Police: Former Chargers safety Terrence Kiel dies

The Bush administration, acting to avert the potential for major financial turmoil, announced Sunday that the federal government was taking control of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Another year, another attempted comeback for Britney Spears at the MTV Video Music Awards.

Tropical Storm Hanna rolled into Connecticut on Sunday, bringing heavy rain, wind gusts and oppressive humidity.

Powerful Hurricane Ike rolled down an uncertain path Sunday that may lead to the U.S. Gulf Coast late this week, forcing emergency officials to pay attention and leaving millions of people from Florida to Mexico to wonder where it will eventually strike.

Five days a week, Linda Graham trolls tattered neighborhoods of this once thriving steel city outside Pittsburgh for unregistered voters she can sign up as Democrats.

Authorities in Pennsylvania say a fourth teenager has been charged in the fatal beating of a Mexican immigrant.

John McCain touts Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as a force in the his battle against earmarks and entrenched power brokers, but under her leadership the state this year asked for almost $300 per person in requests for pet projects from one of McCain's top adver

Bacteria embedded deep inside slicing equipment at Maple Leaf Foods may be to blame for the deadly listeriosis outbreak that caused 13 deaths.

Former Charger safety Terrence Kiel was killed late Friday after he was thrown from a Chevy sedan he was driving. He was 27 years old. A witness saw