Some of the greatest fortunes and empires in history were created by people who started with nothing.

Stocks turned mixed Friday after better than expected economic data lifted some sectors but didn’t alleviate Wall Street’s concerns about the financial...

Hank Williams Jr., who has sung the opening theme for “Monday Night Football” since 1989, will continue the tradition this season.

An official at a Christian radio station in central Pennsylvania says police shot and killed a man who had threatened the station.

Two Michigan sisters surprised hospital staff and themselves by giving birth to daughters on the same day. The Hillsdale Daily News reported that Sarah Sweeter made the...

A Milwaukee man was accused of shooting his lawn mower because it wouldn’t start. Keith Walendowski, 56, was charged with felony possession of a short-barreled...

Martie Maguire of the Dixie Chicks and her husband, Gareth, have welcomed another addition to their all-girl brood: daughter Harper Rosie Maguire.

Republican presidential candidate John McCain, ridiculing Barack Obama for “the audacity of hopelessness” in his policies on Iraq, said Friday that the...

New Castle Police say a woman chased down a burglar she caught carrying her property out of her house, and got her stuff back. It happened Tuesday morning in a home on...

Balancing safety concerns against the wishes of families of highway fatality victims, West Virginia’s Division of Highways wants to offer the option of...

Ed McMahon has a job.

All city-specific TV channels here were banned by the district administration Friday for presenting “wrong facts” in their news programmes.

Singer Connie Francis is being treated at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New York where she was hospitalized after falling ill earlier this week.

Chrysler LLC has told dealers that the automaker’s financial arm plans to get out of the auto leasing business before the end of the year.

Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Friday on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Stock Market:

AOL is shutting three data-storage services, including one of the Internet’s earliest photo-sharing sites, as it seeks to cut costs and focus resources on its...

President Bush spent a second day this week traveling to raise money for Republicans, all out of public view.

A convicted spammer fatally shot his wife and young daughter in an apparent murder-suicide Thursday while being sought after escaping prison last weekend, authorities...

Just blocks from the University of Washington, a line of people shuffle toward a food pantry, awaiting handouts such as milk and bread.

A woman prosecutors say helped make a graphic videotape of her two visiting grandchildren has pleaded guilty in a Texas child pornography case.