Galveston officials pleaded with state lawmakers Wednesday for help in rescuing their island city from the dire financial straits it finds itself in nearly four months...

Microsoft Corp.’s next version of the Windows operating system is almost ready for prime time.

Two men passed themselves off as foreign currency traders to swindle customers out of $15 million, which they used to pay for a lifestyle that included strip clubs,...

MSNBC political commentator Chris Matthews has told his colleagues he won’t be leaving television to run for a U.S. Senate seat from Pennsylvania.

A national environmental group recommended Wednesday that California overhaul its water-delivery system by building a canal around the Sacramento-San Joaquin River...

A former New York City nightclub bouncer has been sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for kidnapping a young woman as she walked home from class.

A 16-year-old girl accused of drowning an infant boy in a toilet and throwing the body in the trash in Washington state has been charged with murder.

TD Ameritrade Holding Corp.’s new President and CEO Fred Tomczyk received compensation the company valued at $13.5 million in fiscal year 2008, just before taking...

The King of Pop is back _ in town, that is.

As he’s done for the last decade, Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs took home his customary $1 annual salary in 2008, but the economic meltdown and...

Chesapeake Energy Corp. agreed to a five-year contract with Chief Executive Officer Aubrey McClendon that includes a one-time $75 million “incentive award,”...

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Wednesday that he’ll restart stalled budget talks with legislative leaders in hopes of getting a quick deficit-cutting agreement...

An 82-year-old man who slipped and fell in the bathtub of his Salt Lake City home says he was trapped there for five days.

A federal judge has ordered the arrest of an Alabama sheriff who was held in contempt of court for failing to adequately feed jail inmates while profiting from the...

Vice President Dick Cheney said Wednesday it would be a mistake for President-elect Barack Obama to scrap the Bush administration’s terrorist-fighting policies...

Senate Democrats who thought they could push away Roland Burris misjudged the racial fallout, underestimated public reaction and wound up on shaky legal ground.

President-elect Barack Obama’s choice to shape up federal agencies is a longtime senior partner at a leading consulting firm who also tried to modernize the IRS...

The nation’s largest medical lab company says it recently discovered and fixed a problem that led to inaccuracies in a small number of tests for vitamin D...

CBS is giving a juicy post-championship game time slot to its new hit series, “The Mentalist.”

U.S. intelligence officials say the Jan. 20 inauguration is an attractive target for international and domestic terrorist groups, but they know of no specific threat...