Search results for

Photos and video show how the Coast Guard fired on the drifting Ryou-Un Maru to send it to the bottom of the Gulf of Alaska. It was a threat to ships passing through the area.

"Every time we turned over a stone we found 50 more with all kinds of things crawling out," General Services Administration Inspector General Brian Miller told Congress this morning.

Mitt Romney on Monday endorsed the idea of extending a law that curbs interest rates paid by some recipients of federal student loans, a cause that President Obama has made a campaign issue.

A new email questions how much the former New Jersey governor knew about a $200 million transfer.

Meanwhile Chicago has set warm-temperature records for the past five days.

Parents said they believe a better grade school education will put their kids on a path to a better college.

Automakers report having their best month in about four years, as buyers went in search of smaller vehicles. At the current pace, sales may be back to where they were in 2007 — before the most recent recession.

In Pennsylvania, Oscar Vance has been chief detective in the Montgomery County District Attorney's office for 48 years. He will be retiring at the end of the month. But he says he will work as a private investigator, and start mentoring programs to help kids stay away from crime.

Don't press play if you're don't like heights and scary thrills. But rest assured, 22-year-old Australian Erin Langworthy lived to tell the tale.

Besieged by the digital age it helped spark, the once-dominant photo giant hopes to restructure and raise cash by selling some of its more than 1,000 patents.