Reggie Johnson scored 15 points and Miami defeated Virginia Tech to follow up Sunday’s upset of No. 7 Duke with another statement game.

Convicted Florida Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein will give another round of sworn testimony about the inner workings of his $1.2 billion fraud.

Wegelin & Co., the 270-year-old Swiss bank facing criminal charges in a U.S. crackdown on firms suspected of aiding tax evasion, failed to appear at a court hearing as prosecutors called the bank a “fugitive.”

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

Stay tuned - right here! - for LIVE up-to-the-second play-by-play coverage and commentary of the pairs' short program at the 2012 Four Continents Championships. Coverage starts at 3:00 p.m. Eastern / 12:00 p...

Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney bounced back from midweek losses in three states to narrowly win Maine's caucuses on Saturday, hours after winning a straw poll of Republican conservative activists.

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...

Facing pressure to bring in more students as North Dakota's booming oil industry made it tougher to coax new high school graduates into college, Dickinson State University began looking overseas to boost its enrollment.

The White House is calling a new report on the Obama administration's controversial green energy loan program a vindication, saying that it shows the loans are less risky that either the Energy Department or Congress anticipated. Republican critics, ...

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...