Ken Stanford

The lament from Atlanta to New Orleans to north Florida was the same: It's much too cold for this time of year.

Jason Carter took an optimistic view of his 8-point loss to incumbent Gov. Nathan Deal during an interview with The Associated Press on Tuesday in Atlanta, two weeks after the Nov. 4 election that delivered a blow to Georgia Democrats' hopes of getting power back in a state they once dominated.

U.S. stock indexes closed at record highs again Tuesday as investors were encouraged by a positive outlook from homebuilders and better news from Japan and Germany.

Several feet of lake-effect snow paralyzed the Buffalo area Tuesday, forcing state troopers to deliver blankets and other supplies to motorists stranded on the New York State Thruway and adding an ominous note to a wintry season that's already snarling travel and numbing fingers from the Midwest to the Carolinas.

The cold is back, and with it, rising heating bills.

U.S. homebuilders' confidence rebounded in November as both sales expectations and buyer traffic improved.

Adrian Peterson's future with the Minnesota Vikings dimmed further Tuesday, with the NFL suspending the star running back without pay for at least the rest of the season.

The Navy secretary has spent more than a full year of his five-year tenure on overseas travel, racking up more than 930,000 miles on trips that cost taxpayers more than $4.7 million.

The government has the power to hold drone operators accountable when they operate the remote-control aircraft recklessly, a federal safety board ruled Tuesday in a setback to small drone operators chafing under Federal Aviation Administration restrictions.

Hall County Central Communications/E9-1-1 will conduct an audible test of the severe weather warning system Wednesday about 10:00 a.m. and the sirens will sound for about three minutes.