The apparent suicide of a Nevada death-row inmate who said he wanted to die and tried several times to kill himself delays in his execution has renewed a debate about his treatment and the death penal...

Researchers with an environmental group are labeling as "disturbingly low" the number of western monarch butterflies that migrate along the California coast...

Officials say a Nevada death-row inmate who declared he wanted to die, but whose execution was postponed twice, has been found dead in his cell from an apparent hanging...

Zoo becomes latest victim of government shutdown, but thousands of animals still need to be fed, pregnancies need to be monitored and poop has to be scooped...

A Nebraska entomologist has named three of his eight newest beetle discoveries after the dragons from the HBO series "Game of Thrones" and George R.R. Martin book series "A Song of Ice and Fire."...

A researcher at Ohio State University has come up with a new app that has tips on spotting bed bugs and getting rid of them...

AP-NORC Poll: Public supports gene editing of embryos to prevent disease but not to create 'designer babies'...

Health officials are reporting an outbreak of bacterial infections in people who got injections of stems cells derived from umbilical cord blood...

Attorneys for the man charged with kidnapping and killing a Chinese University of Illinois scholar say the FBI searched his jail cell when he was in court...

It's a busy time for Santa Claus, but he's making time to feed some fish in San Francisco...