Hurricane Dolly was downgraded to a Category 1 storm after slamming into the South Texas coast Wednesday with punishing rain and winds of 100 mph that knocked out power to thousands.

Sixty years after President Truman desegregated the military, senior black officers are still rare, particularly among the highest ranks.

Growing number of casualties and the resurgence of the Taliban and its anti-American allies has prompted vows by President Bush and his aspiring successors to send more U.S. troops to the country.

The Coast Guard closed 29 miles of the Mississippi River at New Orleans after a 600-foot tanker and a barge loaded with fuel oil collided, breaking the barge in half.

AIDS rates in the nation's Latino community are increasing and, with little notice, have reached what experts are calling a simmering public health crisis.

Two decades ago, Dr. Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa used his hands to pick vegetables for $22 a day; now he's one of the world's best brain surgeons. TODAY’s Bob Dotson reports on how a laborer went from a California field to a lab at Johns Hopkins Medical Center.

A woman walking her two dogs in southern California was attacked and severely injured by a bear.

A woman accused of slicing open a pregnant woman’s belly and taking her baby was obsessed with getting an infant and even had hallucinations of hearing babies cry.

Rising prices at the gas pump appear to be having at least one positive effect: Traffic deaths around the country are plummeting, just as they did during the Arab oil embargo three decades ago.

The mother of a missing 2-year-old is a person of interest in a case that is beginning to look like a homicide, prosecutors said Tuesday.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency is requesting immunity from lawsuits filed on behalf of Gulf Coast hurricane victims.

A grand jury in Texas indicted polygamist leader Warren Jeffs and five other members of the sect raided in April.

Experts estimate that only 2 percent to 10 percent of the 18,000 police departments nationwide actively work to prevent suicides within their ranks.