Federal regulators say computer data from a Toyota Prius that crashed in New York show that at the time of the accident the throttle was open and the driver was not hitting the brakes.

President Barack Obama has signed into law a package of tax breaks and spending designed to give the nation a jobs boost.

Authorities say the brutal beating of a 15-year-old girl at a Florida middle school was triggered by a text message dispute between the victim and a teenage boy.

The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office in Arizona has launched a two-day, countywide crime and immigration sweep that authorities say will focus on drop houses, drug violators and human smuggling vehicles.

A sheriff's spokesman says there's a "strong probability" that the child's body found washed up on an island in Puget Sound is that of an eight-year-old Washington state boy who went missing with his mother last weekend.