Kevin West

Iraq said on Sunday it was prepared to receive a U.S. delegation to discuss the fate of an American pilot shot down over Iraq in 1991 during the Gulf War.

A federal appeals court in Atlanta has overturned the convictions of two former executives of Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA who were accused of defrauding government health care programs at a company-owned hospital in western Florida.

A bomb exploded Sunday in a van in one of Brooklyn's most populated Jewish neighborhoods, severing a man's leg, but police ruled out terrorism.

A man who had holed up in his remote home for 2 1/2 years after a bank foreclosed on it, defying authorities who worried about a possible violent confrontation, was arrested early Sunday on one of his rare excursions off the property.

Truett-McConnell freshman Jodie Briggs, a 2001 graduate of Gainesville's Johnson High, is the 2002 NRA Women's Air Pistol Champion and Women's Aggregate Pistol Champ as well.

Kurt Busch gambled on pit strategy and bumped Jimmy Spencer out of his way Sunday to win the first race of his career in an event that ended with tempers flaring and another pit road confrontation at Bristol Motor Speedway.

The head of the College Board is proposing major changes to the SAT I in an apparent effort to hold on to its biggest client, the University of California.

Police found a burned body inside the car of an eastern Kentucky sheriff's candidate who had once served time in prison for conspiracy to commit murder and had been reported missing earlier in the day.

The remains of 10 people, including two firefighters, were recovered from the debris of the World Trade Center on Saturday. The discoveries followed the overnight removal of six other victims, four of them firefighters.

Wind-whipped grass fires pushed into affluent residential areas in the pine-studded southern New Mexico mountains Saturday, burning at least 30 homes and forcing more than 1,300 residents to evacuate.