May 25, 2012 4:48 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House is aggressively pushing the idea that, contrary to widespread belief, President Barack Obama is tightfisted with taxpayer dollars. To back it up, the administration cites a media report that claims federal spending is rising at the slowest pace since the Eisenhower...
May 25, 2012 4:48 pm
U.S. House members who are trying to make the step up to the Senate this year are finding themselves on the defensive about Washington experience that traditionally has been a big asset.
May 25, 2012 4:46 pm
Frank Mir is a two-time UFC heavyweight champion with more victories in the division than any fighter. That's why he knows it's never been tougher to pull off what he's trying to accomplish at UFC 146.
May 25, 2012 4:45 pm
Thirty-three years to the day after 6-year-old Etan Patz vanished without a trace while walking to catch a school bus, a man accused of strangling him and dumping his body with the trash was arraigned on a murder charge on Friday in a locked hospital ward where he was being held as a suicide...
May 25, 2012 4:45 pm
The commanding Marine general in one of Afghanistan's hardest-fought regions said Friday he is seeing big improvements in the vetting of Afghan recruits to the country's security forces following attacks by Afghan soldiers on their NATO partners.
May 25, 2012 4:43 pm
More Americans will hit the road this holiday weekend than a year ago. And they'll have a bit more money to spend thanks to lower gas prices.
May 25, 2012 4:41 pm
The White House is aggressively pushing the idea that, contrary to widespread belief, President Barack Obama is tightfisted with taxpayer dollars. To back it up, the administration cites a media report that claims federal spending is rising at the slowest pace since the Eisenhower years.
May 25, 2012 4:41 pm
When Bobby Rahal was racing, he hung a picture of Michael Andretti in his workout room. That's who Rahal wanted to beat more than anyone else on the track. And rest assured, Andretti felt the same way. Looks like they've passed on that vitriol to their kids.
May 25, 2012 4:38 pm
The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Georgia Lottery's "Georgia FIVE Evening" game were: 8-9-2-7-6 (eight, nine, two, seven, six)
May 25, 2012 4:37 pm
Kern County authorities say two toddlers have been killed in a trailer fire in Central California that was accidentally started by two older children playing with matches.
May 25, 2012 4:36 pm
Firefighters worked Friday to corral a wildfire that has chewed through 2,500 acres of tinder-dry grass and light brush that forced the evacuation of an RV park in San Diego County.
May 25, 2012 4:36 pm
Matthew Britton's single up the middle brought home the winning run in Mississippi State's 4-3, 10-inning victory over top-seeded LSU Friday in the Southeastern Conference tournament.
May 25, 2012 4:34 pm
Jason Dufner lists Ben Hogan as his hero. At Hogan's Alley, Dufner had the lead halfway through the Colonial with a chance for a Texas two-step that only Hogan has accomplished.
May 25, 2012 4:32 pm
Wildfires cast a pall over Memorial Day weekend in parts of the West Friday as smoke from a massive New Mexico blaze prompted widespread air-quality warnings and high fire danger in Colorado spurred officials to put thousands of firefighters on standby.
May 25, 2012 4:30 pm
The 75th anniversary celebration for the Golden Gate Bridge kept rolling Friday with California Gov. Jerry Brown comparing the landmark span to his own big dreams for the Golden State.
May 25, 2012 4:27 pm
An alert police officer who boarded a bus full of recent Utah high school graduates headed to Disneyland averted what could have been a deadly road trip after arresting the driver for suspicion of being under the influence of drugs, authorities said Friday.
May 25, 2012 4:27 pm
Alabama won its first women's golf title Friday, holding off two-time champ Southern California by a stroke at the NCAA Division I championship on the 72nd hole. Chirapat Jao-Javanil of Oklahoma won the individual title by four strokes.
May 25, 2012 4:26 pm
Barbara Kydd Graves, the wife of the publisher of Black Enterprise Magazine who aided in the growth of the publication and media company, died Friday.
May 25, 2012 4:25 pm
Two people were reported dead after an afternoon shooting in East Baton Rouge Parish. Few details were available about the Friday shooting. Early reports said the shooting happened outside a home about a mile east of the Baton Rouge Zoo. The sheriff's office was investigating.
May 25, 2012 4:24 pm
Building on recent efforts for California to divest in Iran, the state Assembly on Friday passed a bill that targets insurers for investing in companies that aid Iran's nuclear weapons capabilities.
May 25, 2012 4:23 pm
One playoff victory was good enough for Mike Woodson to return as New York Knicks coach - even with Phil Jackson lurking as a potential candidate. Woodson knows more will be asked of him now.
May 25, 2012 4:23 pm
Student groups in Quebec have filed a legal motion against a provincial law aimed at ending more than three months of protests over proposed tuition hikes. Lawyers for the students and other groups filed the motion Friday in a Montreal courtroom Friday.
