Facing a free-speech uproar, the University of Texas backed down Thursday from punishing two students who refused to remove political signs from their dormitory...

The University of Texas has barred two students from registering for spring classes after they refused to take down political signs from their dormitory window.

Signs are emerging that history is repeating itself in the Big Easy, still healing from Katrina: People have forgotten a lesson from four decades ago and believe once again that the federal government is constructing a levee system they can prosper...

Signs of anemic growth for the world’s largest economies and a strengthening dollar drove oil prices below $114 a barrel Friday.

While out-of-town for business, it always helps to ask the locals for directions. Especially if that business involves putting up street signs.Crews from the North Carolina firm Signage Industries installed two signs near downtown Columbia,...

Signs are emerging that Iraq has reached a turning point. Violence is down, armed extremists are in disarray, government confidence is rising and sectarian communities are gearing up for a battle at the polls rather than slaughter in the...

First, the water level in a pond inexplicably plunged. Then, thousands of toads appeared on streets in a nearby province. Finally, just hours before China’s worst earthquake in three decades, animals at a local zoo began acting strangely.As...

Oak Lawn has removed comical remarks in octagonal shapes it placed under stop signs in an effort to get motorists to obey the law.Mayor Dave Heilmann says the Illinois Department of Transporation determined the signs violated the federal Manual...

U.S. soldiers are committing suicide at record levels, young officers are abandoning their military careers, and the heavy use of forces in Iraq has made it harder for the military to fight conflicts that could arise elsewhere.Unprecedented strains...

Under a judge’s order, a man who has admitted molesting a boy has posted signs around his house and a decal on his car proclaiming that he is a sex offender.The hand-painted signs reading “A Sex Offender Lives Here” are posted on...