Police in Indiana say a college freshman was found dead over the weekend in his fraternity house and suspect that alcohol was involved.

The jammed credit markets barely budged Monday as European governments scrambled to prop up their failing banks and investors waited for details on how, exactly, the...

Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. said Monday it will receive a $2.5 billion investment from Allianz SE.

The Supreme Court has rejected for the third time an appeal by anti-abortion activists to undo a multimillion-dollar verdict for their use of “wanted”...

An anti-abortion group has won its long legal fight to force Arizona to issue “choose life” license plates, after the Supreme Court declined to take the...

The Supreme Court is refusing to disturb a $74 million judgment against Dish Network Corp. for violating a patent held by TiVo involving digital video recorders.

Even governors get called for jury duty.

An official says the administration has decided to pick a key Treasury Department official to be the interim head of its $700 billion rescue effort for financial...

Wall Street is down sharply in early trading, with the Dow Jones industrials down more than 200 points amid steep declines in global markets around the world. Investors...

Stock prices are sharply down in early trading, following the lead of other markets around the globe. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 218 points in...

A federal judge says the corruption trial of Sen. Ted Stevens will go forward despite another request to throw out the case.

A Goldman Sachs analyst downgraded Alabama-based construction materials supplier Vulcan Materials Co. on concerns a recent share price rally was overdone and company...

Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is criticizing Barack Obama’s ties to his incendiary former pastor and a 1960s-era radical.

Assuming your company’s name isn’t a verb synonymous with looking things up online, how do you get Web surfers to not just try your search engine, but also...

Authorities say patrons at a central Florida carnival caught a toddler whose mother was forced to drop her when a ride stranded them 30 feet in the air.

So you think junior is a little too lead-footed when he drives the family car? Starting next year, Ford Motor Co. will give you the power to do something about it.

Three days after providing a $700 billion bailout for Wall Street, Congress is holding its first hearing into what caused the nation’s financial markets to...

Facing a lawsuit over deceptive mortgage practices, Bank of America Corp. is agreeing to pay more than $8 billion to modify hundreds of thousands of loans to keep...

An injected Johnson & Johnson biologic drug used to treat several immune diseases controlled Crohn’s disease, a difficult-to-treat bowel disorder, better...

Conservationists have taken the first detailed look at the world’s mammals in more than a decade, and the news isn’t good.