Kevin West

It may not pass the House, but Rep. Dorothy Pelote's latest proposal should at least win her the support of pizza delivery guys and door-to-door salesmen.

Two concourses at Detroit Metropolitan Airport were evacuated Wednesday after a passenger set off a metal detector at a security checkpoint, then walked away before he could be rescreened, an airport spokesman said.

An energy company is suing accounting firm Arthur Andersen, alleging fraud and negligence in the wake of the collapse of Enron Corp.

The small southwest Georgia town of Brinson has just one full-time employee so it's understandable when something slips through the cracks.

A Boeing 737-300 jetliner made an emergency landing on a river on the main island of Java during a heavy rainstorm Wednesday, police and airline officials said.

General Motors Corp. earned $255 million or 60 cents a share in the fourth quarter of 2001, beating Wall Street expectations, the automaker reported Wednesday.

A finance official for the al-Qaida terrorist network was being questioned at the American base in Kandahar on Wednesday after he turned himself in voluntarily.

Investigators say layers of the tail section of American Airlines Flight 587 peeled away, but they do not know whether that contributed to the November crash or occurred after the tail hit the ground.

A federal appeals court ruled that a judge did not have enough information when he ruled that baggage-size frames used to weed out oversized carry-on luggage at Dulles International Airport illegally restricted competition among carriers.

A man fatally shot his wife, her parents and his stepdaughter before killing himself at a home in this wealthy Philadelphia suburb, police said.