conflicts across the Muslim world, why would anyone throw fuel on the fire?...

LEADVILLE, Colo. (AP) -- A Colorado woman who says she is the mother of an American held and later released in Ireland over an alleged plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist said Sunday she does not know where her daughter or grandson may be....

POWAY, Calif. (AP) -- Thousands of teachers, classmates and neighbors filled a high school stadium Saturday to honor a 17-year-old girl whose body was discovered in a shallow, lakeside grave as her parents vowed to dedicate themselves to protecting children from sex predators....

ATLANTA (AP) -- President Barack Obama is promising parents and their kids that with his administration's help they will have better teachers in improved schools so U.S. students can make up for academic ground lost against youngsters in other countries....