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The U.S. Justice Department has sued a New Jersey town that blocked an Islamic group from building a mosque on property it owns.

The Dow Jones industrial average surpassed 19,000 for the first time Tuesday as a post-election rally drove indexes further into record territory.

The most expensive destroyer ever built for the Navy has suffered an engineering problem in the Panama Canal and had to be towed to port.

An atheist's request for a personalized license plate saying "IM GOD" was denied by the state of Kentucky, which said it might distract other drivers, and would be in bad taste.

Firefighters have made progress in battling many of the large wildfires burning in the Southeast, but several blazes continue to creep into new areas — and investigators say more fires are being lit each day by suspected arsonists.

The Pentagon says a U.S. military airstrike in Syria killed an al-Qaida leader with ties to militant movements across the Middle East.

County records show that the man arrested in the fatal shooting of a San Antonio detective got married in the hours after the officer was killed.

A Utah teenager accused of stabbing five classmates in a high school locker room has been charged with attempted murder.

A 19-year-old Utah man has been accused of forcing a man to dig his own grave before killing him and burning his body in a remote wooded area, prosecutors said.

President-elect Donald Trump backs waterboarding and his pick for CIA director has called those who have done it "patriots" not "torturers." Yet a Trump administration faces steep legal and legislative hurdles to reinstate the interrogation practice that simulates drowning.

It was a sight that Donald Stratton, a Pearl Harbor survivor, thought he would never see again.

An official says a police officer in Durham, North Carolina, was involved in a shooting at a public housing complex, but authorities were releasing few details.

The Virginia Court of Appeals has upheld the conviction of a man who was sentenced to six months in jail for hanging a black-faced dummy in his front yard.

Family and friends say a slain San Antonio police detective was a genuine and generous man who took seriously his job of protecting the community both on duty and off.

A Philadelphia police officer has been charged with shooting his son in the back during a dispute over the use of the family car.

A man who was accused of hiring prostitutes hundreds of times during his 20-year career as a Michigan prosecutor has been sentenced to a year in jail.

Authorities say firefighters have made progress against many of the large wildfires burning in the Southeast, but several blazes continue to creep into new areas — and they say more fires have been started by suspected arsonists.

At least one person was injured after an explosion occurred inside a Philadelphia apartment early Tuesday.

The Latest on Yale University settling a wrongful death lawsuit over the 2009 killing of a graduate student (all times local): 12:05 p.m.

A 24-year-old Ukrainian man who lied about his name and age to attend a Pennsylvania high school was sentenced Tuesday to 11½ to 23 months in jail for sexually assaulting a 15-year-old classmate and stealing a public school education.