A state trooper — soaked below the belt courtesy of a direct Bieber balloon hit — was ready to slap the cuffs on the teen prior to his sold-out performance at the Maryland State Fair on Sunday, but that Bieber's bodyguard managed to talk him out of it.

Fire crews held a wildfire outside of Boulder at bay Friday, allowing some 2,000 evacuees to return home with a warning to be prepared to flee again.

Minutes after a woman was suspended from her job at a Kraft Foods plant and escorted out, she returned with a handgun and opened fire, killing two people and critically injuring a third before being taken into custody, police said.

Most Americans still don't eat vegetables often enough, and fruit consumption is actually dropping a little, according to a new government report released Thursday.

In a White House news conference focused largely on the sour economy and upcoming election, President Barack Obama also spoke passionately about the mosque and Quran controversies that are threatening to politicize this year's commemoration of the 9/11 terror attacks.

LIVE VIDEO: NBC News coverage of President Obama's news conference on the economy and other topics. (NBC News)

Fans of the best-selling novel "Waiting to Exhale" may have been holding their breath for a sequel all these years, but author Terry McMillan never thought she would revisit her most famous characters.

Take your seat, buckle up, and stow your preconceived notions about the brash, brazen Michael O’Leary, whose low-cost carrier, Ryanair, has taken flak as “the Wal-Mart of the skies.”

The Mexican police officers who arrested infamous drug suspect Edgar Valdez Villarreal, alias "La Barbie," did not initially know who they had caught, according to a booking report obtained Thursday.

A judge has denied the request of Huguette Clark's relatives to appoint a guardian for the 104-year-old heiress, saying the claim relies on hearsay. Msnbc.com's Bill Dedman reports.

A woman just suspended from her job and escorted from a Kraft Foods plant in northeast Philadelphia returned with a handgun and opened fire Thursday, killing two people and critically injuring a third, police said.

Protests by thousands of angry Afghans over plans by an obscure U.S. church to burn copies of the Quran grew on Friday, with demonstrations spreading to the capital and at least five provinces, officials said.

Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: Space Adventures says it has reached "a unique agreement" with the Boeing Co. on future space transportation services.

Aubrey Huff and Buster Posey each hit a two-run homer and Pat Burrell and Juan Uribe also went yard as the San Francisco Giants beat San Diego 7-3 Thursday night to pull within one game of the NL West-leading Padres.

Allen Dale June, one of the 29 original Navajo Code Talkers who confounded the Japanese during World War II by transmitting messages in their native language, has died. He was 91.