Shareholders of American Trans Air's parent company voted Monday to change the corporation's name from Amtran Inc. to ATA Holdings Corp. to avoid confusion with a similarly named airline.
Americans are likely to see a greater choice for local-phone service after a Supreme Court ruling that the government's method of bringing competition to the telephone market has been reasonable.
A 9-year-old blind and deaf girl who died after tumbling from a third-floor apartment window often was left home alone and recently fell down the stairs when she was not supervised.
Federal agencies were investigating the origin of a mailbox package that exploded while being defused by a bomb squad after a mail carrier became alarmed by an attached note.
Firefighters aided by brush clearance and fire-resistant roofs managed to contain a 1,100-acre brush fire that had closed in on dozens of upscale Southern California homes.
A mostly white jury will hear the murder trial of a former Ku Klux Klansman accused of participating in a church bombing that killed four black girls in 1963.
An earthquake that was felt for 200 miles shook the San Francisco Bay area, strong enough to burst water pipes and rattle store shelves but not enough to distract hockey or baseball players.
Former Brave Andres Galarraga is scheduled to rejoin the Montreal Expos today in San Diego after tests showed that the back pain he's been feeling is not a reoccurrence of cancer.
