CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- Authorities in West Virginia say a fire broke out at a two-story wood frame home, killing six children and two adults. A woman and a baby also were hurt....
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- I thought my son would be much older before I had to tell him about the Black Male Code. He's only 12, still sleeping with stuffed animals, still afraid of the dark. But after the Trayvon Martin tragedy, I needed to explain to...
ATLANTA (AP) -- Well, this looks familiar. Kentucky is back in a regional final. So is Baylor....
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) -- A large fishing vessel swept away by the tsunami that devastated Japan last year has been spotted adrift off British Columbia in western Canada....
HONOLULU (AP) -- A submarine that will take "Titanic" director James Cameron to the Earth's deepest point has made a successful unmanned test dive....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Jon Greiner's election to the Utah Senate caused his firing as Ogden police chief. Philadelphia transit cop Matthew Arlen was barred from a local school board race in Pennsylvania. And New York state port official Terrence...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court will begin hearing arguments on Monday over President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, derisively labeled "Obamacare" by its opponents. A look at how the...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Are we there yet? Not quite. Mitt Romney's two steps forward, one flub back campaign continues its tantalizing progress toward a total victory that always seems just ahead....
BEIJING (AP) -- China says former U.N. chief Kofi Annan will visit next week to discuss efforts to mediate an end to the crisis in Syria....
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Thomas Robinson kept missing easy buckets. Tyshawn Taylor had a shooting performance he'd rather soon forget. Kansas made just two shots from outside 5 feet, and seemed to be in constant trouble against North Carolina State....
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- The last of the little guys gave North Carolina a massive scare....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A discarded chunk of a Russian rocket is forcing six space station astronauts to seek shelter in escape capsules early Saturday....
MIAMI (AP) -- Dwyane Wade and LeBron James were only a few miles away from Trayvon Martin on Feb. 26, participating in the NBA All-Star game on the night the unarmed black teenager wearing a hooded sweatshirt was shot to death by a neighborhood...
HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) -- You're cruising along the highway when you see a bunch of green bills fluttering around like flakes in a snow globe. You get closer and you realize it's cash. Other drivers are pulling over to snatch what they can. What do...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Facebook has taken steps in recent days to address more worries about privacy, warning employers not to ask prospective employees for their passwords and trying to clarify its user "rights and responsibilities" policies....
METAIRIE, La. (AP) -- Sean Payton offered an apology Friday in his first formal statement since the NFL announced his season-long suspension two days earlier, saying he takes "full responsibility" for the bounty scandal that led to unprecedented...
PHOENIX (AP) -- A pregnant Jessica Simpson on the cover of Elle magazine was apparently too much for some customers of a Tucson Safeway store, where a worker covered it with cardboard....
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- Yankees reliever Joba Chamberlain dislocated his right ankle while playing with his son at a local spot that had a trampoline, jeopardizing his immediate future after yet another odd misstep for New York's bullpen at spring...
WEST MONROE, La. (AP) -- Republican presidential nominating contests often reveal a rural-urban split in the party, but what sets this year's campaign apart is the emphasis Rick Santorum is placing on that divide and wearing his successes in...
SANFORD, Fla. (AP) -- The fatal shooting of a black teenager by a neighborhood watch captain who then went free has led to nationwide protests calling for the shooter's arrest. Trayvon Martin's parents, civil rights leaders and social media users...