Mortgage application volume fell last week to its lowest levels in more than six years, the Mortgage Bankers Association said Wednesday.

BJ’s Wholesale Club Inc. says its profit edged up in the second-quarter and is raising its full-year earnings forecast as frugal shoppers look for deals at...

An Italian restaurant in Harlem that once counted Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett as regulars has turned back the clock 75 years.

U.S. stocks appeared headed for a rebound Wednesday after an upbeat profit report from Hewlett-Packard Co. offered investors reassurance about the economy.

It took a jury 13 days to convict and sentence Damien Echols to death for the 1993 slayings of three second-graders.

Crews were waiting for floodwaters to recede so they can begin restoring washed-out trails and footbridges to a remote village near the Grand Canyon hit by flooding,...

A coalition of same-sex marriage opponents and taxpayer groups is trying to persuade voters to approve a state constitutional convention in the hopes of bringing the...

Hawaii voters for the first time must pick a political party when voting in this year’s primary election, a requirement that election officials hope will result...

A man who killed 11 people by causing a commuter rail disaster in Glendale faces sentencing, one month after a jury recommended he serve life in prison without the...

Their spots on the November ballot now secure, Democratic incumbent Chris Gregoire and Republican Dino Rossi enter the homestretch in what likely will be the...

A small plane carrying Secret Service agents assigned to Republican presidential candidate John McCain made a forced landing after taking off from a Phoenix area...

Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe said he won’t recommend a replacement for slain state Democratic Party Chairman Bill Gwatney before delegates gather in Denver next week...

Federal officials accuse five Midwest states of violating a new pollution standard for tiny soot particles that can cause respiratory distress in children and the...

They survived war, but for some Iraq and Afghanistan veterans going to work back home isn’t easy, either.

They survived war, but for some Iraq and Afghanistan veterans going to work back home isn’t easy, either.

The National Park Service has dropped its plan to expand the visitor center at Little Bighorn Battlefield, saying the $1.1 million project would have blemished historic...

Indigenous Mexicans make up nearly a quarter of the farmhands who pick the apples, cherries and other crops in western Washington, a new survey has found.

Barack Obama and John McCain have burnished images as politicians who keep special interests at arms’ length, yet there won’t be much stiff-arming at their...

When Barack Obama announces his choice for vice president, the real payoff may come during the next few months _ one text message at a time.

President Bush is defending his line-in-the-sand approach to the fight against Islamic terrorism, following presidential rivals John McCain and Barack Obama in a speech...