Ken Stanford

Think your teen would never text while driving? More than half of high school seniors admitted in a government survey that they've done just that.

A Kansas businessman, his wife and their four children were killed when their small plane crashed into a swampy area of central Florida on Thursday, and word quickly spread to their hometown where the family was known for their charitable work and always having a house full of neighborhood kids.

Gunfire erupted in a church parking lot as a funeral wrapped up Thursday in an Atlanta suburb, leaving two people dead and another two wounded.

Attorney General Eric Holder clashed Thursday with congressional Republicans seeking more information about a flawed gun-trafficking investigation in Arizona.

They are trying to be hopeful, but the Democratic Party's most passionate voters are struggling to hide their frustration with President Barack Obama.

A retired Gainesville building contractor, who was also long active in Civitan International, died Thursday.

Slumping job growth has alarmed some economists who fear the U.S. economy is in trouble.

Ben Bernanke doesn't appear to be one of them.

Mitt Romney outraised President Barack Obama in May, the first time the Republican presidential challenger has jumped ahead of Obama and his prodigious fundraising apparatus. The numbers illustrate how Romney and the Republican Party have jelled as a force after a protracted GOP primary.

Suicides among active-duty U.S. troops are surging, averaging nearly one per day this year.

Call it spring's fever. Federal records show the U.S. just finished its hottest spring on record.