It's long been an unwritten rule of political campaigns: The candidate's spouse is a cheerleader and a surrogate, but not an attacker. Yet there was Cindy McCain this month, introducing her husband at a Pennsylvania rally with an angry reference to Barack Obama and his vote against a bill funding the troops in Iraq.
After missing all of last season because of knee surgery, Portland Trail Blazers center Greg Oden injured his foot in his first regular-season NBA game and will be sidelined two to four weeks.
Petra Davis still doesn’t remember much about the bear attack that nearly took her life, which is probably a good thing. What she does know is that she’s not keen on taking any more bike rides at night.
Rep. Charlie Dent's tour of a conveyor belt factory epitomizes the dilemma the Pennsylvania Republican faces as he talks to voters back home after supporting the Wall Street bailout.
A week ago, it totaled just three pages — the White House's request for $700 billion to rescue tottering financial institutions by buying their devalued mortgage-related assets.
The first wheelchair-accessible section of the Appalachian Trail in Vermont, a 900-foot boardwalk and path through flood plain and forest, opened to the public Saturday after three years of construction.
This isn't just any wheelchair-accessible path — it's part of the Appalachian Trail.
A wildfire that damaged or destroyed nearly 20 homes in Idaho last month also revealed remnants of the Oregon Trail.
The Appalachian Trail is getting something new along its 2,175-mile route from Georgia to Maine — a highway underpass.
St. Paul police followed a trail of Cheetos in order to nab three teenagers suspected of burglarizing a vending machine. Officers were called to the Arlington Recreation Center on July 29, where they found a vending machine's glass had been broken with a chair.
The 600-mile route taken by the armies of Gen. George Washington and his French partner in the climactic campaign of the Revolutionary War would become a national historic trail under legislation passed by the House Thursday.
President Bush will help Republican John McCain raise money later this month in Arizona. Beyond that, the White House isn't saying how much the two will campaign together.
There’s no question that America’s great outdoors is a paradise for pets. From flower-carpeted mountain sides to spectacular waterfalls and panoramic vistas — there are so many wonderful pet-friendly hiking trails to discover.
Jet-setters retreating to this mountain resort town may no longer hear GOP presidential candidate John McCain's recorded voice welcoming them to town, at least for a while.
Alabama has all sorts of tourist trails — there's one for civil rights, another for birds and yet another for old churches. The newest one was introduced Tuesday to promote the state's wineries, but Baptists aren't joining in the toast.
Parks officials hoping to promote public access to one of the city's least-used recreational zones — its waterways — have created its first formal network of kayak and canoe launches.
New York and Massachusetts are launching an effort to conserve dozens of roadside monuments marking the route taken by patriots who transported the artillery that forced the British from Boston during the Revolutionary War.
Brandon Roy continues to haunt the Minnesota Timberwolves and keep Portland's dimming playoff hopes alive.
Eliot Spitzer knew how to catch bad guys by following the money. As attorney general, he once broke up a call-girl ring and locked up 18 people on corruption, money-laundering and prostitution charges. He ruthlessly investigated the pay packages of Wall Street executives and was so familiar with shady financial maneuvers that he rose to become the top racketeering prosecutor in Manhattan.
Yao Ming had 25 points and seven rebounds as the Houston Rockets beat the Portland Trail Blazers 95-83 on Monday night for their seventh straight win.
Police said they arrested a man who acknowledged digging holes on a park bike trail as payback for nearly being run down by a cyclist.
Buoyed by the promise of federal matching funds, Democrat John Edwards' presidential campaign plans to beef up the size of its Nevada staff by next month, officials told The Associated Press on Thursday.
Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama on Friday cast Washington's treatment of the nation's rural areas as a case of big business interests prevailing over the little farmer.
Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani said he opposes creation of a Palestinian state at this time and would take a tough stand with Iran, including destroying its nuclear infrastructure "should all else fail."
The wife of Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama on Sunday admonished those who question her biracial husband's credentials as a black man, calling the issue "nonsense."