Five years after the hurricane hit, an editor recounts his remarkable experience in a battered New Orleans. By David Meeks, Los Angeles Times The water lapping at our front steps seemed to stretch forever: waist-deep and rising.

No baseball player has generated as much interest or excitement this season as Stephen Strasburg, the hard-throwing rookie pitcher whose presence in the major leagues has energized the Washington Nationals and captured ...

The Lincoln Memorial -- and the rest of the Mall -- is a popular site for protests and rallies. Here are some noteworthy ones that show how hard it is to measure the size of a protesting crowd.

WASHINGTON - The Food and Drug Administration is planning to inspect all of the country's largest egg farms before the end of next year following the massive recall of tainted eggs linked to a salmonella outbreak that has sickened as many as 1500 ...

It seems like two members of the Young Money family just got a lot closer. On Friday (August 27), Nicki Minaj and Drake seemingly announced on their Twitter pages that they are married.

A company owned by Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, filed suit on Friday against Google, Apple and nine other companies, contending that their online navigation and viewing technology illegally uses patented inventions created by Mr.

Tiger Woods shot a second-round 73, dropping him from a share of the lead into a tie for 14th at the Barclays. By THOMAS KAPLAN PARAMUS, NJ - With a birdie putt, Tiger Woods finished the first round at the Barclays on Thursday with a fist pump and a ...

3PAR has accepted an increased acquisition offer from Dell of US$27 per share, matching Hewlett-Packard's earlier raised bid. 3PAR's board has updated its earlier merger agreement with Dell accordingly, the companies said Friday.

FAIRBANKS, Alaska—This time last year, Joe Miller was augmenting his income from his private legal practice by working as a part-time attorney for the borough here, and had to put in for leave to take an elk-hunting trip with two of his ...

NEW YORK - Levi Johnston chose one of his favorite television venues, CBS' "The Early Show," to declare on Friday that he lied when he previously said he had lied about Sarah Palin.

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- US economic growth slowed to 1.6% in the second quarter, the Commerce Department said Friday, two-thirds the rate that the agency had initially projected for the April-through-June period as ...

SAN JOSÉ MINE, Chile - Huddled around a television set in a dining tent, relatives laughed, smiled and clapped on Friday as they watched the first video images of the 33 miners trapped in a chamber about 2000 feet below.

Boeing Co. has announced yet one more delay for its new 787 Dreamliner, already more than two years behind schedule. It now won't be delivered before mid-February.

Google this week added the ability to make phone calls via Gmail and it seems everyone has been having a wonderful time trying out the new feature; the company revealed yesterday that, during the first 24 hours the feature was live, Gmail users made ...

Apple is poised to introduce a radically redesigned iPod nano next week that will retain its trademark I/O connector despite its drastically reduced form factor, AppleInsider has learned.

MEXICO CITY - Grupo Mexicana, the country's largest airline group, is suspending all operations after an investor group that pledged to turn around the failing carrier failed to reach a cost-cutting agreement with unions, ...

WASHINGTON -- The Food and Drug Administration turned down a request for accelerated approval of Roche-Genentech's trastuzumab-DM1 drug for the treatment of HER2-positive breast cancer.