An Ohio community of 3,200 people was told to flee Monday because of fires apparently caused by natural-gas line pressure problems.

Two people froze to death, including one woman whos frozen body was found on a driveway, as an Arctic blast hit the northern U.S., dropping temperatures as low as minus 36 degrees.

A North Carolina woman who raised a child snatched from a New York hospital more than two decades ago was scheduled to appear Monday in federal court to face kidnapping charges.

An explosion ripped through the arrivals hall at Moscow's busiest airport on Monday, killing 35 people and wounding about 130, officials said.

Devastating floods in Brazil's Rio de Janeiro state have killed more than 800 people, according to new government figures.

(CNN) -- The man who opened fire on officers inside a Detroit police station had a relative who is scheduled to be sentenced for double homicide Monday, said the city's police chief, who he would not confirm that as the motive behind the attack.

Andy Dalton threw a touchdown pass and ran for a score, Carder batted down a 2-point conversion pass attempt with 2 minutes to play, and third-ranked TCU hung on to beat No. 4 Wisconsin 21-19 on Saturday.

Baltimore Orioles pitcher Alfredo Simon surrendered to National Police early Monday morning to face murder charges in the death of Michael Esteban Castillo, 25, police said.

Many New York residents have been piling criticism on city officials over heaps of snow and uncollected garbage lining streets after last week's blizzard. But trash bags left on one curbside may have saved a man's life, police said.

Three people were shot in the city's West Ward tonight, but their injuries did not appear life-threatening, police said.

A baby girl born at Trinitas Regional Medical Center in Elizabeth is believed to be the first baby to arrive in New Jersey in 2011.

The number of birds that fell on this Arkansas town on New Year's Eve night is now estimated at 4,000 to 5,000, a wildlife official told msnbc.com, up sharply from the initial estimate of 1,000.

Already with no equal in women's basketball, UConn won its 88th straight game Sunday to match the men's record set by coach John Wooden and his UCLA teams from 1971-74. Tiffany Hayes scored 26 points and Maya Moore added 22 to help the top-ranked Huskies rout No. 11 Ohio State 81-50 in the Maggie Dixon Classic at Madison Square Garden.

reathtaking 65-yard punt return for the winning touchdown on the final play of the game. The Eagles scored 28 points in the final 7:18 and beat the New York Giants 38-31 on Sunday, a bitter loss that revived memories of "The Miracle at the Meadowlands" in 1978.

The business deal looked fairly straightforward. Last week, American basketball star Kobe Bryant agreed to become the new celebrity face of Turkish Airlines, a growing international carrier.

Violent crime in the United States dropped markedly in the first half of 2010, according to FBI statistics released Monday. Overall violent crime fell 6.2% from the same period last year, according to the report, and the new numbers include a 7.1% decrease in homicide.

Israeli authorities are investigating whether the attack that left an American woman dead and her friend injured was "nationalistic," a police spokesman said Monday, using a term for crimes in which a victim is targeted based on an Arab or Israeli background. American Kristine Luken died in the attack.

British counter-terror police arrested 12 men early Monday in a "large-scale, pre-planned, intelligence-led" operation, they said.

After days of concern about possible North Korean aggression over a South Korean military drill, the live-fire naval exercise ended peacefully after an hour and 34 minutes with no immediate retaliation.

children who were taken hostage at a school in eastern France Monday were released unharmed and the man who held them was arrested, the mayor of the town of Besancon told CNN.