Ken Stanford

A tail section from the AirAsia plane that crashed into the Java Sea late last month, killing all 162 people on board, became the first major wreckage lifted off the ocean floor Saturday, but the all-important black boxes were not found inside.

The Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) Friday announced plans for routine road maintenance work next week in northeast Georgia.

Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas took their stands against same-sex marriage Friday before a federal appellate court with a powerful legacy of pushing Deep South conservatives out of their comfort zones on civil rights.

Stocks are ending lower after investors were discouraged by weak U.S. wage growth and another drop in the price of oil.

President Barack Obama on Friday proposed to bring the cost of two years of community college "down to zero" for all Americans, an ambitious nationwide plan based on a popular Tennessee program signed into law by that state's Republican governor.

In a double blow, the newly empowered Republican-led Congress and the Nebraska Supreme Court on Friday undercut President Barack Obama's opposition to the long Keystone XL oil pipeline.

Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal paid his daughter-in-law's consulting firm about $607,000 in the final stretch of the 2014 gubernatorial election, according to a fundraising report submitted to state ethics officials Thursday.

In the midst of a worrisome flu season, health officials are pushing doctors to prescribe antiviral medicines.

Two al-Qaida-linked brothers suspected in the Charlie Hebdo massacre came out of their hideaway with guns blazing Friday and were killed in a clash with security forces, French police said. Moments later, another hostage-taker in Paris was killed in a separate clash, along with three of his hostages.