A South Carolina museum has voted against erecting a monument to the state's secession from the Union almost 150 years ago.

Volunteers in North Dakota were in flood-fighting mode again Tuesday filling sandbags while contractors constructed clay levees along the fast-rising Red River to help protect nearby homes from the murky waters.

It's been a much better year for the endangered whooping crane than biologists had hoped.

Authorities say five people were wounded in a shooting at an apartment complex in Southern California.

Irascible Republican U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning has been a pariah among his congressional colleagues. Back in the conservative swath of northern Kentucky he calls home, though, he's being heralded as a hero.