An FBI agent drowned Thursday in Puerto Rico while trying to save a swimmer, the FBI announced.

Authorities have identified three of the four women found dead this month in two incidents in Detroit, an investigator with the Wayne County Medical Examiner's Office said Friday.

One day after raising the alarm about a possible major eruption, authorities have lowered the alert level in and around a remote Alaska volcano.

Two Maryland doctors face murder charges related to abortions performed on late-term fetuses that were viable, authorities said Friday.

A Pennsylvania hospital is expected to begin screening job applicants for signs of nicotine early next year, claiming it will not hire smokers, a hospital spokeswoman said Friday.

Egyptian authorities have agreed to return all the equipment and documents seized during a series of raids this week of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), the U.S. State Department said Friday.

Armed with valor, vigor and a lone video camera, citizen journalist Basil al Sayid chronicled the Syrian siege of Homs for months before a sniper picked him off and killed him.

In Homs, Syria's third-largest city and a focus of resistance to the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, snipers pose a direct threat to civilians. But the risk of being shot is just one problem they face -- their daily challenge is finding food, fuel and medical care.