DEAL COSTS: NYSE Euronext on Friday said costs related to its collapsed merger with German stock market Deutsche Boerse shrank fourth-quarter net income.

A former police captain was sentenced to 10 years in prison Friday for amassing what authorities said was one of the largest and most disturbing child pornography collections they've ever seen in Connecticut, one that included images of infants and t...

Gabrielle Giffords, the recently retired congresswoman from Arizona who was shot in an assassination attempt 13 months ago, returned to Washington Friday for double honors. The Navy named a ship after her and she saw President Barack Obama sign the l...

WASHINGTON -- In an effort to win over the Republican values voters, Mitt Romney is invoking Sin City and billing himself as the only candidate “severely conservative” enough to keep such horrors from spreading.

The trustee liquidating MF Global Inc. brokerage said the firm has a shortfall of at least $1.6 billion to pay commodity customers’ claims.

Mountain Stater: "I want to make sure that the First Amendment of the Constitution is protected and no religious institution will be required to pay for contraceptives when it violates their views. I also want to make sure that women have access to c...

 AccuWeather.com reports a Pennsylvania couple trapped, of all things, a purple squirrel on Sunday.

PORTLAND, Maine - Maine's presidential caucuses come at a critical time for Mitt Romney, the one-time Republican front-runner.

Barack Obama is calling on Congress to extend a payroll tax cut for the remainder of the year as a deadline nears for Congress to act or see taxes go up for millions of working Americans.

The Obama administration supports legislation that would allow the District to spend its local funds without waiting for Congress to approve its own spending priorities, according to the office of Mayor Vincent C. Gray. Mr. Gray said Friday the pr...