HALF MOON BAY, Calif. — A gourd weighing 2,058 pounds took first prize and set a new tournament record Monday at an annual pumpkin-weighing contest in Northern Californi...
NEW YORK — Former “Saturday Night Live” cast member Jan Hooks, whose impressions ranged from Nancy Reagan to Sinead O’Connor to Tammy Faye Bakker during a five-year stin...
Mechanical failure blamed
MECHANIC FALLS, Maine — A mechanical problem caused a Jeep towing a wagon full of passengers to careen down a steep hill and slam into a tree du...
STOCKHOLM — French economist Jean Tirole won the Nobel Prize for economics today for research on market power and regulation.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences cited...
Monitoring of workers intensifies
DALLAS — Health officials are intensifying the monitoring of hospital workers who provided care to the first person to be diagnosed with...
CHICAGO — Sarah Goldberg, who starred in the TV series “7th Heaven” and the film “Jurassic Park III,” has died. She was 40.
Goldberg died in her sleep of natural causes ...
Out-of-network charges rise 5%
LOS ANGELES — The penalty for using an ATM that is not affiliated with your bank went up 5 percent over the past year.
The average fee for ...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A federal judge on Sunday struck down Alaska's first-in-the-nation ban on gay marriages, the latest court decision in a busy week for the issue.
The ...
The next time you go out for cheeseburgers or pizza, you might consider washing it down with a glass of grapefruit juice.
A study from the University of California, Berk...
Students accused of sex crimes
PARLIN, N.J. — Seven students were charged with sex crimes in connection with a series of assaults amid an investigation into hazing by a h...
