One person was hospitalized with burns and 19 others were taken to hospitals for evaluation Monday after a chemical mixture used to clean jewelry exploded at a business...

Stocks mostly advanced Monday as investors rushed to lay bets on a recovery in the financial and housing sectors following the weekend announcement that the U.S....

Coal producer Walter Industries Inc. said Monday that its subsidiary United Land Corporation has acquired Alabama-based Taft Coal Sales & Associates for $20.2...

A company run by an ex-Bush administration official and hired by the government to provide medical care to Sept. 11 recovery workers has been slow to take up the job,...

The Associated Press has named nine members of its global staff, including two involved in the high-profile tracking of delegates in the U.S. presidential race, as...

The judge in O.J. Simpson’s Las Vegas robbery-kidnap trial has rejected a bid by Simpson’s lawyers to ask prospective jurors if they consider him a...

A British jury has found three men guilty of conspiracy to murder thousands by plotting to down at least seven trans-Atlantic airliners bound for the United States.

Oil prices slipped Monday as Hurricane Ike weakened over Cuba and the U.S. dollar strengthened.

Oil prices slipped Monday as Hurricane Ike weakened over Cuba and the U.S. dollar strengthened.

Three bodies and one injured person were found after a house fire Monday morning and detectives said at least two of the four victims had been shot.

Federal regulators have agreed to formally review the government’s application for a license to build a radioactive waste dump in Nevada.

Procter & Gamble Co. has agreed to sell the rights and trademarks to its Noxzema skin care brand to suburban Chicago-based hair care products maker Alberto-Culver...

The White House says that the giant federal takeover of troubled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could have been prevented if Congress had acted on its...

Firefighters in Baltimore are trying to contain a growing blaze at a shopping center.

Detroit’s mayor has a deadline for moving out of the city’s official mayoral residence now that he has pleaded guilty and is resigning.

A solitary sheep is living life in the fast lane.

Officials in New Jersey say three bodies were found after a house fire in Irvington and at least of the three had been shot.

Polishing off his strawberry-banana yogurt, Jacob Moore races to his keyboard with a whoop, picks his way through “Pop Goes the Weasel” and gives his mom a...

After failing to grab much consumer attention for its own smokeless tobacco products, Altria Group said Monday it would buy the maker of Skoal and Copenhagen for about...

Officials in Attleboro, Mass., say one person has been hospitalized after a cyanide leak at a business that makes gold and silver alloys.