Tough training and an airbag-like flotation system helped save the 18 people caught aboard the Super Puma helicopter that crashed into the North Sea, a union official and safety experts said Thursday.

It was a tough sell for Timothy Geithner, and he looked it.

Tough economic news and the arrival of the Obama administration have helped bring more viewers to the broadcast evening news shows, a TV staple that’s been written off many times in the past.

Tough economic news and the new Obama administration are driving TV viewers to the evening news, a broadcast staple that’s been written off in the past.

Rod Blagojevich entered the Illinois governor’s office with the state budget falling apart and public confidence shaken by a spectacular scandal. Six years later, Blagojevich is gone but if anything his tenure dug the hole deeper.

A 19-year-old suspect in northeast Nevada may not be a very good prowler but there’s no denying he’s one tough cookie. Elko County sheriff’s deputies said the man had to be zapped with a Taser twice and bitten by a police dog three times before he stopped

The inauguration of Barack Obama is a reminder of how the story that dominated airwaves during 2008 is over, leaving television news organizations to contemplate life without it in the midst of a brutal economy.

America’s demand for crude oil fell to its lowest level since 2003 last year, as record high prices to start the year and an ailing economy at the end of 2008 combined to sharply curtail consumption, new statistics show.

Tough economic conditions could slow expansion at Google Inc.’s server farm in the North Carolina foothills, the company said in declining a sliver of a $260 million state incentive package.

Gianni Alemanno is keeping his law-and-order promises, sweeping prostitutes off streets, arming traffic cops and pushing for immigrants who commit crimes to be deported.