Kevin West

A mile-long freight train struck a commuter train head-on south of Los Angeles, killing one person and injuring 265, officials said.

An Atlanta law firm has sued the city over $691,000 in legal fees from a class-action lawsuit brought by black police officers.

Bill Brown, a veteran journalist who was executive editor when the Alabama Journal won a Pulitzer Prize in 1988, has retired after a 40-year career.

A Little League coach has been barred from the field indefinitely for attacking two umpires after they threw out a couple of unsafe bats.

A mob armed with bats and pipes attacked 10 U.S. Navy Marines, leaving one with a cranial fracture and others with injuries from broken bones to minor scrapes.

One commuter bus crashed into another Tuesday morning, injuring at least 40 people, an NJ Transit spokesman said.

Lawyers for dissident Hewlett-Packard Co. shareholder Walter Hewlett cited internal company memos in court Tuesday as evidence that HP executives deceived investors about the financial prospects of the proposed $19 billion purchase of rival Compaq Compute

German police have arrested 11 members of an extremist Islamic group on suspicion of supporting a jihad, or holy war, prosecutors said Tuesday.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is planning to lease property adjacent to five of its stores in the Houston area to a Connecticut-based car sales company for six months, Wal-Mart spokesman Jay Allen said Tuesday.

Two men arrested for a deadly series of bombings in the southern Philippines claimed it was part of a ``destabilization'' campaign that includes targets in the capital, police said Tuesday.