A babysitter faces child endangerment charges after authorities find one of two toddlers he was baby-sitting drunk. Deputies investigating a family court case in Suffolk County say they looked through a window and saw Juan Reyes passed out with two children wandering the house.

Prosecutors say a 15-year-old boy allegedly murdered his father and then set their house on fire because he was afraid of how his father might react when he found out he had failed some classes. Ryan Watts is charged as an adult in the death of his 50-year-old father, John Bruner.

About one in 20 U. S. adults have such poor English skills that they can't read a newspaper, understand the directions on a bottle of pills or, in many cases, carry on a basic conversation. The findings come from a new federal survey that offers the first peek in more than a decade at the USA's "non-literate" adult population.

A school bus driver faces being fired after allegedly taping the mouth of a 5-year-old boy so he would stop talking. School officials are investigating after the kindergartner told his parents the driver taped his mouth shut with duct tape.

The Kingdom Life Christian Church wants to evict its Adult Video store tenant. The church bought the building in 2003 for $245,000 in an effort to force Video Pleasures to close. But owner Michael Friend remained in the building by exercising a three-year lease agreement he had with the previous owners.