Posted: 11:00 PM Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is warning commuters that a traffic mess awaits them in southwest Connecticut for as long as a week until service is restored to Metro-North following a derailment that injured scores of passengers.
Posted: 10:46 PM Five months into President Barack Obama's second term, allies and former top aides worry that his overarching goal of economic opportunity has been diminished, partly drowned out by controversies seized upon by Republicans in an effort to weaken him.
Posted: 11:27 PM Alaska's remote Pavlof Volcano has been shooting lava hundreds of feet into the air, but its ash plume is thinning and is no longer making it dangerous for airplanes to fly nearby.
Posted: 11:21 PM Investigators are looking into whether an elderly man driving a car in the Hikers Parade in Damascus, Virginia, suffered a medical emergency before his 1997 Cadillac suddenly accelerated into the crowd.
Posted: 11:16 PM Officials investigating a train collision in Connecticut have ruled out foul play and are studying a rail fracture where a derailed commuter train was struck by another bound for New York City.
Posted: 7:56 PM A college student in suburban Atlanta is accused of faking his own kidnapping to avoid telling his parents he was failing a class.
Posted: 6:35 PM A New York-area commuter railroad says two trains have collided in Connecticut, and there are preliminary reports of injuries.
Updated: 9:54 PM A jackpot of $550 million ranks as the second largest in Powerball history and third biggest overall.
Posted: 7:01 AM A review finds dozens of tea party groups and other conservative groups subjected to improper scrutiny by the Internal Revenue Service operate with small budgets and rarely displayed overt partisan activities.
Posted: 6:05 AM An Army sergeant was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without parole for the 2009 killings of five fellow service members at a combat stress clinic in Iraq.
Posted: 5:39 AM A Republican-controlled House panel moved Thursday to protect the Department of Homeland Security from the big cuts facing other domestic agencies under the party's budget slashing plan.
Posted: 5:13 AM The manager of the sexual harassment and assault response program at Fort Campbell, Ky., was arrested in a domestic dispute and relieved of his post, authorities said Thursday.
Posted: 4:32 AM President Barack Obama said Thursday the nation's military leaders told him they are "ashamed" of their failure to end sexual abuse in the armed services. Obama pledged to "leave no stone unturned" in the effort to halt the abuse, which he said undermines the trust the military needs to be effective.
Posted: 11:01 AM Forecasters say portions of the central United States could see severe weather this weekend and Monday.
Updated: 12:18 PM Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev left a note claiming responsibility for the April 13 attack on the Boston Marathon, reports CBS News senior correspondent John Miller.
Updated: 11:55 AM The winning numbers have been drawn for the $360 million Powerball jackpot.
Updated: 11:49 AM The jury that convicted a Philadelphia abortion doctor of first-degree murder today will return later this month to decide whether he should face the death penalty.
Posted: 11:36 AM Congress has approved large parts of NOAA’s spending plan under the Disaster Relief Appropriations Act of 2013 that will direct $23.7 million (or $25 million before sequestration), a so-called “Sandy supplemental” to the National Weather Service (NWS) for forecasting equipment and supercomputer infrastructure.
Updated: 9:10 AM Federal investigators say dozens of people have been charged in Medicare scams that collectively billed the taxpayer-funded program about $223 million in bogus charges.
Updated: 6:16 AM A drone the size of a fighter jet took off from the deck of an American aircraft carrier for the first time Tuesday in a test flight that could eventually open the way for the U.S. to launch unmanned aircraft from just about any place in the world.
Posted: 6:03 AM A U.S. Army general facing sexual assault charges is due back in court for a hearing on pre-tial motions.
Posted: 11:39 PM President Barack Obama says a government watchdog's report shows intolerable and inexcusable behavior by the Internal Revenue Service in targeting tea party groups.
Posted: 10:21 AM The man in the cowboy hat handcuffed to Lee Harvey Oswald when he was shot by Jack Ruby will receive the police commendation award.
