Updated: 10:57 PM Moist, cool and calm weather is greatly helping Southern California firefighters battling a huge wildfire in coastal Ventura County.

Updated: 4:57 PM Firefighters say some businesses in a strip mall in Catoosa were destroyed and some were damage by fire.

Posted: 4:45 PM A dustup over a wayward remote-control helicopter that became lodged in a statue atop a north-central Ohio courthouse came to an anticlimactic ending on Saturday.

Updated: 4:51 PM Shelby Rogers of Charleston, S.C., gets a chance to make her debut in the French Open's main draw after earning a wild card from the U.S. Tennis Association based on clay-court results on the USTA Pro Circuit.

Posted: 4:24 PM Faced with hefty operating costs, the foundation building the 9/11 museum at the World Trade Center has decided to charge an admission fee of $20 to $25 when the site opens next year.

Updated: 10:04 AM A gas leak from a natural gas line is causing traffic delays in south College Station

Posted: 10:59 PM American officials say Israel launched an airstrike against a suspected weapons site in Syria.

Posted: 9:05 PM A fast-moving Southern California wildfire burning through coastal wilderness has nearly tripled in size since morning, growing to more than 43 square miles.

Posted: 9:02 PM Former Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin says recent mass shootings have prompted leaders in Washington, D.C., to exploit tragedy in order to limit the freedoms of law-abiding people.

Posted: 3:27 PM The stock market is surging past new milestones after the government reported a big pickup in hiring at U.S. employers.

Posted: 1:14 PM A federal judge has declined to throw out a 2010 environmental lawsuit against ExxonMobil Corp. over emissions from its Baytown oil refinery.

Posted: 12:57 PM The incoming president of the National Rifle Association is warning its members they are fighting a "culture war" that goes beyond gun rights.

Posted: 10:12 AM U.S. employers added 165,000 jobs in April, and hiring was much stronger in the previous two months than first thought. The gains trimmed the unemployment rate to a four-year low of 7.5 percent.

Updated: 8:05 AM The Navy on Thursday inaugurated its first squadron with both manned and unmanned aircraft amid debate over the military's burgeoning use of drones in warfare.

Updated: 8:15 AM Research is underway in order to create a more accurate and faster warning system for severe weather in the United States. The ultimate goal is to protect life and property, while giving residents, in the path of hazardous weather, time to react.

Posted: 6:30 AM A former contractor at NASA's Langley Research Center has been ordered to leave the United States within 48 hours as part of a plea agreement.

Updated: 8:10 AM Fire officials say they will dispatch a hazardous materials team to deal with a store of highly toxic pesticides that have caught fire in a massive Southern California wildfire.

Posted: 8:51 PM President Barack Obama says there's another reason it's important to overhaul the U.S. immigration system: It's the amount of business conducted between the United States and Mexico.

Updated: 10:53 PM A thunderstorm outbreak isn't something that typically goes unnoticed in a forecast. The big questions to meteorologists is normally "do these storms have the potential to become severe?" That is the question the Storm Prediction Center hopes to answer, hours before storms fire up.

Posted: 11:28 AM A suspect in a North Texas double slaying has been caught in Oklahoma and charged with killing his ex-girlfriend and her 8-year-old son.

Posted: 7:30 AM As Stephanie Sparks cleaned the kitchen, her 5-year-old son, Kristian, began playing with a rifle he was given last year. She stepped out onto the front porch, poured grease out of a frying pan for the dogs and "heard the gun go off," a Kentucky coroner said.

Posted: 7:21 AM The U.S. Air Force says it disciplined five former commanders at a San Antonio base for not reporting problems quickly or taking appropriate action in what has turned into the military branch's worst sex scandal.

Posted: 7:07 AM A Coast Guard petty officer has been sentenced to two years in prison for going on a $230,000 personal spending spree with a government credit card.

Posted: 6:48 AM One of three college students arrested Wednesday in the Boston Marathon bombings case was allowed to return to the United States from Kazakhstan in January despite not having a valid student visa, a federal law enforcement official told The Associated Press.

Posted: 5:58 AM Three congressmen are proposing legislation on the eve of the Kentucky Derby that would crack down on doping in horse racing.