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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A homeless Kansas City man will soon have well over $100,000 after returning an engagement ring to a woman who accidentally dropped it in his cup earlier this month.
"I think in our world we often jump to like the worst con...
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The AMC hit television series "Breaking Bad" about the methamphetamine wars in Albuquerque is helping the homeless.
New Mexico's largest emergency shelter says the show recently donated boxes of clothing worn by cast member...
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NEW YORK (AP) — Americans' confidence in the economy rebounded in February, reversing three straight months of declines as shoppers began adjusting to a payroll tax hike last month.
The New York-based Conference Board says Tuesday that its Consume...
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WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. home prices rose at a healthy pace in December compared with a year ago, driven higher by rising sales and a smaller supply of available homes.
The Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller 20-city home price index, released Tuesda...
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WATERTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — A northern New York man has admitted he used a baseball bat to smash up a head shop after his son overdosed on bath salts sold at the store.
The Post-Standard of Syracuse reports (http://bit.ly/XDjs1V ) that 49-year-old Dan A...
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ATLANTA (AP) — Home Depot's fiscal fourth-quarter net income surged 32 percent, helped by an extra week and strong U.S. sales.
The home improvement retailer also said Tuesday that it will buy back $17 billion of its common stock and boosted its qua...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — More Americans fell behind on their auto loan payments in the last three months of 2012, a time of the year when some borrowers' financial obligations temporarily take a backseat to spending on holiday shopping.
Beyond the seaso...
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NEW YORK (AP) — Dr. C. Everett Koop has long been regarded as the nation's doctor— even though it has been nearly a quarter-century since he was surgeon general.
Koop, who died Monday at his home in Hanover, N.H., at age 96, was by far the best ...
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BINGHAMTON, N.Y. (AP) — When word spread about the potential natural gas riches of the Marcellus Shale, Kimberly More saw it as the hope for saving her horse farm.
She figured that leasing her 170 acres to a drilling company could bring an upfront...
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Kate Hopkins didn't know the man in the casket, never met him or his family. Yet, Hopkins stood watch over 48-year-old Francisco Carmona's funeral on a gray, cold day at a county-owned cemetery in south Louisville.
Hopkins j...
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CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Even though he lived in the same quiet neighborhood for decades, no one seemed to know Walter Samaszko Jr. He was so unknown that weeks passed before authorities discovered he had died in his modest Carson City home.
When ...
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NEW YORK (AP) — Tuesday marks the 20th anniversary of the first terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.
A noontime ceremony is planned to honor the six people who died in the 1993 blast in an underground garage below one of the twin towers. Mor...
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Police say gunmen have shot dead a police officer protecting a team of polio workers during a U.N.-backed vaccination campaign in northwestern Pakistan.
Police officer Fazal Wahid says no polio workers were wounded in Tue...
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CHICAGO (AP) — The primary contest to replace disgraced former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson was in the hands of Chicago-area voters Tuesday, just three months after his resignation and an intense period of campaigning by more than a dozen candidates.
T...
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OTAKI, New Zealand (AP) — Sandra Vidulich is so excited about the leather boots she ordered through Amazon that she rips open the box in front of the postman and tries them on.
"I looove them," she declares, as the driveway at her tree-lined home ...
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LUXOR, Egypt (AP) — A hot air balloon flying over Egypt's ancient city of Luxor caught fire and crashed into a sugar cane field on Tuesday, killing at least 18 foreign tourists, a security official said.
It was one of the worst accidents involving...
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DETROIT (AP) — Federal safety regulators are deciding if they'll investigate a complaint that the steering can fail on the Toyota Prius.
The government says in documents that an automotive laboratory in Virginia asked for the investigation after e...
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WASHINGTON (AP) — One of the largest U.S. electricity producers will stop burning coal at two of its power plants under a legal settlement reached with the EPA, eight states and several environmental groups.
American Electric Power agreed late Fri...
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Education Secretary Arne Duncan on Monday announced a $15 million AmeriCorps program to help some of the nation's worst performing schools increase their graduation rates.
Duncan said the three-year program, called the School Tur...
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FINDLAY, Ohio (AP) — Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. said Monday that its fourth-quarter net income fell by more than half, hurt by tough comparisons to results boosted by a hefty tax benefit a year ago.
Despite the drop, the results came in well ahe...
