The National Park Service is considering reopening Lady Liberty’s crown for the first time since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, according to documents a...

The call girl involved in a scandal that brought down New York’s former governor has dropped a lawsuit claiming “Girls Gone Wild” founder Joe Francis...

Two supervisors at an Iowa meatpacking plant that was raided by federal immigration agents in May were arrested and charged with encouraging people to live in the...

“Compromise, hell!” Jesse Helms screamed in a 1959 editorial that captured what would become the legacy of his Senate career and his place in the...

A pair of out-of-control wildfires roared along California’s central coast Friday, chewing through opposite ends of a parched forest and threatening a total of...

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama celebrated the Fourth of July with his family in Montana.

Despite the weak U.S. dollar, a boom in international travel around the world hasn’t translated into an explosion of foreign tourists to the United States.

A man has sued Eminem, claiming the rapper punched him two years ago while they were in the bathroom of a Detroit strip club.

Oil companies once viewed drilling in the deep waters off Florida as cost prohibitive. Politicians feared even the slightest sign of support would be career suicide.

The U.S. Forest Service says about 400 members of the Rainbow Family threw rocks and sticks at federal officers who were trying to arrest a member of the group.

For more than 10 years, John Lotter has faced death in Nebraska’s electric chair for the grisly 1993 triple murder that spawned the movie “Boys Don’t...

Joey Chestnut has reclaimed the top spot as winner of the annual hot dog eating contest in Coney Island after first tying with archrival Takeru Kobayashi in a 10-minute...

A combative cat named Lewis who frightened the neighbors and got his owner into legal trouble two years ago has done so well under house arrest that the case has now...

As thousands of singers converge on Nashville for an international convention of barbershop harmony music, the old-fashioned music style is facing discord among its...

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama celebrated the Fourth of July with his family in Montana.

A flight instructor and student have been killed in a helicopter crash near a Northern California freeway that knocked power lines into traffic lanes and started a...

In a July 2 story about the estate of Leona Helmsley, The Associated Press, relying on an article in The New York Times, erroneously reported that Helmsley’s...

The Canadian telecommunications company BCE Inc. said Friday it has agreed on terms of a $35 billion sale to a takeover group led by the Ontario Teachers’ Pension...

Former Sen. Jesse Helms, who served 30 years in Congress, died on the Fourth of July, the Jesse Helms research center says. He was 86.

Former Sen. Jesse Helms has died at age 86, Jesse Helms research center says.