NYT:  The commander of military forces protecting North America has ordered a review of the costly air defenses intended to prevent another Sept. 11-style attack.

There are signs of recovery in the nation's heartland, including Elkhart, Ind., but the rebound is faint, uneven and faces many threats.

For Lawrie Covey and millions of other unemployed workers, life remains a day-to-day struggle. Instead of working on RVs in a factory, she may soon be living in one.

The Salvation Army plans to serve 10,000 free Thanksgiving dinners across New York  — meals cooked by a ritzy caterer and cleaned up by employees of one of Wall Street's most vilified financial firms.

A 5-year-old North Carolina girl was raped and killed the same day she was taken from her home, arrest warrant says.

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The  "Hannah Montana" star wasn't on board bus that ran off of a central Virginia interstate, struck an embankment and overturned.  The driver died at the scene, police said. 

The Senate ethics committee admonished Roland Burris for making "inconsistent, misleading or incomplete" statements about the circumstances surrounding his appointment, but did not recommend any punishment.

Descendants of 14 bison shipped to Santa Catalina Island in 1924 to make a Western movie have multiplied so much that a conservation group is about to give females birth control injections.

University of California Berkeley students protesting a 32 percent increase in student fees barricaded themselves Friday inside part of a campus building.

As the nation's military academies try to recruit more minorities, they aren't getting much help from members of Congress from big-city districts with large numbers of blacks, Hispanics and Asians.