Super Bowl hero Plaxico Burress is done for the year. The New York Giants fined and suspended Burress on Tuesday for four games - the rest of the regular season - after he accidentally shot himself in the right thigh over the weekend at a Manhattan nightclub.
Ford Motor Co. CEO Alan Mulally says he'll work for $1 per year if the automaker has to take any government loan money.
A handful of top executives from American International Group Inc. spent thousands of dollars during a recent English hunting trip, even as the New York-based insurer asked for an additional $37.8 billion loan from the Federal Reserve.
The sheriff here said Wednesday that he's ordering his deputies to stop evicting people from foreclosed properties because many people his office has helped throw out on the street are renters who did nothing wrong.
As Wall Street faced a wipeout this year, some of America's richest people got sucked into the vortex too, losing millions.
Senate Democrats are proposing to add government help for homeowners and limits on executive compensation to legislation providing a $700 billion financial system bailout.
Sen. Charles Schumer plans to offer a broad economic proposal for the government to offer a financial lifeline to those banks that are willing to renegotiate mortgages for those on the brink of losing their homes.
Two men charged with beating a homeless man to death and attacking two others intended to kill because they hit the victims in the head with baseball bats, a prosecutor said Thursday.
Henry Cejudo had more to wrestle with than a world-class Japanese opponent on his way to an improbable gold medal on Tuesday. He had to grapple with a childhood that saw his mother illegally emigrate from Mexico for a better life in America.
The family of a gay teenager who was fatally shot in class blames the school district for allowing their son to wear makeup and feminine clothing to school.
Atlanta's airport has begun warning travelers of the dangers of "shoe entrapment" on escalators.
A Mexican-born condemned prisoner was executed Tuesday night for the rape and murder of two teenage girls 15 years ago after a divided U.S. Supreme Court rejected his request for a reprieve.
Philadelphia officials have suspended seven more city workers in the case of a disabled teen who died under a city agency's watch.
Former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan said that the housing market is "nowhere near the bottom" and that the economy is "right on the brink" of slipping into recession.
Iran's president on Tuesday blamed the United States and other "big powers" for global ills such as nuclear proliferation and AIDS, and accused them of exploiting the U.N. for their own gain.
Road rage killings put San Francisco's liberal politics to the test, setting off a debate over its sanctuary law that shields undocumented immigrants from deportation.
Modern employees are often highly skilled, intelligent individuals who solve the most challenging problems. But put a jammed copy machine in front of them and panic ensues.
A Texas girl who gave birth in a school bathroom was charged with capital murder Thursday by police, who said she killed the newborn by choking and flushing him in the toilet.
The breezy black-and-white dress worn by Michelle Obama on "The View" has become an overnight sellout across the country. Its surprised but happy designer, Donna Ricco, said that Michelle Obama's choice "speaks to what I'm doing every day."
In the few places that allow storefront dispensaries, entrepreneurs are adopting nonprofit business models to cope with legal gray areas
Officials say an alligator bit off part of a golfer's arm as he leaned over to pick up his ball at a private South Carolina course.
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