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A fire burned a fabric shop, upstairs apartments and a neighboring boutique Saturday evening, causing a partial roof collapse that killed a firefighter and injured a colleague who tried in vain to rescue him.

Michigan will advance to play Louisville in the NCAA championship game after beating Syracuse 61-56 in the Final Four. Earlier, Louisville beat Wichita State, 72-68. Here are some images from both games.

A body believed to be that of Nevada's missing chief insurance examiner was found wrapped in a blanket and bound with duct tape Saturday in a river in Carson City, and four suspects were arrested in the case, authorities said.

Authorities in eastern Idaho are investigating the shooting deaths of two men and a woman whose bodies were found in a home that contained a marijuana grow operation.

Authorities say a Metrolink commuter train has collided with a dump truck in Los Angeles, leaving 13 people with minor injuries.

Authorities say a 62-year-old man was killed after falling 60 feet in a rock climbing accident in Colorado.

A memorial service for grocery store magnate Eddie Basha drew thousands of attendees, including U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and five other former Arizona governors.

The 27-year-old son of popular evangelical Pastor Rick Warren has committed suicide at his Southern California home, Warren's church and authorities said on Saturday.

Family and friends who lost loved ones when the USS Thresher sank 50 years ago joined in tossing wreaths into the water Saturday in an emotional service in remembrance of the 129 Navy crew members and civilian technicians who lost their lives in the deadliest submarine disaster in U.S. history.

It's been two decades this month since the longest deadly prison riot in U.S. history broke out in southern Ohio and there's trepidation in the air.

For the first time in the event's 183-year history, a woman led a prayer Saturday at the semiannual gathering of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

After a full year of fruitless job hunting, Natasha Baebler just gave up.

New York is a safer, less fearful place than it was in 1990, when murders hit an all-time high, race relations were raw and the city felt under siege from drug dealers and gangs on "wilding" sprees. But one major piece of unfinished business from back then still hangs over the city and its legal system: the Central Park jogger case.

Authorities have a video from a police interrogation room that shows a murder suspect shooting a detective to death before killing himself with the officer's gun, a person with knowledge of the investigation said Saturday.

The mud of a south-central Pennsylvania cornfield may soon produce answers about the fate of British prisoners of war - and the newly independent Americans who guarded them - during the waning years of the American Revolution.

In the first episode of the first season of "Mad Men," Don Draper's next-in-line affair, Rachel Menken, hears his brutal philosophy: Love is nothing more than an ad man's myth, and everyone is born alone and dies alone.

Troy James Knapp was dodging authorities, again.

A New York state assemblyman is vowing to fight charges that he accepted $20,000 in bribes.

New Orleans police say a man wearing a hood that covered his face used a cigarette lighter to set a large fire inside a fast-food restaurant where six employees were working.

"I don't think we should be worried about the sensitivities of the poor banker and poor criminals whose criminal activities are being exposed. If there are people who are doing nothing wrong and their information is being exposed, then it's collateral. It's a price to be paid." - Nicolas Shaxon, author of a book about offshore tax havens, reacting to a wide-ranging multinational data leak by a coalition of international journalists about hidden money in foreign bank accounts.

Kansas legislators gave final passage to a sweeping anti-abortion measure Friday night, sending Gov. Sam Brownback a bill that declares life begins "at fertilization" while blocking tax breaks for abortion providers and banning abortions performed solely because of the baby's sex.

A white supremacist prison gang member was arrested and another was still being sought for questioning Friday in the death of Colorado's prisons chief as authorities investigated whether the gang had any ties to the killing.

A 3-year-old girl has died after being pinned under an automatic garage door at a home in eastern Maryland.

A Fort Campbell soldier who suffered a traumatic brain injury has received the Silver Star for his actions to help evacuate wounded troops during a mission in Afghanistan in 2010.

Casino mogul and GOP super donor Sheldon Adelson presented a more cantankerous face during his second day of testimony in a breach of contract case in Las Vegas.

Federal charges unsealed Friday accuse four former Tulsa, Okla.-based BizJet International Sales and Support Inc. executives of engaging in a bribery scheme to generate aircraft maintenance business in Latin America.

Performing on pointed toe, scores of 6-year-olds auditioned Friday for coveted slots at the city's School of American Ballet.

Former President Bill Clinton and a panel of successful entrepreneurs had a simple message Friday for college students gathered in St. Louis: Dream big, have a social conscience and commit to your goals.

A measure to put Maryland on the path to developing a medical marijuana program in the next few years has advanced in the state Senate.

A sheriff says a body believed to be that of Nevada's chief insurance examiner was found Saturday in a river in Carson City, and four suspects were arrested in his disappearance.