The FBI says a Boston City Council member has been arrested.

When you gotta go, you gotta go. But for decades, when you had to go in the Roxbury Free Library, you really had to go _ somewhere else, that is.

Gov. Sarah Palin has granted the traditional Thanksgiving pardon to a turkey, but the video that shocks some viewers captured what was happening in the background of...

Ashlee Simpson-Wentz and Pete Wentz are the proud parents of a baby boy, and they’re celebrating with some Bronx cheer.

Foodmaker H.J. Heinz Co. said Friday strong sales of products such as Ore-Ida frozen potatoes and frozen meals boosted fiscal second-quarter profit by 22 percent as...

Sometimes it pays to have your heart broken.

Heinz says strong sales of products such as Ore-Ida frozen potatoes and frozen meals drove up fiscal second-quarter 22 percent as cash-strapped consumers cook more...

The White House says President Bush has called stricken Attorney General Michael Mukasey to see how he was feeling after his collapse during a speech Thursday night.

The Bank of New York Mellon Corp. said Thursday it will cut its worldwide work force by 4 percent, or about 1,800 jobs, blaming the weak global economy.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is shedding about 10 percent of its investment bank staff in an effort to better weather the global economic slowdown.

Wall Street looked poised to get a break from the steep sell-off of the past two days following a report that Citigroup Inc. might put itself up for sale.

Omigod! You’re kidding! Not this early! For heaven’s sake, Thanksgiving isn’t even here yet! But here we go! Rudolph, the red-nosed...

A recount watchdog for Norm Coleman flagged a ballot because the voter put a check next to Al Franken’s name instead of blacking in the oval. A Franken monitor...

With the United States reevaluating strategy in Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Robert Gates is telling allies that additional U.S. forces planned for the war must be...

Former U.S. Sen. Fred Thompson is going back to the small screen after his foray into Republican presidential politics over the last year.

Four Camp Pendleton-based Marines, including one known as “Psycho,” have pleaded not guilty in the execution-style slayings of a fellow Marine and his...

Lawmakers are poised to close a loophole that led to troubled teens being abandoned at Nebraska hospitals, but they aren’t stopping there. Instead, they’re...

President George W. Bush, struggling to get ahead of a global financial crisis, hopes to win more converts for an action plan designed to demonstrate that governments...

Gov. Charlie Crist’s plan for Florida’s public universities veers away from his previous opposition to raising tuition, allowing for increases of up to 15...

R.J. Richard says he doesn’t normally put his cell phone in his chest pocket. But he says it saved his life the one time he did.