ANGELS CAMP, Calif. (AP) -- State investigators were trying to determine what caused a spinning carnival ride at a county fair to collapse and injure all 24 people aboard....

The NAACP board of directors has chosen Ben Jealous, a 35-year-old former news executive and lifelong activist, as the organization's next president and the youngest in its 99-year history....

LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) -- Two rail cars have jumped the track and overturned in southern Louisiana, leaking hydrochloric acid and forcing police to evacuate thousands of residents within a 1-mile of the accident....

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- Police found three decomposing bodies with multiple stab wounds inside a northern New Jersey home Friday night, a prosecutor said....

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Hours before the California Supreme Court issued its decision on gay marriage, Mayor Gavin Newsom heard rumblings that the justices would uphold the state's ban....

DAISETTA, Texas (AP) -- The giant Texas sinkhole that formed last week is now a lake big enough to become the home of an alligator....

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) -- Olympian Tim Montgomery had everything he ever wanted. Once known as the "world's fastest man," Montgomery won a silver medal in the 400 relay at the 1996 Olympics and gold in the same event in 2000. In 2002, he set a record of 9.78 seconds in the 100-meter dash....