NEW YORK -- Yahoo swept out Scott Thompson as CEO Sunday in an effort to clean up a mess created by an exaggeration about his education that destroyed his credibility as he set out to...
CHICAGO -- A speeding car hit a support beam of a Chicago elevated train track, crashing with enough force for the vehicle to split in two and killing four female passengers inside, authorities said Sunday.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A teen ministry official says two of the five people aboard a small plane that crashed in Kansas on the way to a Christian youth rally in Iowa were able to walk away from the crash.
BURBANK, Calif. -- Law enforcement officers in Southern California searched in rugged mountain terrain for a second day on Sunday for a missing FBI agent who was said to be despondent and possibly suicidal.
TRENTON, N.J. -- State education officials will no longer use a standardized test question that asked third-graders to reveal a secret and write about why it was difficult to keep.
GUNTOWN, Miss -- Days of grueling searches for two young girls and the kidnapper who killed their mother and sister led to the kind of terrain that favors the hunted -- high hardwoods and deep ravines near a red-brick church perched on a hill.
CHANUTE, Kan -- A small airplane that crashed in southeast Kansas on Friday was carrying five people with connections to Oral Roberts University to a Christian youth rally in Iowa.
NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y -- Nik Wallenda has performed his first practice walk on the tightrope he'll use to walk above Niagara Falls next month.
PHOENIX -- The careers of most politicians would crumble under the heavy scrutiny that the self-proclaimed toughest sheriff in America now faces.
DYERSBURG, Tenn -- Two residents of a Tennessee assisted living center plan to marry on Sunday, more than 60 years after they first met.
DALLAS -- An Oregon peacemaker said she's so upset by the apparent slaughter of a rare white buffalo calf --deemed "the hope of all nations" by a Lakota Sioux rancher last year -- that her organization is donating a white buffalo bull from its herd.
WASHINGTON -- The Time magazine cover photo of a mom breast-feeding her 3-year-old son has been generating a lot of debate. But health experts say the real issue is that too few babies that could benefit from a mother's breast milk are getting it.
SACRAMENTO, Calif -- California's budget deficit has swelled to a projected $16 billion -- much larger than had been predicted just months ago -- and will force severe cuts to schools and public safety if voters fail to approve tax increases in November, Gov. Jerry Brown said Saturday.
HARRISBURG, Pa -- One of the two charges against two Penn State administrators will likely be dismissed now that prosecutors have come forward to change by one year the date they allege former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky sexually assaulted a boy in the team's showers, legal experts said.
SALT LAKE CITY -- A scientist accused of stealing secret formulas from a Utah chemistry company has pleaded guilty to a federal computer charge.
ATLANTA -- Just down the hall from the reference desk at Emory University's law library in a room housing antique legal texts is Stanley the golden retriever puppy, barking his head off.
NEW YORK -- The reputation that Jamie Dimon honed for decades on Wall Street has been severely damaged in a matter of days.
GUNTOWN, Miss. -- Hope was fading that two young sisters abducted from their Tennessee home would be found alive two weeks after they vanished: Their kidnapper had already killed their mother and sister, and he was armed with a pistol as officers closed in.
RAGLAND, Ala. -- When 9-year-old Katelynn Arnold didn't appear right away after one of her frequent bicycle rides along her rural Alabama road, her concerned aunt set out to look for the girl.
RALEIGH, N.C. -- A federal judge refused to throw out campaign corruption charges against John Edwards on Friday, meaning the former presidential hopeful will have to present his case to a jury.
