Lawmakers proposed Tuesday to create a new government agency that could stop lenders from offering mortgages and other financial products deemed unsafe for consumers.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will consider whether to protect a rabbit-like, alpine creature known as the American pika because of habitat loss.

The Bush administration has failed to provide protections required by law to more than a dozen marine mammals potentially at risk of death or injury due to commercial fishing, congressional investigators said Wednesday.

Proving that no good deed goes unpunished, the state’s high court on Thursday said a would-be Good Samaritan accused of rendering her friend paraplegic by pulling her from a wrecked car “like a rag doll” can be sued.

Seven penguin species have reason to have happy feet: The Bush administration is moving to protect them. But three other types of penguin _ including the stars of recent movies _ got the cold shoulder.

Police say a pizza delivery man fought back with the one weapon he had handy when a gun was pulled on him in a stickup: A large, hot pepperoni pizza.

Force Protection, the military manufacturer that grew rapidly when the nation went to war, on Thursday unveiled a new prototype of a lighter armored vehicle on which the company is staking a key part of its future.

President Bush wants to extend environmental protections to more of the Pacific Ocean.

President Bush on Monday proposed protecting three remote island chains, launching a marine conservation effort that could be one of the largest in history.

President Bush next week will seek formal comment from his Cabinet agencies on a plan that could make three of the world’s most remote and pristine island chains off limits to commercial fishing and mineral exploration.