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Ice and low temperatures Saturday hampered recovery and investigation efforts of the Continental Airlines turboprop plane that crashed Thursday night, as nearly 150 emergency workers and volunteers combed the crash...

Money is an emotional issue, especially during economic hard times. Social scientists warn that once a person's basic needs are met, money doesn't buy happiness. But if you're wondering, or...

The decision to shut down the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay was a dream come true for many Europeans, including anti-terrorism officials who largely have condemned the facility. But European...

About 2 1/2 months after the Mumbai terror attacks, Pakistan acknowledged for the first time Thursday that the assailants plotted and launched the deadly rampage from Pakistani soil. The senior...

Shirley Jean Rickert, a former child actress who was the cute little blond with the spit curls in "Our Gang" comedies in the early 1930s and later became a long-haired...

Molly Bee, a country singer popular in the 1950s and 1960s who was a teenage star on television's "Hometown Jamboree" and "The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show," has died. She was...

Even after the revelation that Alex Rodriguez headed a list of 104 players to fail a steroids test six years ago, the executive director of the players' union called it...

In some of his most conciliatory remarks to date, Iran's president Tuesday said Tehran is prepared to talk with the United States but gave no indication that negotiations might yield...

"Star Trek" will be back in May with the 11th film in a pop culture franchise that has inspired one of the most impassioned fan followings imaginable. TV whiz J.J....

Philip Carey, the ruggedly handsome veteran actor who co-starred in the 1960s TV Western "Laredo" and more recently played the long-running role of a bigger-than-life Texas tycoon on the ABC...