Zeinab Chami planned to save money from her part-time job and get a little more from her family. But the 24-year-old graduate student ultimately couldn’t round up...

With the economy sinking faster, employers are giving more Americans dreaded pink slips right before the holidays.

The conductor aboard the Metrolink train that collided with a freight in September says the warning light along the track was green before the crash that killed 25...

Conservation groups filed formal protests Thursday against what they call a “fire sale” of oil-and-gas drilling leases in Utah being conducted by the U.S....

A Minnesota man has pleaded guilty to answering an online advertisement for baby-sitting work and then using the client’s child to make a pornographic video.

Jennifer Hudson says she’s honored to be a Grammy nominee.

Authorities say a husband-and-wife burglary team robbed about 60 homes in rural eastern Missouri and deputies discovered 100 guns at the home of the man accused of...

President-elect Barack Obama thanked his Illinois finance committee on Thursday night for helping him win the election, telling them it was not the end of their work...

Barack Obama’s presidential campaign raised $104 million in the weeks around Election Day, a grand finale to a successful bid that shattered fundraising records.

A once-high-flying Silicon Valley financier and former co-owner of the NHL’s Nashville Predators was charged Thursday with fraud for allegedly bilking investors...

Federal prosecutors say philanthropist Alberto Vilar might flee because he could face the rest of his life in prison.

Barack Obama’s presidential campaign reports raising $104 million in October and November. It marks a grand finale to a successful bid that shattered fundraising...

The leader of a Wisconsin Salvation Army will lose his job if he goes ahead with plans to marry outside the organization.

Payments from the Wall Street bailout fund and slumping tax revenues will ensure a record federal budget deficit, based on congressional estimates released on...

Some of the five men accused of planning to kill soldiers on New Jersey’s Fort Dix told an FBI informant that they lacked the bravery to mount an attack, the...

For the final time as president, George W. Bush led the countdown Thursday night to the glowing unveiling of the nearly 42-foot Christmas tree that overlooks the White...

A Texas Supreme Court justice was fined $29,000 on Thursday after the state ethics commission found that a law firm provided what amounted to an illegal campaign...

The teenage son of former California Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez acted in self-defense in a confrontation that left a college student dead of a stab wound, his lawyer...

Prosecutors dropped all charges Thursday against a woman accused of burning her son in an oven, saying that continuing with the case would harm the boy.

A 26-year-old man faces criminal charges after being accused of using a pickax to attack a speed enforcement camera recently installed along a Phoenix-area freeway.