WASILLA, Alaska - At 3 a.m. Thursday, Anne Kilkenny unglued herself from her computer and went to bed after spending hours answering an endless...

WASHINGTON - Sen. Edward Kennedy, who has brain cancer, will not be on Capitol Hill this week when Congress returns from its summer break. He...

WASHINGTON - Auto industry allies hope to secure up to $50 billion in government loans this month that would pay to modernize plants and...

WASHINGTON - Democrat Joe Biden said he has debated "an awful lot of tough, smart women" throughout his career and that next month’s vice...

WASHINGTON - Democrat presidential nominee Barack Obama ridiculed Republican rival John McCain and his running mate for claiming they would...

JERICHO, Vt. - Ralph McClintock expected only a three-week mission when he boarded the USS Pueblo in January 1968. Instead, he and his shipmates...

RALEIGH, North Carolina - Tropical Storm Hanna accelerated toward the northeastern New England states on Saturday after the storm’s whipping...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida - NASA has delayed next month’s space shuttle launch to the Hubble Space Telescope by two days. Tropical Storms...

NEW YORK - Robert Giroux, a distinguished giant of 20th century publishing who guided and supported dozens of great writers from T.S. Eliot...

WASHINGTON - The source of trouble in the mortgage market has shifted from subprime loans made to borrowers with bad credit to homeowners who...

CHICAGO - Since being diagnosed with brain cancer, Robert Novak has lost partial vision and undergone surgery to remove a tumor, the conservative...

CHICAGO - Ford Motor Co. says it’s cutting 600 part-time jobs at its Chicago assembly plant when it drops one of its two shifts by early...

CHICAGO — Rev. Jesse Jackson was being treated Thursday in Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago after falling ill. Jackson told...

DETROIT - Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick pleaded guilty to felony charges today in a sex scandal, forcing him out of office after months of defiantly...

MADISON, Wis. - Wisconsin election officials say independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader has enough signatures to get on the November...

TRENTON, N.J. - New Jersey sex offenders — who already must tell state authorities where they live and work — would be required to...

BETHLEHEM, N.H. - A 65-year-old Massachusetts man suffered an apparent heart attack and died while hiking a remote mountain in Bethlehem,...

NORTH BERGEN, N.J. - Authorities in New Jersey say a bomb scare involving a package on a freight train appears to have been a hoax. Police...

PHILADELPHIA - Authorities in Philadelphia say an allegedly drunken teen motorist has smashed into a police car during a pursuit and one of the...

Southern New England is bracing for drenching rain and gusts near 50 mph as Tropical Storm Hanna runs up the Eastern Seaboard. Hanna came...

KEY WEST, Fla. - Powerful Hurricane Ike rolled down an uncertain path Sunday that may lead to the U.S. Gulf Coast late this week, forcing emergency...

NASSAU, Bahamas - Ike roared across low-lying islands Sunday as a Category 4 hurricane, destroying homes, sweeping away boats and bringing more...

WASHINGTON - Police said today they had detained a man after a rifle and an improvised explosive device were discovered in his vehicle near...

HOLDEN BEACH, N.C. - Beach vacationers in the Carolinas packed up and headed inland today as Tropical Storm Hanna cruised steadily toward the...

ORLANDO, Fla. — Casey Anthony, mother of missing toddler Caylee Marie Anthony, will be released from jail for a second time Friday after...

HOUSTON - When Darnell Hartsfield saw the inside of a Texas prison cell for the first time in 1984, it was for an aggravated robbery he committed...

HOUSTON - A federal judge, promising a "horde of witnesses" in his defense, pleaded not guilty today to charges he fondled a former case manager...

PHOENIX - Rep. Russell Pearce won the Republican nomination for an open Senate seat in a race that saw foes pour money and mud into their efforts...

WASILLA, Alaska - At 3 a.m. Thursday, Anne Kilkenny unglued herself from her computer and went to bed after spending hours answering an endless...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - It’s the season for Alaskans to be rewarded just for living here and this year’s take is extra sweet: $3,269,...

PANGUITCH, Utah - One Utah community is cheering a special bear — but don’t call him Smokey. Investigators say a large black...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco police are investigating the slaying of a Hells Angels leader in the city. Mark "Papa" Guardado, 45, the president...

LOS ANGELES - An air conditioning repairman pleaded not guilty Thursday to the stabbing deaths of two women, including a former girlfriend of...

PANGUITCH, Utah - Investigators say a large black bear raided a clandestine marijuana growing operation so often that it chased the grower...

TOKYO - Police were trying to determine Tuesday whether they were the victim of a hoax after the body they thought they found at a seaside...