A Salt Lake City man who was serving as a referee in a recreational soccer game in Taylorsville is in critical condition after being punched by a teenager.

A New York City police officer shot her boyfriend, turned the gun on her 1-year-old son and then shot herself in an apparent double murder-suicide at her home Monday morning, police said.

The North American Soccer League is focused on expanding to California as early as 2015. San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego were potential cities for future NASL franchises, commissioner Bill Peterson said Tuesday.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Two foreigner tourists were held for hours and brutalized and one, a woman, was sexually assaulted aboard a public transport van they boarded in Rio de Janeiro's showcase Copacabana beach neighborhood, police said in a...

David Esquer walks a few steps outside his campus office right into the construction zone that is Evans Diamond. There on Thursday, the lights will come on for California's first night game in the program's 121-year history. The coach proudly points...

It's been 10 years from the start of the Iraq War, and Associated Press photos show the changes, along with what has stayed the same in the war-torn country.

Pope Francis laid out the priorities of his pontificate during his installation Mass on Tuesday, urging the princes, presidents, sheiks and thousands of ordinary people attending to protect the environment, the weakest and the poorest and to let...

Lauren Silberman's NFL tryout has lasted all of two kicks, neither of which traveled 20 yards. Silberman is the first woman to compete at an NFL regional scouting combine. She is 28 years old and played club soccer at Wisconsin.

FIFA has given worldwide bans to 58 soccer players and officials found guilty in Chinese match-fixing cases.

A small army of workers set to work Saturday to replace the estimated 200,000 square meters (50 acres) of windows shattered by the shock wave from a meteor that exploded over Russia's Chelyabinsk region.

At 5:45 a.m. on Nov. 4, 2011, when early risers would have been sipping espressos and buttering toast, a man dressed in black disembarked at Milan's Malpensa Airport after a 13-hour trip from Asia aboard a Singapore Airlines flight.