Ask a calamity-struck person how it feels to be under the rubble or get trapped in a spot where rescuers can’t see. It takes hours before the rescue team can muster...

With skyscrapers becoming a norm in our urban livelihood, safety within those high-rise buildings remains a question. We’ve seen people jump out of the World Trade...

The Treasury Department says more than 100 applications have been received from firms seeking to manage the government program to help purchase toxic securities from...

Not long ago the International Monetary Fund seemed headed for relic status. Now it’s once more flying high, rolling out ambitious plans to blanket an...

Officials said a wild hog attacked a woman in the back yard of her home. St. Petersburg Fire & Rescue reported that a 26-year-old woman was told there was a pig in...

The U.S. Coast Guard says it has rescued three men from a drifting pleasure boat that had lost power in choppy waters southwest of St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin...

A West Virginia bank has become the first to completely cut its ties to the federal government’s $700 billion financial rescue program.

This will be no powder-puff scuffle between the ladies of “Rescue Me.”

Rescuers who hoped to capture a young harbor porpoise that won’t leave a southern New Jersey lagoon have called off their efforts.

Rescuers at southern New Jersey lagoon have called off efforts to capture a young harbor porpoise after determining the mammal’s expertise at evading their nets...

The government said Tuesday it had provided $1.46 billion to 19 banks in the latest payments from its $700 billion financial rescue fund.

Give the White House some time to develop a plan to buy banks’ toxic assets.

The Treasury Department says it has provided $284.7 million to 22 banks in the latest payments from the government’s $700 billion financial rescue fund.

A windfall of national exposure has given a financial boost to a volunteer organization that helps needy Upper Midwest farmers sow and harvest their crops. But the...

A 53-year-old Australian cyclist survived four nights in the howling cold of the Alaskan wilderness after getting lost and falling into a stream.

There was a rescue involving a St. Bernard in Billings, Mont., but this time it was the humans who saved the day.

An Alpine rescue in the Swiss Alps played out over the blogging Web site Twitter ended in tragedy after a snowboarder was found dead, British media and Swiss...

A mountain rescue in the Swiss Alps that played out over the blogging Web site Twitter has ended with a missing British snowboarder found dead.

The Treasury Department has provided $394.9 million to 28 banks in new payments from the government’s $700 billion financial rescue fund.

A new definition of desperate times: Even as the government threw a stunning new $30 billion lifeline to American International Group on Monday, the beleaguered...