A failed plan to rescue Lehman Brothers was followed Sunday by more seismic shocks from Wall Street, including a government-brokered takeover of Merrill Lynch by the Bank o...

Frank Mundus, the legendary shark fisherman said to have inspired the Captain Quint character in the movie "Jaws," has died. He was 82.Mundus died Wednesday at The Q...

Bank of America Corp. is buying Merrill Lynch & Co. for about $50 billion in a deal that should lift the uncertainty shrouding Merrill since the start of the credit cri...

Today is Monday, Sept. 15, the 259th day of 2008. There are 107 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Sept. 15, 1789, the U.S. Department of F...

Federal investigators say they will seek the cell phone records of two teenagers and a train engineer as they probe whether text messages factored into a fiery commuter tra...

Bank of America Corp. has agreed to buy Merrill Lynch & Co. for about $44 billion, or around $29 a share, according to The Wall Street Journal. A deal between the two b...

Texas Gov. Rick Perry said Sunday an investigation was planned into why staff at a public housing complex apparently left residents without care overnight during Hurricane ...

The remnants of Hurricane Ike swept into the Midwest Sunday with powerful winds and flooding that were being blamed for at least 12 deaths. Thousands have been evacuated an...

What looked to be a failed plan to rescue Lehman Brothers may be triggering a stunning transformation of the Wall Street landscape on Sunday as two of the biggest names in ...

A look at storm-related deaths, by state, reported by authorities after Ike's passage from Texas northward across the U.S. midsection:Texas — seven dead, including...

An alphabetical list of people killed in Friday's Metrolink train disaster and information known about them.Families of one male victim and one female victim have no...

Atul Vyas scored in the top 1 percent on his medical school entry exams, but he was having trouble answering one question on applications to Harvard and Duke: Describe a ha...

A dispatcher tried to warn the engineer of a Metrolink commuter train that he was about to collide with a freight train but the call came too late, rail officials investiga...

Houston's airports are planning to reopen to commercial flights Monday with limited service after suffering some damage from Hurricane Ike.Flights stopped coming and...

Houston's airports are planning to reopen Monday with limited service after suffering some damage from Hurricane Ike.George Bush Intercontinental Airport and Hobby A...

Hundreds of first responders at two staging areas in Texas for Hurricane Ike have run out of food and water.Congressman John Culberson said Sunday that 300 National ...

Atul Vyas scored in the top 1 percent on his medical school entry exams, but he was having trouble answering one question on applications to Harvard and Duke: Describe a ha...

The state's top legislative leaders on Sunday announced what they described as a breakthrough in California's record budget impasse, potentially ending a stalemate that set...

A father and son drowned in northwest Indiana while trying to rescue children from a flooded ditch as heavy rains from the remnants of Hurricane Ike forced hundreds of evac...

As of Sunday, Sept. 14, 2008, at least 4,157 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.Pilfered primate freed from jail, returns to Maine

An 8-foot-tall mechanical gorilla is back home at an eastern Maine flea market-style store two weeks after it was stolen and later dumped in a cornfield in Vermont.A...

The death toll from Hurricane Ike rose to 25 across nine states Sunday, as rescuers said they had saved nearly 2,000 people from waterlogged streets and splintered houses. ...

Jeannine Burks stood outside her Houston home Sunday and surveyed the damage from Hurricane Ike: Tree limbs, debris and standing water everywhere. She had no power, no phon...

Rail officials say a dispatcher tried to warn the engineer of a Metrolink commuter train that he was about to collide with a freight train but the call came too late.1 dead, 2 injured in San Jose hit-and-run

A motorist drove onto a sidewalk near a park on Sunday and ran down three men, killing one and injuring the two others, authorities said.One man has been arrested an...

Federal investigators worked Sunday to unravel the commuter train collision with a freight locomotive that killed at least 25 people, urging caution as a transit company bl...

"Man's best friend" doesn't go far enough for Buddy — a German shepherd who remembered his training and saved his owner's life by calling 911 when the man had a seizure.<...

