A McDonald’s cashier called 911 after a Vero Beach drive-thru customer allegedly offered to pay for his meal with marijuana. The Indian River County...

Wall Street stormed back from last week’s devastating losses after major governments announced further steps to support the global banking system, including plans...

A person close to the deal says Steven Spielberg’s DreamWorks studio has signed on with Universal Pictures to distribute its films.

A judge has ordered Michigan election officials to stop automatically canceling a voter’s registration if the card is returned as undeliverable.

A 19-year-old Asheville teenager said she legally changed her name to CutoutDissection.com to protest animal dissections in schools.

Republican John McCain pledged to fight for a new direction for the country in an energetic new campaign stump speech Monday that sought to distance him from the...

Weight used to be a health concern for people because many diseases may be developed as a result of overweight. However, a recent large United States study suggested...

Delpha Speak has 13 grandchildren and she didn’t think it was completely implausible that one of her grandsons-in-law would call her to say he was in trouble. The...

Two wildfires driven by strong Santa Ana winds threatened neighborhoods near Los Angeles on Monday, killing one person, destroying several dozen mobile homes and...

Forget about the boob tube. Places to watch TV on the Internet are proliferating, from NBC Universal and News Corp.’s Hulu to Joost _ a site that plans to...

Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin accidentally mistook some of her own fans for protesters Monday.

Catherine Stevens has become the linchpin in the corruption trial of her husband, Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens _ to both the prosecutors and his defense team.

A Brooklyn butcher shop worker called his specialty “hot kielbasa” _ for snorting, not eating. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said the kielbasa was really...

The chief executive of Chrysler LLC said Monday that his company hasn’t reached any new deals with other automakers but has spoken with outside parties interested...

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton offered a Democratic rejoinder to the Republican chant of “drill, baby, drill.” Said the one-time presidential candidate:...

Barack Obama and Joe Biden won the endorsement Monday of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.

Democrat Barack Obama is calling for a 90-day moratorium on foreclosures and a two-year tax break for businesses that create jobs as part of a plan to heal the...

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday that seeing the U.S. in an economic crisis eight years after Democrats left the nation in sound fiscal shape is heartbreaking.

A television station says two people died when its news helicopter crashed in a rural area north of Houston.

A looming federal investigation and possible trial is making it difficult for seven juvenile Florida boot camp guards and a nurse acquitted last year of state charges...