Kevin West

The recession hasn't meant angst and worry for Matt McCabe. Business at his music store in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., has stayed strong.

Operating out of a spare bedroom in Kailua, Hawaii, Robert Abbett normally keeps his 200-disc CD changer loaded so Internet listeners worldwide can hear "Aloha 'Oe" and other Hawaiian tunes all day, all night.

Northwest Airlines has abandoned plans to conduct employee background checks that are more rigorous than those required by the federal government.

Services are planned in Atlanta Thursday as part of the National Day of Prayer.

A Forest Park teen-ager has turned himself over to authorities in connection with a convenience store shooting that left one man dead and his wife wounded.

A wildfire that charred 36,000 acres of dry grass and oak brush in southern Arizona was close to being fully contained, firefighters said.

Almost as soon as they were out of work, employees of Marubeni Denim had new jobs. And they didn't have to go far to get them.

Third baseman Brian Buscher's diving double-play with the bases loaded helped preserve South Carolina's 5-4 victory over Wofford on Wednesday night.

Tom Collen knows the Vanderbilt Commodores have been very successful playing basketball their own way. He doesn't plan any major changes just because he is the new coach.

The DeKalb County school system canceled a high school visit by a Japanese peace delegation whose members believe the United States might use nuclear weapons again.