Derrick Rose, who led his hometown Bulls to the playoffs and restored hope to a franchise in disarray, was the runaway pick as the NBA's rookie of the year. Rose became the third Bulls player to win the award Wednesday, joining Michael Jordan and Elton Brand. Complete Story...
It's a question Dwight Howard will never forget.
Bank of New York Mellon Corp. said Tuesday that its first-quarter profit dropped an unexpectedly steep 57 percent and that it was slashing its dividend in hopes of repaying a government investment.
Like his first year in Cleveland, LeBron James' second NBA season ended without a trip to the playoffs. The miss was inexcusable to Cavaliers rookie owner Dan Gilbert, who set out an immediate coaching search so it wouldn't happen again.
President Barack Obama's chief of staff is urging Republicans to step up and offer their own on ideas on how to overhaul health care and energy policy.
"State of Play" looks like a provocative, '70s-style political thriller, and it's the murder of a young woman — a rising congressman's mistress — that drives the narrative.
Wall Street expects businesses slashed their inventories for a sixth consecutive month in February as the recession dragged on.
When great-grandma took a nip of the elderberry wine "for medicinal purposes," she was following a tradition that goes back thousands of years.
Shipping your oil across the Gulf of Aden? Don't forget your piracy insurance.
The pirate standoff with the U.S. Navy has burned Somalia into the West's consciousness as a base for lawlessness and terror, but the hostage crisis illuminates a potentially dangerous picture confronting a far greater area.
Russell Dunham, an Illinois man who was awarded the Medal of Honor after killing nine German soldiers and taking two others captive while wounded during World War II, has died. He was 89.
A 2-ton bronze replica of the Statue of Liberty was carefully hoisted from its permanent home in a Parisian park Monday for a journey through Paris to an exhibit on the city's outskirts.
In a season in which the Connecticut women's basketball team has run through its opponents, it's no surprise the Huskies won both major individual awards.
Geno Auriemma, two wins shy of leading Connecticut to its third unbeaten season, is The Associated Press' college basketball coach of the year for the sixth time.
In a season when the Big East dominated the polls and the NCAA tournament, the Big 12 won both major individual awards.
Bill Self, who led Kansas to the national championship last year and had the Jayhawks back in the title hunt this season, is The Associated Press' college basketball coach of the year.
The Metropolitan Opera's production of "The Elixir of Love" was notable for one absence — of star tenor Rolando Villazon.
Tim O'Neal watched carefully, head down, as his pitch from just off the green rolled perfectly into the cup on the ninth green at Tradition National Golf Course last month.
A minute of silence will be held before international soccer matches Tuesday and Wednesday after 19 fans died in a stadium stampede in the Ivory Coast.
Afghanistan. The banking crisis. Health care. The ailing economy.
Ever wonder how that bill was calculated if you had to pay to see a doctor outside your insurance network?
"The Education of Charlie Banks" marks the surprisingly sensitive directing debut of Fred Durst, the lead singer of Limp Bizkit, whose hits include the oh-so-catchy "Break Stuff."
Analysts saw a glimmer of a silver lining Tuesday in Teradyne Inc.'s slashed forecast for the current quarter, detecting signs that the market for semiconductor testing equipment may be hitting a bottom.
First there was the economy rescue of 2008 — we know how well that worked out. Then a housing rescue that didn't stop foreclosures, a controversial $700 billion Wall Street rescue with mixed results, and of course the auto bailout that's left the fate of Detroit's Big Three in limbo.
Calling Miss Manners.