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None of the tickets sold for the Powerball game Saturday night matched all six numbers drawn, which were:
Mechanics and engineers on Sunday righted a crane that had been poised precariously after it tilted and hit a 25-story building near Wall Street the day before, showering debris ...
Maybe duct tape doesn't work for everything. Police said an 18-year-old Cadillac man who fastened duct tape to the bottom of his shoes in an attempt to conceal the robbery of a ...
Small business owners in the Upper Midwest have just gone through a disaster preparation drill as the Red River rose and threatened to repeat last year's catastrophic flooding. ...
Are doctors overtreating breast cancer?
More than 1,100 communities have approached Google Inc. in hopes of landing one of the ultra-fast broadband networks that the company plans to build in a handful of spots around ...
It will probably come as a surprise to most Americans, but the winter just finished was the fifth warmest on record, worldwide.
A one-time priest who later became an evolutionary geneticist and molecular biologist and helped scientifically refute creationism with his research was honored Thursday with on ...
Fed up with waiting, President Barack Obama announced Saturday he would bypass a vacationing Senate and name 15 people to key administration jobs, wielding for the first time th ...
Tea party activists want to turn conservative anger over the health care overhaul into political muscle in November elections as they call thousands to the hardscrabble desert t ...
Mitt Romney has a problem with Obamacare. It looks a lot like Romneycare. The prospective Republican presidential candidate's vulnerability on the issue was evident this week, w ...
Team Jacob was triumphant at the Kids' Choice Awards. "Twilight" star Taylor Lautner picked up two orange, blimp-shaped trophies at Saturday's 23rd annual shenanigan-p ...
A New Jersey judge has again denied a request to block the release of episodes of the MTV reality series "Jersey Shore."
Unsealed search warrants in the Michael Jackson case reveal large quantities of general anesthetic and dozens of tubes of skin-whitening creams were among items found in the sin ...
A battle by a pair of paparazzi at Los Angeles International Airport ended with one of them in the hospital and the other in jail.
McLaren's Jenson Button survived the spins and crashes around him to win the Formula One Australian Grand Prix in a thrilling race Sunday, claiming back-to-back victories at Alb ...
Everyone's ready to go, from Ichiro Suzuki and the refurbished Seattle Mariners all the way to Roy Halladay and the playoff-tested Philadelphia Phillies.
A day after Gilbert Arenas was sentenced to 30 days in a halfway house for bringing guns into the Washington Wizards' locker room, team president Ernie Grunfeld reaffirmed that ...
The school that never celebrates midnight madness to kick off the basketball season finally held a late-night campus party.
Authorities say NFL linebacker Joey Porter has been arrested in Bakersfield on suspicion of drunken driving and accused of assaulting an officer and resisting arrest.
Winless for two years, Ernie Els put himself in position Saturday for his second straight victory.
Boston Bruins center Marc Savard believes the hit to the head he took from Pittsburgh's Matt Cooke was made with "a little intent to injure" and that he's still feelin ...
The light towers are in place atop the Olympic Stadium. The diving pool is filled with water. The athletes' village is expanding daily.
Paraguay soccer player Salvador Cabanas, who is staging a miraculous recovery after being shot in the head two months ago, has been out taking free kicks and shooting baskets in ...