Kevin West

Leaders of a black church group meeting in Cincinnati this week say they won't return to the city until race relations improve.

About 500 people attended a town meeting to express their displeasure with a Navy plan to convert a rural Burke County site into a training airfield.

Family members and military personnel gathered in a light rain and chilly wind Saturday to remember 21 National Guardsmen who died when a transport plane crashed near here a year ago.

Jerry Cochran gasps and tires easily, but he has shown amazing stamina in a 25-year quest to get the government to recognize a lung disease he and other sailors may have contracted on Navy ships.

Ray Miller is a big baseball fan. He also likes big baseballs.

New York firefighter Brian Dixon arrived in Augusta Friday for a VIP visit to thank him and other firefighters for their efforts on September 11.

Consumers are spending more freely, and for the first time in 18 months a key gauge of manufacturing is flashing a growth signal, fresh signs that a country bruised by recession and terrorist attacks is on the mend.

Andersen, the accounting firm at the center of the Enron debacle, agreed Friday to pay $217 million to settle three lawsuits stemming from its auditing work for the Baptist Foundation of Arizona.

The American Forest Resource Council accused the government of failing to comply with the act's requirement to review the status of threatened species every five years, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported Friday.

At least two counties - one in Pennsylvania and another in Michigan - are pursuing lawsuits against the tobacco giants, arguing that they haven't received their fair share of the $206 billion settlement.