WASHINGTON – The upcoming inauguration of Barack Obama is an attractive target for international and domestic terrorists, but U.S. intelligence officials have no information about specific threats to the Jan. 20 event. An internal intelligence ...

If Rangers, one of the top clubs in Scotland, suddenly decide they're going to sell their top goal-scorer it just shows you the scary financial situation they find themselves in. At a time when they are only five points of the lead in the Scottish ...

Historic Low Level station in Wolverhampton could be transformed into a huge Chinese restaurant, it was revealed today. The move comes after a multi-million casino deal for the site collapsed at the eleventh hour. Workers have spent more than two ...

THE SINGLE most regrettable policy decison Governor Deval Patrick has made is to let the state's charter school movement languish - and now a compelling new study of Boston schools illustrates why. Compared with students in traditional schools ...

Attorneys for embattled Montgomery insurance executive John W. Goff are seeking to have the federal criminal indictment against Goff dismissed for bad faith prosecution. Goff's attorneys filed two new motions in U.S. District Court in Montgomery last ...

A headteacher was unlawfully killed after his car was hit by a businessman whose speeding van was “massively overloaded” with beer barrels, a coroner ruled today. Daniel Slinn, 44, the head of Calshot Primary School, in Birmingham, died in a six ...

It doesn't take long for people to find out their shot at a multi million jackpot is only a convenience store trip away. Powerball tickets are being sold for the first time ever in Florida and the state's lottery ticket outlets say people are buying ...

An East St. Louis man has been sentenced to six years in prison after pleading guilty to drug charges related to the 2007 death of a 4-year-old girl. Thirty-four-year-old Pernell Hampton pleaded guilty Monday in St. Clair County to two counts of... A ...

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called Gov. Rod Blagojevich "corrupt" Sunday and accused him of trying to divert attention from his criminal case by falsely alleging Reid opposed African-American candidates seeking Illinois' Senate seat ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) _ Roy Saari, a former world record-holding swimmer and gold medalist at the 1964 Olympics, died Tuesday. He was 63. Saari, who won nine NCAA individual titles at the University of Southern California, died Tuesday in Mammoth Lakes ...