Wall Street has ended a wild session with its best showing of the week after investors went in search of bargains among stocks devastated by seven days of massive...

Wall Street has ended a wild session with its best showing of the week after investors went in search of bargains among stocks devastated by seven days of massive...

Energy stocks plunged Friday as crude and natural gas prices dropped to levels not seen in more than a year.

The mother of a missing 3-year-old Florida girl will have access to her car and forensic tests completed by authorities trying to figure out what happened to the child,...

Amtrak carried a record 28.7 million people last year, with each of its routes seeing gains, the national passenger railroad said Friday.

A judge has ordered the state of Alaska to preserve any government-related e-mails that Gov. Sarah Palin sent from private accounts.

A suburban Kansas City man who videotaped the death of a woman he suffocated during sex has been sentenced to death.

One in four teen girls have rolled up their sleeves for the relatively new vaccine against cervical cancer, federal health officials said Thursday.The figures represent...

Agriculture futures slid Friday on the Chicago Board of Trade.

A former San Francisco supervisor has pleaded guilty to three felonies related to an attempted shakedown of business owners.

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell on Friday praised Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens’ sense of honor at his trial on corruption charges, calling his reputation for...

A stainless steel net may soon hang underneath the Golden Gate Bridge to stop people from attempting suicide by jumping off.

Wall Street seesawed Friday, with the Dow Jones industrials spinning from an early loss of nearly 700 points to a 100-point late-session advance while investors looked...

An elderly man fatally shot his ailing wife in her hospital bed Friday and was in critical condition after turning the gun on himself, an official said.

The state of Alabama has settled Medicaid drug pricing lawsuits it filed against drugmaker Bristol-Myers Squibb and four other companies.

NASA has decided to press ahead with plans to launch a big new rover to Mars next year.

A West Florida woman has been arrested after pouring scalding hot water on her husband’s groin, says authorities.Manatee County Sheriff’s Office deputies...

An author and minister who spent hours interviewing Coretta Scott King for her biography said Friday that she may abandon the project because of the drawn-out, public...

For a Kansas City man, 2008 has been a great year when it comes to playing the Missouri Lottery. Arthur Watkins, 53, has won slightly more than $400,000 in two...

The tough economy could make it easier to sign up soldiers.