Kevin West

The Wilmington Waves, a class A affiliate of the Los Angeles Dodgers, are moving to Albany for the upcoming South Atlantic League season.

A large head-to-head comparison of two widely used blood pressure pills found one dramatically superior in preventing strokes and diabetes, even though they are equal at reducing hypertension.

ESPN and ESPN have added new time slots to their major league baseball coverage this season -- national cable telecasts on Monday nights and Wednesday afternoons.

John E. Robson, president and chairman of the Export-Import Bank, died Wednesday after a six-month battle with cancer. He was 71.

Contract negotiations between United Airlines and its 23,000 ramp and public-contact workers broke off Wednesday, with the union asking federal mediators to formally declare an impasse -- clearing the way for a possible strike.

There has always been a shorthand for American disaster: Three Mile Island. Oklahoma City. Pearl Harbor.

A 13-year-old female student at Sego Middle School in Augusta has been charged with bringing a gun to school.

Authorities said former Madison County, Mississippi, Chancery Clerk Steve Duncan, who resigned from numerous county jobs amid federal and state probes, was found dead in a car in Georgia.

Twenty-three sailors in the stricken Kursk nuclear submarine may have suffered through three days of agony in freezing darkness, waiting in vain for a rescue, a senior Russian admiral said Wednesday.

FedEx Corp. reported an 11 percent increase in its third quarter earnings Wednesday, largely due to growth in the company's ground delivery business.