Kevin West

Jurors began deliberating Thursday in the murder for hire trial of Doctor Carl Drury, who told them allegations he wanted a hit man to kill his wife were ``a vicious lie. I love my wife. I loved her then. I love her now.''

John Demjanjuk's citizenship was revoked for the second time Thursday by a federal judge who agreed with government allegations that he was a Nazi death camp guard during World War II.

Gold Kist Inc., the nation's second
largest chicken processor, today announced that it had discontinued its rare use of fluoroquinolone antibiotics in the production of broiler chickens.

Retailer J.C. Penney Co. said Thursday that it earned $95 million in the fourth quarter, a turnaround from huge losses a year ago despite flat sales.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says women with diabetes are twice as likely to be poor or undereducated than women without the blood-sugar disease.

Signaling that baseball was prepared to back off its attempt to fold the Twins, owner Carl Pohlad said Wednesday he intended to sell the team and commissioner Bud Selig gave the plan his blessing.

The U.S. trade deficit in 2001 showed the first improvement in six years as the recession cut into America's appetite for foreign goods.

Colombian warplanes began bombing a vast rebel territory Thursday and amassing 13,000 troops nearby, after the president canceled peace talks and decided to retake the region from leftist guerrillas.

Just a few feet from second base in a stadium that bares his name, Mississippi State coach Ron Polk whips baseballs at his first basemen, some wide right, some wide left, some one-hoppers.

Mississippi is revising its biography of football coach David Cutcliffe to make clear he did not attend Alabama on an athletic scholarship.