Kevin West

Actor Danny Glover honored his mother during commencement ceremonies at Paine College, a historically black college in Augusta.

Less than six months after an anthrax scare rocked the U.S. Postal Service, mail carriers have a new form of terrorism on their hands: pipe bombs.

Telia, Sweden's largest telecommunications group, said Monday that its first-quarter net profit dropped 56 percent from the same period last year despite a slight increase in sales.

A tornado swept through a western Texas town Sunday night, killing at least four people in and leaving an unknown number of people are missing.

DaimlerChrysler AG, Hyundai Motor Co. and Mitsubishi Motors Corp. said Sunday they were forming a joint venture to develop a family of in-line four-cylinder gasoline engines.

Mississippi got four runs on three home runs in the sixth inning to beat South Carolina 4-2 in Southeastern Conference action Sunday.

Larry Dixon raced to his fifth Top Fuel victory of the season Sunday, beating Doug Herbert in the final of the Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Southern Nationals.

jULI Inkster overcame an extended layoff to win the rain-plagued Chick-fil-A Charity Championship, shooting a 6-under 66 Sunday for the 27th victory of her Hall of Fame career.

Jason Kidd has led the New Jersey Nets to a 99-to-93 win over Charlotte in game one of the Eastern Conference semifinal series.

A swamp fire sparked by lightning spread to eleven thousand acres today in the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, and another fire on the edge of the swamp grew from eleven acres to about one thousand acres.