Thursday, Sep.02, 2010 - 9:46 pm

Large and powerful Hurricane Earl prepared to take a swipe at the Eastern Seaboard Thursday as residents from North Carolina to Massachusetts scrambled to ready themselves for its arrival. Hurricane warnings and watches stretched from North Carolina to Delaware, and covered parts of Massachusetts.

Thursday, Sep.02, 2010 - 9:31 pm

Crews removed the cap from BP's ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil well late Thursday afternoon, a company spokeswoman said.

Thursday, Sep.02, 2010 - 8:15 pm

Cammie King Conlon, who played the ill-fated Bonnie Blue Butler in "Gone With the Wind," used to joke "that I peaked at age 5."

Thursday, Sep.02, 2010 - 7:49 pm

A fire on a well connected to an oil and gas production platform in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday is out and there is no indication of an oil sheen, the U.S. Coast Guard said.

Thursday, Sep.02, 2010 - 7:11 pm

Brent King says it still "takes my breath away" to talk about his daughter in the same sentence as the man who killed her.

Thursday, Sep.02, 2010 - 6:18 pm

A judge on Thursday denied a request for President Barack Obama to testify at a court martial for a U.S. Army flight surgeon who refused to deploy to Afghanistan until he saw proof that Obama was born in the United States.

Thursday, Sep.02, 2010 - 3:35 pm

Justice Department civil rights lawyers filed suit against Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona on Thursday after talks collapsed on a deal to provide federal investigators with requested documents.

Thursday, Sep.02, 2010 - 3:32 pm

The latest round of peace talks between the Israelis and Palestinians is starting off much like similar endeavors in the past, but the Obama administration hopes that this time, the outcome will be different.

Thursday, Sep.02, 2010 - 2:21 pm

The menace of Hurricane Earl comes at a bad time for any of the vacation-starved Americans who are heading to parts of the East Coast this Labor Day weekend.

Wednesday, Sep.01, 2010 - 9:50 pm

Federal agents visited Hillandale Farms and Wright County Egg, which have recalled more than half a billion eggs in the wake of the salmonella outbreak, a U.S. Food and Drug Administration spokeswoman said Wednesday.