Three years ago, an elderly Italian man pulled his van into a South Florida park to sell some rare, 2,500-year-old emeralds plundered from a South American tomb. But Ugo Ba...

Rescue crews canvassing neighborhoods with dump trucks, helicopters and airboats have saved nearly 2,000 residents who ignored evacuation orders and stayed to face Hurrican...

The reporter who sat across from John McCain and Barack Obama for separate interviews that aired on NBC's "Today" show Friday was only 23.Was he nervous?"Not ...

Nearly 2,000 people in Texas who refused orders to evacuate before Hurricane Ike have been rescued by land, air and water.A door-by-door search is under way in Galve...

U.S. hospitals and long-term care facilities annually flush millions of pounds of unused pharmaceuticals down the drain, pumping contaminants into America's drinking water,...

Crews navigated debris-strewn streets Sunday to reach people still stuck in some of the thousands of homes flooded by Hurricane Ike. Authorities imposed a curfew in Houston...

The new Interstate 35W bridge, replacing one whose deadly collapse into the Mississippi River scarred the city's image and emotions, may be getting kudos for opening ahead ...

Crews navigated debris-strewn streets Sunday to reach people still stuck in some of the thousands of homes flooded by Hurricane Ike. Authorities imposed a curfew in Houston...

In a frustrating quirk in government policy, the most tightly controlled drugs — like painkilling narcotics prone to abuse — are the ones that most often elude environm...

It began as a case of six missing boaters. Then came the dramatic tale of an attack on the high seas by Cuban pirates, four fatal shootings and the rescue of two survivors ...

Crews navigated debris-strewn streets to reach people still stuck in some of the thousands of homes flooded by Hurricane Ike, while authorities in the nation's fourth-large...

Federal Aviation Administration officials gathered Friday to promote new flight and navigational technologies that reduce fuel use and greenhouse gas emissions while also d...

Houston officials have issued a weeklong curfew for the city devastated by Hurricane Ike.Officials announced that a 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew would begin Sunday night ...

Feds seek phone records in probe of text messages as possible factor in deadly LA train crash....

Rescue crews canvassed neighborhoods inundated by Ike's storm surge early Sunday morning, racing against time to save those who spent a second harrowing night trapped amid ...

Forecasters warned of "certain death," a possible 25-foot surge of water that would wash across the Texas and Louisiana coast, wiping away towns in a white-capped, churning...

Rescue crews canvassed neighborhoods inundated by Ike's storm surge early Sunday morning, racing against time to save those who spent a second harrowing night trapped amid ...

Hurricane Ike's deadly surge has kept thousands of evacuees holed up in cramped quarters — shelters, RVs, even a warehouse — as they face the prospect of returning to f...

Weakened to a tropical depression, Ike was expected on Sunday to move northeast through the Lower and Mid-Mississippi Valleys and into the Lower Great Lakes region. Three t...

Federal investigators worked Sunday to unravel the commuter train collision with a freight locomotive that killed at least 25 people, urging caution as a transit company bl...

Hurricane Ike spared Louisiana a direct hit, but its winds and waters killed two people as coastal areas were inundated with a storm surge that crawled some 30 miles inland...

Rescue crews canvassed neighborhoods inundated by Ike's storm surge early Sunday morning, racing against time to save those who spent a second harrowing night trapped amid ...

Rescue crews canvassed neighborhoods inundated by Ike's storm surge early Sunday morning in a race against time to rescue those who faced a second harrowing night trapped a...

The walls that line the pair of lanes in this tiny bowling alley seem close enough to make a bowler feel claustrophobic. But at a 100th anniversary party Saturday, the wall...

A commuter train engineer who ran a stop signal was blamed Saturday for the nation's deadliest rail disaster in 15 years, a wreck that killed 25 people and left such a mass...

Rescue crews canvassed neighborhoods inundated by Ike's storm surge early Sunday morning, racing against time to save those who faced a second harrowing night trapped amid ...