Ken Stanford

The Standard & Poor's 500 index edged up to another record high as investors assessed third-quarter earnings news.

For 18 1/2 years as Federal Reserve chairman, he was celebrated for helping drive a robust U.S. economy. Yet in the years after he stepped down in 2006, he was engulfed by accusations that he helped cause the 2008 financial crisis - the worst since the 1930s. Now, Alan Greenspan has struck back.

Eleven years after the Supreme Court barred states from executing mentally disabled inmates, the justices said Monday they will take up a Florida case over how authorities determine who is eligible to be put to death.

A student at a Nevada middle school opened fire on campus just before the starting bell Monday, wounding two boys and killing a staff member who was trying to protect other children, Sparks police said Monday.

A shooting at a middle school in northern Nevada has left two people dead and two boys in critical condition, rattling parents, teachers and students as they showed up for the start of the school week.

The title of a Thomas Wolfe novel that was published in 1940 has worked its way into our language to mean one cannot recapture youthful memories. But I spent a recent weekend doing just that.

Democrats who gloat over Republicans' bad week in Congress might pause to recall that conservatives still own major victories from past budget showdowns. And these wins may again thwart Democrats' hopes of changing tax-and-spend policies in two-party talks beginning anew in the Capitol.

Police say two people are dead and two more are injured in a shooting at Sparks Middle School in northern Nevada Monday morning.