Lornah Kiplagat of the Netherlands won her fifth Peachtree Road Race title Tuesday and Martin Lel of Kenya captured the men's division to lead a field of 55,000 runners, the world's largest 10-kilometer road race
Gov. Rod Blagojevich insisted Tuesday that continued findings of wrongdoing within his administration are "a good thing" because they are being made by an inspector general he appointed to help him clean up state government.
The driver of a car that plowed through a throng of speedboat racing fans and into the Ohio River appeared to have been slumped over the steering wheel before he sped into the crowd, police said.
The bills are paid, the books are closed and the final number is in: Mayor Michael Bloomberg spent $85.1 million on his re-election.
The father of Republican Senate hopeful Kathleen Troia "KT" McFarland publicly denied allegations that he beat her during her childhood — the latest twist in a series of dramatic disclosures about that have rocked the campaign of the woman hoping to unseat Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines — and pray for sunny skies. The "Frisian Nuon Solar Challenge" race for boats powered exclusively by solar panels got off to a challenging start Monday, under cloud cover and a light drizzle.
Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines — sort of. More than 20 teams from Europe and the United States are gearing up for the Nuon Solar Challenge, a contest to build and race a solar-powered boat.
Michigan's gubernatorial race between Democratic incumbent Jennifer Granholm and Republican challenger Dick DeVos is close, according to a poll released Wednesday.
It looked like Democratic Gov. Bill Richardson would coast toward re-election until Saturday when his little-known Republican opponent dropped out of the race and the GOP named a more aggressive candidate.
State Republicans hope to mobilize more GOP volunteers than ever before to help Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger win re-election, a strategy modeled on get-out-the-vote drives that helped President Bush capture swing states in 2004.
Brasil 1 won the eighth leg of the Volvo Ocean Race early Saturday, the team's best result in the 36,000-mile, seven-month race scheduled to end in mid-June in Sweden.
With support for a run eroding, Republican Bill Weld will drop out of the race for New York governor, according to two sources informed of the decision.
The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether skin color can be considered in assigning children to public schools, reopening the issue of affirmative action. The announcement puts a contentious social topic on the national landscape in an election year, and tests the conservatism of President Bush's two new justices.
Look out across the rooftops of New Orleans and you can see splashes of bright blue everywhere. Nine months after Katrina, blue tarps still cover countless damaged houses, and homeowners are racing to fix their roofs before the summer rains and the hurricane season that began Thursday bring more misery.
A state-appointed commission is urging North Carolina to provide reparations for the 1898 racial violence that sparked an exodus of more than 2,000 black residents from Wilmington.
The crew ABN AMRO TWO has decided to complete the Volvo Ocean Race despite the death of a teammate, their skipper said Wednesday.
With the Democratic Party designation in hand and a fresh television ad on the air, Eliot Spitzer is taking his campaign for governor on the road.
Democratic Gov. Kathleen Sebelius announced Wednesday that the former state Republican party chairman, who switched his affiliation to Democrat only a day earlier, will be her next running mate.
New York's Democratic Party on Tuesday designated Attorney General Eliot Spitzer as its candidate for governor, and the man who forced reforms of Wall Street and corporate America promised to reform state government's ethics, taxes and spending.
Water crashed onto the deck of the ABN AMRO TWO as the winds kicked up and the seas got rough.
The body of crewman Hans Horrevoets was returned to the Netherlands on Monday, four days after he was swept overboard the ABN AMRO TWO during Leg 7 of the Volvo Ocean Race.
Dutch yacht ABN AMRO ONE won the seventh leg of the Volvo Ocean Race on Saturday, two days after the death of a Dutch sailor on a sister yacht.
A parks department employee accused of falsifying time sheets spent more than half his time doing political work for Nassau County executive Tom Suozzi's nascent gubernatorial campaign, the employee's attorney said.
A Dutch crewman in the Volvo Ocean Race died early Thursday after being swept overboard in heavy Atlantic seas, race organizers said.
Seven yachts set off Thursday for a trip from New York to England on the next leg of an around-the-world race that launched six months ago.