A blue American League Championship flag raised high above Rangers Ballpark in Arlington shortly before Friday's opening game summed up the hopes of fans packing the sold-out stadium for the beginning of the 2011 season.

Finally, after what's seemed like months of real stinkers or movies with mixed receptions, we have something (nearly) everyone can agree is worth seeing: Duncan Jones' science-fiction thriller "Source Code.

After rebels refused for weeks to negotiate with Moammar Kadafi's regime, a rebel leader offers a cease-fire if Kadafi agrees to withdraw his forces from besieged cities and permit peaceful protests.

US employers added jobs for the sixth straight month and the national unemployment rate fell to a two-year low in March, providing more evidence of an advancing economic recovery, the US Labor Department reported yesterday.

SEATTLE (Reuters) - More than one million website addresses have been compromised by a sophisticated hacking attack that injects code into sites that link to a fraudulent software sales operation.

April 2 (Bloomberg) -- Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. may face antirust obstacles in its bid to acquire NYSE Euronext, the owner of the New York Stock Exchange, two law professors said.

While many believe Derrick Rose is assured the MVP award, the Chicago Bulls likely need more victories to obtain the Eastern Conference's top seed in the postseason.

Fans of convenience store hot dogs will get to read how many calories are in a dog. But beer drinkers won't have to deal with the guilt.

HOUSTON -- VCU's path to the Final Four is unlike anything we've seen, primarily because the Rams have absolutely obliterated their opponents.

The drug company lambasted for increasing the price of a pregnancy drug from $20 to $1500 a dose said Friday that it's cutting the revised price by more than half.

Rutgers University is getting a lot of flack for spending big bucks on a certain pickle-loving reality star. Why the outcry? New Jersey's Rutgers University is receiving a lot of flack for booking pint-sized Jersey Shore star Snooki for an appearance ...

PHOENIX - Arizona's Medicaid program, criticized last year when it halted some organ transplants to save money, has come up with another cost-saving measure that has people talking.

Chrysler Group LLC said its 31 percent sales increase last month was led by midsize sedans. Sales growth for the company's cars outpaced trucks, but truck sales still were strong.

ABIDJAN, April 1 (Reuters) - Ivory Coast's RTI state television controlled by Laurent Gbagbo resumed broadcasting on Friday after it was closed for almost a day by heavy fighting, a Reuters witness said.

SAN ANTONIO -- Twenty-four days and almost 1600 miles separated the births of Tim Duncan and Kevin Garnett, so the possibility that they are fraternal twins can be ruled out.

The US seems to be scratching its head over how to handle anti-government protests in Syria, which is not an ally but is a big regional player, says the BBC's Kim Ghattas in Washington.

MADISON - A week ago, Wisconsin Republicans thought they'd won the fight over the state's polarizing union rights bill. They'd weathered massive protests, outfoxed Senate Democrats who fled the state and gotten around a restraining order blocking the ...

Amazon.com's recently announced cloud-based music storage and streaming product has already run into resistance from the recording industry, but the service may have bigger problems than that.