WASHINGTON (AP) âÄî In a vote that shook the government, Wall Street and markets around the world, the House on Monday defeated a $700 billion emergency rescue for the nationâÄôs financial...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) âÄî A former teacher who fled to Mexico with a 13-year-old student so she could have sex with him was sentenced Monday to six years in federal prison. Kelsey Peterson, 26, had...

The Big Ten Network turned to presidential campaign coverage last week, but the price tag was too high for the University to participate. The network collaborated with professors from across the Big Ten...

Two studies released this year revealed that more incoming college students need to take remedial coursework âÄî but numbers at the University are down. âÄúDiploma to Nowhere,âÄù...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) _ A woman whose dogs viciously attacked and killed her neighbor in the hallway of their apartment building seven years ago was sentenced Monday to 15 years to life in prison. Marjorie...

KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) _ A helicopter crashed into the roof of a house early Sunday, killing two people in the aircraft, but five people in the house were uninjured, police reported. The helicopter crashed...

WASHINGTON (AP) âÄî Eager to show that he feels people's pain, President Bush told the country Thursday his administration is working feverishly to calm turmoil in the financial markets. With reports...

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) _ The mother of a Marine who witnesses say covered a grenade with his body to save comrades in Iraq plans to appeal to Congress to award her son the nation's highest military...

ESPANOLA, N.M. (AP) âÄî Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama promised new ideas Thursday to calm America's financial meltdown and help struggling families avoid mortgage foreclosure, saying...

LACKAWANNA, N.Y. (AP) _ Yemeni-Americans in this upstate New York city have seen terrorism from two sides. On Wednesday, one of their own was a victim of global violence, killed with her new husband when...