Like the NFL teams beginning their new seasons, Usher is hoping to go all the way to the Super Bowl.

Treasury prices mostly fell Friday ahead of the long holiday weekend as traders booked profits in an abbreviated session.

A man was sentenced to 18 months in prison after admitting he forced his 7-year-old daughter to kill the family cat by holding a knife in her hand and making her stab...

Homicide investigators used ground-penetrating radar Friday to determine if the bones of a long-vanished couple were buried in the backyard.

Federal authorities say two airliners were a minute away from colliding when they turned away from each other over the Caribbean this week.

Barack Obama’s spokesman fired off a fast criticism of Republican John McCain’s new running mate on Friday, but the Democratic candidate himself quickly...

Machinists union leadership has called for a strike after deciding Boeing’s final contract offer isn’t good enough.

Republican presidential candidate John McCain’s surprise choice of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate has given a brief, upbeat biography of her the kind...

John Edwards will emerge from seclusion and speak next month at Hofstra University in New York, taking the stage exactly one month after admitting to an extramarital...

A highly respected retired NYPD detective with inoperable liver cancer was charged with bank robbery Friday after authorities identified him as the so-called Bling...

A defense attorney says his client will plead guilty to conspiracy in a bizarre 2003 bank robbery that led to the collar-bomb death of a Pennsylvania pizza delivery...

Let’s face it: everything is a lot more horrifying than you thought when you were a kid. Pick even the most childlike, innocent thing you can think of, and the...

Gustav became a hurricane again on Friday as it plowed toward Cayman Islands resorts, the start of a buildup that could take it to the U.S. Gulf Coast as a fearsome...

The machinists union has rejected Boeing’s final contract proposal and has called for a strike.

Stocks have ended the day sharply lower after the government said personal incomes fell last month by the largest amount in nearly three years while consumer spending...

A panel of federal appeals court judges pushed a U.S. government lawyer on Wednesday to answer why FBI letters sent out to Internet service providers seeking...

The top U.S. commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus, has given his military superiors and Defense Secretary Robert Gates his initial recommendation on when to resume a...

A lush, under-the-stars spread of handmade bread, gourmet olives and fine wine makes an unlikely launch for a weekend dedicated to ending hunger, empowering poor...

Gold prices fell slightly Friday as a stronger dollar prompted selling from investors seeking commodities as an inflation hedge.

Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami say Gustav has again strengthened into a hurricane.