May 25, 2012 4:22 pm
Barcelona provided Pep Guardiola with the perfect send-off by thrashing Athletic Bilbao 3-0 in the Copa del Rey final on Friday to earn the club's most successful coach a 14th trophy.
May 25, 2012 4:22 pm
The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the South Carolina Lottery's "Palmetto Cash 5" game were: 16-31-32-33-37, Power-Up: 2 (sixteen, thirty-one, thirty-two, thirty-three, thirty-seven; Power, Up: two)
May 25, 2012 4:22 pm
The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the South Carolina Lottery's "Pick 3 Evening" game were: 3-0-0 (three, zero, zero)
May 25, 2012 4:22 pm
The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the South Carolina Lottery's "Pick 4 Evening" game were: 0-2-8-9 (zero, two, eight, nine)
May 25, 2012 4:21 pm
David Beckham no longer is Major League Soccer's highest-paid player after his salary was cut nearly 40 percent in his new contract with the Los Angeles Galaxy.
May 25, 2012 4:20 pm
Prosecutors say a former Los Angeles County sheriff's sergeant has been sentenced to more than 9 years in state prison for sexually assaulting a woman and inappropriately searching two others.
May 25, 2012 4:19 pm
Hale Irwin shot his age Friday with a 5-under 66, finishing the second round of the Senior PGA Championship two shots behind leaders Roger Chapman and John Cook. Cook also had a 66 to match Chapman at 7 under after a more forgiving day at Harbor Shores. Chapman had a 67.
May 25, 2012 4:18 pm
A woman was charged Friday with killing her 18-month-old twins, named Adam and Eve, in the family home. Police said she also attempted suicide by cutting her wrists. Stacey Smalls, 41, was charged with two counts of first-degree murder, police said.
May 25, 2012 4:15 pm
A trusty who escaped from an East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office substation earlier this week has been arrested. Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Casey Rayborn Hicks said Raymond Ballard was captured Friday in Baton rouge.
May 25, 2012 4:15 pm
The stepmother of three children taken by their father to the Bahamas on a sailboat against custody orders has been extradited to Montana.
May 25, 2012 4:14 pm
Former Penn State University president Graham Spanier has filed a civil lawsuit to force the school to release emails related to the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal.
May 25, 2012 4:11 pm
Western lawmakers want to elevate the Plains bison to a status similar to that of the iconic bald eagle with legislation to declare the burly beasts America's "national mammal." Bison advocates launched a "vote bison" public relations campaign Friday to coincide with the bill.
May 25, 2012 4:09 pm
A Fall River toddler who fell from a third-floor window earlier this week has died. A spokesman for the Bristol District Attorney's office said the 26-month-old girl died Friday at Hasbro Children's Hospital in Providence, R.I. He said his office is not releasing the girl's name.
May 25, 2012 4:06 pm
The remains of an Air Force gunner who was lost during a mock nuclear attack on San Francisco in 1950 were finally laid to rest on Friday.
May 25, 2012 4:05 pm
The Muslim Brotherhood's candidate and a veteran of ousted leader Hosni Mubarak's autocratic regime will face each other in a runoff election for Egypt's president, according to first-round results Friday. The divisive showdown dismayed many Egyptians who fear either one means an end to any...
May 25, 2012 4:02 pm
Australia and South Africa will share hosting of a giant radio telescope made up of thousands of separate dishes and intended to help scientists figure out the make-up of the universe, the international consortium overseeing the project announced Friday.
May 25, 2012 4:02 pm
An Alabama appeals court on Friday denied the appeals of two death row inmates, one from Jefferson County and the other from Montgomery County.
May 25, 2012 4:01 pm
A central Florida man has been sentenced to life in prison for strangling his girlfriend at an extended-stay motel. An Orange County judge sentenced 55-year-old Carl Vance on Friday after a jury found him guilty of first-degree murder.
May 25, 2012 4:00 pm
Jackson public schools will no longer handcuff students to poles or other objects and will train staff at its alternative school on better methods of discipline.
May 25, 2012 3:55 pm
A Fayetteville man is facing murder charges in the deaths of a man who was found shot to death and his girlfriend, who was missing for more than a week until her body was found in a wooded area.
May 25, 2012 3:54 pm
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon blamed the Syrian government Friday for much of the "unacceptable levels of violence and abuses" occurring every day in violation of a U.N.-backed peace plan.
May 25, 2012 3:52 pm
Beer was hip in New York long before hipsters were into craft brews, according to a new exhibit at the New-York Historical Society that traces the history of beer all the way back to drunken Colonial times. And it's not your typical staid museum display: There's even a bar at the end of it.
May 25, 2012 3:47 pm
Activist investor Carl Icahn has taken a sizable stake in Chesapeake Energy Corp. and is calling for at least four of company's directors to be replaced. Icahn spent about $785 million to buy 50.1 million shares, or 7.6 percent, of the second-largest U.S. natural gas producer.