California's Supreme Court declared Thursday that gay couples in the nation's biggest state can marry - a monumental but perhaps short-lived victory for the gay rights movement that was greeted with tears, hugs, kisses and at least one on-the-spot proposal.
A forensic psychiatrist testified for the defense Thursday that a Maryland prison inmate accused of strangling another aboard a prison bus had told him two months earlier that his demons would make him kill unless he got psychiatric treatment.
Verizon doesn't repair phone lines quickly enough, Attorney General Bill McCollum said in a filing with state regulators Thursday seeking a fine against the phone giant.
The Washington region celebrated a milestone in the $2.5 billion Woodrow Wilson Bridge project in appropriate fashion - by inadvertently creating a massive traffic jam.
Family members of slain veteran Baltimore Police Officer Norman Stamp have notified the city they intend to file a wrongful-death lawsuit, their attorney said Wednesday.
The alleged illegal immigrant charged with killing a Marine and his date in a drunken-driving collision on Thanksgiving Day 2006 again will plead guilty to two counts of negligent manslaughter, his attorney said Wednesday.