Nokia Corp., Motorola Inc. and other handset makers rose along with the broader market Friday following Samsung Electronics’ report that its mobile phone sales...

A Cape Cod man accused of beating a man with a baseball bat because he thought he was a Yankees fan was released from jail Friday by a judge who said the media had made...

An audit says the government has endangered the public’s health and safety by failing to clean up abandoned mines on federal land in the West.

Sales of new homes fell in June for the seventh time in the past eight months, but the decline was less than had been expected, raising faint hopes that the...

China’s booming Internet population has surpassed the United States to become the world’s biggest, with 253 million people online despite government...

Sales of new homes fell in June for the seventh time in the past eight months, but the decline was less than had been expected, raising faint hopes that the...

The Coast Guard reopened the Mississippi River to limited ship traffic Friday, but port officials say it will take days to clear up to 200 ships idled by a massive oil...

In a July 24 story rounding up earnings reported by three U.S. newspaper companies and the industry’s general outlook, The Associated Press misspelled the name of...

A once-feared Haitian paramilitary leader has been convicted in a New York mortgage fraud scheme to cheat lenders out of $1.7 million.

A CEO packs his board with cronies, uses corporate dollars toward things like a yacht and allows his company to do business with others he owns.

Detroit Mayor Kwame (KWAH’-mee) Kilpatrick must pay $7,500 and undergo random drug testing after a judge changed terms of his bond.

President Bush pulled the rug out from under Republicans this week when he abruptly dropped his opposition to a massive housing rescue.

Railroad giant CSX said it has asked two nominees of activist hedge fund shareholders TCI and 3G Capital to join its board, but said it will await a vote review and...

A detective has testified that Detroit Mayor Kwame (KWAH’-mee) Kilpatrick swore at him and threw him off a porch as he tried to deliver a subpoena to a...

Three white teens were charged Friday in what officials said was an epithet-filled fatal beating of an illegal Mexican immigrant in a small northeast Pennsylvania coal...

Malaysia’s leader urged the United States on Friday to respect his country’s sovereignty by not meddling in its investigation into a sodomy accusation...

Senate Democrats failed Friday to advance a measure to rein in oil market speculators, one of a series of efforts to tell voters they are serious about addressing...

Former Atlantic City mayor Robert Levy was given probation and a $5,000 fine for lying about his Vietnam War service to pad his benefits check.

Railroad CSX says it has asked two nominees of activist hedge fund shareholders TCI and 3G Capital to join its board, but a vote on two others remains too close to...

President Bush has signed an executive order expanding sanctions against individual Zimbabweans and organizations associated with the regime of Robert Mugabe, which the...