Kevin West

Jerry Tarkanian is retiring from college basketball, ending a coaching career that spanned four decades and mixed success with scandal, a source close to the coach told The Associated Press.

A student tossed a grenade outside the U.S. Embassy in San'a on Friday, a day after Vice President Dick Cheney visited Yemen.

An explosion was heard near the U.S. Embassy in San'a on Friday, Yemeni police said. A U.S. official said two concussion grenades were hurled at an embassy wall and that no one was injured.

Four textile-state governors are expected at a meeting next week to discuss problems in the industry.

Industrial production in February took the largest advance in more than a year and a half, the most dramatic sign yet that the battered manufacturing sector is on the road to recovery.

An injunction that would attempt to block Arkansas from searching for a new coach is an option if Nolan Richardson is not restored as basketball coach, Richardson's lawyer said Thursday.

A pilot was killed when his small courier plane struck a 1,800-foot television transmission tower Thursday, toppling the structure and scattering debris.

Calling the Andrea Yates they know a wonderful person, tearful relatives begged a jury not to impose the death sentence for drowning her five children.

Riverside Military Academy won eight events and finished second in 10 others to dominate a trcak and field meet with North Hall and White County Thursday.

James Earl Patterson apologized for ``the evil I brought into this world'' before becoming the first person in the nation executed based on a DNA ``cold hit.''