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Details are still coming in about the incident. The Marines were on a nighttime training mission.

The buzz is building about the news that there soon may be "Google glasses" that can put information right in front of your eyes. But is that necessarily a good thing?

It's been an unusually late and mild flu season this year, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Many people have gotten their flu shots, which seems to be helping. But there's still time for the flu to break out.

Scientists have discovered a cockroach in South Africa that leaps to get around. It can jump about 20 inches — 50 times its body length. That's a Superroach.

Gulnaz, the young Afghan woman whose story has spread around the world because she was imprisoned after being raped by a relative, has been released from prison.

More than 1 billion coins are sitting unwanted in government vaults. Ending the program will save an estimated $50 million a year.

The two Voyager spacecraft are still running, 35 years after their launch. And as you might expect, our two ambassadors to the galaxy are sporting the finest technology of 1977, the year they were launched.

The city of Inkster, Mich., has just laid off 20 percent of its police force in an effort to make ends meet. The cutbacks illustrate a larger paradox currently at work in the labor market: While the private sector is slowly adding jobs, the public sector continues to shed them.

When a trio of carolers were asked to leave a post office in Maryland, the whole "war on Christmas" debate had another flashpoint. But USPS isn't exactly anti-Christmas, as its annual holiday stamps show.

As U.S. troops depart Iraq, many observers assume the country will fall into lockstep with its powerful Shiite neighbor to the east, Iran. But, at least in the short term, other countries in the region are expected to keep Iran in check, and Turkey is already playing a significant economic role.