A biologist says he believes a mysterious creature spotted in Alaska’s Lake Iliamna may in fact be nothing more spectacular than a large sleeper shark. Writing in the Alaska Dispatch, biologist Bruce Wright says he thinks the same kind of shark may be behind Scotland’s famous Loch Ness Monster as well. Pacific sleeper sharks, also

Experts wonder if the prosecution has made its case against John Edwards.

Tom Gabel, the lead singer of punk rock band Against Me!, says he’s becoming a woman.

Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown issued a statement today calling on Elizabeth Warren to release her law school applications in response to the questions about the recent revelations that she self-identified as Native American.

A Massachusetts man accused of stabbing his girlfriend to death as their daughter’s friend watched via an iPad video chat is being held in jail without bond today.

With Mitt Romney’s nomination all but decided, Ron Paul supporters wrested control of the Maine Republican Convention and elected a majority slate supporting the Texas congressman to the GOP national convention, party officials said as the two-day convention neared its end Sunday. The results gave the Texas congressman a late state victory

Officials say explosions and a fire at one of the world’s largest petrochemical industrial estates have killed 12 people and injured more than 100 others in eastern Thailand.The blasts Saturday forced …

Lee Hanson became deeply angry as the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks and co-defendants tried to undermine their arraignment on 3,000 counts of murder at a military court in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

I’ll Have Another ran down Bodemeister in the final furlong Saturday to win the Kentucky Derby, entering the winner’s circle despite a rookie jockey, a more famous stable pony, and a price tag of just $11,000 as a yearling.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney says he wanted an openly gay spokesman who resigned from the campaign to stay on.