Sellers of insurance on bonds issued by bankrupt Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. are now likely to face demands that they pay out more than 91 cents on the dollar to...

A woman accused of stalking John Cusack has accepted a plea deal that will let her avoid state prison.

Who is running for president? In an upstate New York county, hundreds of voters have been sent absentee ballots in which they could vote for “Barack...

The Bush administration is trying to build consensus among its negotiating partners before removing North Korea from a terrorism blacklist in hopes of salvaging nuclear...

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell called Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens’ word “sterling” at the senator’s corruption trial. Federal prosecutors...

When 72-year-old Gladys Dressner first saw two snakes last in her new apartment last month, she froze. Days later, when an eight-inch snake crawled across her bed, she...

John McCain and Barack Obama outlined steps to counter the faltering economy and plummeting stock market on Friday, fresh evidence of the dominant role of pocketbook...

A Louisiana state senator has submitted his resignation after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering.

Fort Benning officials say a trainee has been punished in the beating of a Jewish soldier, but won’t face military proceedings.

A half sister of Cindy McCain, wife of Republican presidential candidate John McCain, has died of Alzheimer’s disease, the family announced.

President Bush said Friday that the government’s financial rescue plan was aggressive enough and big enough to work, but would take time to fully kick in....

Oil prices plunged in another violent sell-off Friday, briefly tumbling below $78 a barrel as investors grow more pessimistic about the prospects for resolving a...

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell called Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens’ word “sterling” at the senator’s corruption trial.

An advocacy group is suing over an Oklahoma law that prohibits a woman from getting an abortion unless she first has an ultrasound and the doctor describes to her what...

Supreme Court justices regularly confront cases involving companies they own shares in or that employ a family member. The decision is easy _ the justices have a...

Wall Street extended its devastating decline Friday as investors, still seeing no resolution to the credit crisis, sold frantically and propelled the Dow Jones...

Police in North Carolina say a woman hunting rats on her property caused a scare at a neighboring public school.

Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden says Republican candidate John McCain is trying to distract voters from the nation’s financial problems.

As the presidential race revs up, political conversations in NFL locker rooms echo those in workplaces nationwide.

Afraid cash isn’t secure even behind the thick walls of banks, more people are turning to something that’s protected money since the days of Jesse James and...