Even though the Penn State board itself will undergo scrutiny, the trustees announced Monday they tapped former FBI Director Louis Freeh to head their independent investigation. NBC’s Peter Alexander reports. (Nightly News)

Obama declares he will veto any attempt to undo automatic spending cuts that would kick in in 2013. Watch his entire statement. (msnbc tv)

Analysis: The supercommittee’s inability to reach an agreement on spending will force both parties to address cuts in areas that have been difficult to touch — the military and Medicare.

Arizona authorities on Monday arrested the mother of a 5-year-old girl last seen more than a month ago, a police sergeant said.

Months after a jury couldn't decide his fate, a Southern California teen has agreed to plead guilty for gunning down a gay classmate three years ago in their junior high classroom.

John C. "Jack" Keeney, the longest serving federal prosecutor in the nation's history, has died at the age of 89, one year after he finally retired from the Justice Department.

A U.S. solider charged with plotting to blow up troops at Fort Hood, the nation’s largest Army post, says he first planned an attack on Fort Campbell, CNN affiliate WSMV reported on Monday.

Prosecutors will retry for murder a teenager who is accused of gunning down a gay classmate execution-style in their Southern California junior high school classroom in 2008, the Ventura County district attorney's office said Wednesday.

Gabriela Vazquez maneuvers through piles of clothes and toys while trying to control her two small children.

Police continued to search Thursday for a missing 10-month-old Missouri girl, as her sobbing mother told reporters, "I can't be without her."