MIDDLETOWN, Pa. – A small amount of radiation has been detected in a reactor building at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in central Pennsylvania. About 150 employees were sent home after the radiation was detected Saturday afternoon, but officials say there is no public health risk. Exelon Nuclear …

A solitary wooden coffin smothered with white roses resting fifty paces from the goalmouth in Niedersachsen stadium in Hannover today became the focus of a nation in tears, the Sunday Times reported. Ministers, a former Chancellor, the national soccer squad, 45,000 fans in the terraces and an estimated two million …

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – Virginia State Police say they believe a Virginia Tech student missing for nearly a month was hitchhiking after she left a Metallica concert. Police said Friday that witnesses saw a woman fitting the description of 20-year-old Morgan Dana Harrington on a bridge that crosses railroad tracks trying …

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – A man will spend the rest of his life in prison after he was found guilty in what prosecutors said was a case of scaring a 79-year-old North Carolina woman to death. Multiple media outlets report a federal jury found Larry Whitfield not guilty of murder Friday …

General Motors Co. said Tuesday it will keep its European Opel unit and restructure it instead of selling a 55 percent stake to Canadian auto parts maker Magna International and its partner, Russian lender Sberbank. GM’s board of directors made the decision at a daylong meeting after determining that a …

WILMINGTON, Del. – Health officials say a Delaware Psychiatric Center patient has died after drinking cleaning fluid. Health and Social Services Secretary Rita Landgraf said Friday that the young man, who was expected to be discharged this week, died Aug. 27 at Wilmington Hospital. Landgraf says poison control told staff …

MOSCOW – The controversial Kremlin-backed president of Chechnya claims that militants in the violence-plagued Russian province are backed by U.S. and British intelligence agencies. Ramzan Kadyrov’s remark was probably the bluntest claim by a Russian official that insurgents in the restive North Caucasus have Western support. Western officials have dismissed …

Lawmakers in the House of Representatives were told they could go home for the week Thursday afternoon amid chaos and division over how to fundthe government in the next fiscal year, Fox News has learned. Votes had initially been expected on Friday and Saturday but members have now been advised …

The federal indictment against Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., of bribery is devastating. The senator enjoys the presumption of innocence, and an indictment only reflects the government’s side of the case, but the indictment contains a level of detail and a description of official acts taken by the senator that will …

A driver traveling the wrong way on a four-lane Georgia highway crashed into two other cars, killing all three drivers, state troopers said. The wreck happened Monday night on U.S. 27 near Roopville, south of Carrollton. Investigators say a Lincoln Town Car was traveling north in the highway’s southbound lanes …