Change is in the air for Detroit city workers.City employees will be urged not to wear perfume, cologne or aftershave as a result of a settlement in a federal lawsui...

Getting people to pay for news online at this point would be "like trying to force butterflies back into their cocoons," a new consumer survey suggests.That was one ...

EDITOR'S NOTE — They were "our girls" — the children of a Haitian orphanage, taken to heart by a Tennessee church. But then an earthquake struck, and the congregation s...

Today is Monday, March 15, the 74th day of 2010. There are 291 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On March 15, 44 B.C., Roman dictator ...

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's wife has been released from a Virginia hospital, where she was taken after being seriously injured in a traffic accident.Reid spo...

Peter Graves, the tall, stalwart actor likely best known for his portrayal of Jim Phelps, leader of a gang of special agents who battled evil conspirators in the long-runni...

Two people who'd moved into a northern New Jersey town house a day earlier have died in a fire that started in their kitchen and spread upstairs.Police say 52-year-o...

The mystery surrounding a Toyota Prius whose driver reported a stuck accelerator deepened Sunday as the motorist's attorney dismissed a congressional memo that questions hi...

Jene Newsome played by the rules as an Air Force sergeant: She never told anyone in the military she was a lesbian. The 28-year-old's honorable discharge under the "don't a...

Charles Moore, a photographer who chronicled the civil rights movement, has died. He was 79.John Edgley of Edgley Cremation Services in West Palm Beach, Fla., confir...

North Dakota and Minnesota residents who fought off record flooding a year ago in a frantic one-week sandbagging effort were jolted Sunday by the prospect of doing it over ...

The father of a missing Arizona baby says he plans to move to Texas later this month to continue the search for his 8-month-old son.Logan McQueary made the announcem...

Four people on two motorcycles have been killed in western Florida after a pickup truck struck both bikes.All four motorcyclists were ejected and one victim was thro...

Hundreds of admirers of a New Hampshire activist who was known as Granny D and walked across the country to raise awareness of campaign finance reform have attended her mem...

A secretary of state. A top presidential adviser. An iconic film star. Fashion designers, TV anchors, and a queen.Those prominent women and many more crowded into a ...

Last month, the Northeast was smothered by blizzards. Now, it's waterlogged by torrential rains.The region mopped up Sunday following a bout with high wind and heavy...

Apples are getting some competition from cows in the debate over what New Hampshire's state drink should be — cider or milk.The House will weigh in this week when ...

The Red River is rising — and so is the anxiety level for residents in North Dakota and Minnesota who dealt with record flooding last year.A National Weather Servi...

A high school soccer player has been stabbed to death outside a Massachusetts restaurant where more than 250 teenagers had gathered for a birthday party.Police say 1...

Paul Goulet hopes Connecticut will help him get from under nearly $8,000 he's borrowed for college after losing his job in a paper manufacturing plant.Goulet, 55, is...

A Colorado woman who says she is the mother of an American held and later released in Ireland over an alleged plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist said Sunday she does not kno...

Thousands of ships over hundreds of years have navigated the rolling waters of Maine's Penobscot River across the street from Jon Johansen's home.Inspired by that hi...

Authorities say five people were wounded in a shooting at an apartment complex in Southern California.Pomona police Sgt. Christian Hsu says a gunman approached a cro...

A U.S. missionary who was released from a Haiti jail last week has returned to her home in Idaho after spending several days recuperating in Florida.Charisa Coulter,...

A lawyer representing a driver who reports his Toyota Prius sped out of control on a California freeway is sticking by his client's story despite a congressional memo that ...

Up here, folks have another word for roadkill. It's "dinner."When a whitetail gets clipped by a passing vehicle on Route 3, conservation officer Chris Egan or Police...

Ashley Delgado graduated from one of Rhode Island's worst-performing high schools and wanted to go to college — if only she could get there.When Delgado's parents ...

Inmate Michael Murphy usually started by seeking a small favor. That would often lead to a kiss or love letters. And in at least five cases, he convinced female prison empl...

This sprawling metropolis is built atop one of the richest oil basins in the world. Wells dot the city landscape, some hidden behind hollow building facades much like a Hol...

Investigators with Toyota Motor Corp. and the federal government could not replicate the runaway speeding reported by a Prius owner who said his car's accelerator stuck as ...

Alice is still ruling the movie palace.Johnny Depp and Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland" easily remained the No. 1 weekend draw with $62 million, according to studi...

Many Americans with leaky heart valves soon might be able to get them fixed without open-heart surgery. A study showed that a tiny clip implanted through an artery was safe...

The retirement nest egg of an entire generation is stashed away in this small town along the Ohio River: $2.5 trillion in IOUs from the federal government, payable to the S...

Key results from a landmark federal study are in, and the results are disappointing for diabetics: Adding drugs to drive blood pressure and blood-fats lower than current ta...

Odette. Benita. Valancia. Atanie.Each Sunday morning, members of White Stone Church spread photos of the girls' grinning, impish faces across a folding table in the ...

A complex of storms in the eastern portion of the country were forecast to continue providing the most active weather in the country Sunday.The main low pressure sys...

Utility crews pushed through fallen trees and windblown debris to reach downed power lines Sunday, working to restore electricity to hundreds of thousands of homes and busi...

President Barack Obama is promising parents and their kids that with his administration's help they will have better teachers in improved schools so U.S. students can make ...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Saturday she's confident the House will pass health care legislation and dismissed Republican criticism that she did not have enough votes f...

A Wisconsin man who says his Green Bay Packers loyalties helped save his life has been voted into the team's Fan Hall of Fame.The team announced the honor Saturday f...

Strong winds and heavy rain pounded parts of the Northeast on Saturday, knocking out power to more than a half-million homes and businesses and stranding about 500 passenge...

Thousands of teachers, classmates and neighbors filled a high school stadium Saturday to honor a 17-year-old girl whose body was discovered in a shallow, lakeside grave as ...

Before her daughter disappeared last fall, Christine Mott recalls that the 31-year-old who had been held in connection with an alleged assassination plot announced she had ...

A memo drafted for a congressional panel says that investigators with Toyota Motor Corp. and the federal government were unable to make a Prius speed out of control as its ...