Coast Guard Tells BP to Speed Up Containment Pace

The federal government has given BP until the end of the weekend to find ways to speed up efforts to contain huge amounts of oil gushing from a ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico, according to a letter released Saturday, as large globs of brown crude coated Alabama's white sand beaches.

Cops call King's wife's OD an 'attempted suicide'

A police report has surfaced suggesting Southwick's drug overdose was not accidental.

Gulf oil leak estimate soaring

NEW YORK - A government panel roughly doubled its estimate yesterday of the amount of oil that had gushed for weeks from the out-of-control BP well...

Obama to Meet BP Chairman

President Barack Obama and senior administration officials will meet BP Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg next Wednesday..

Second Hand Smoke Danger to Mental Health

Other people's smoke is bad for your lungs and bad for your heart, and new research suggests it could be bad for your mental health, too.

Cross Used To Beat Elderly Woman To Death In Church...

Cross County Sheriff J.R. Smith said possibly two "people of interest" fled the area after the church pastor discovered Lillian Wilson's lifeless body Sunday.

Citizenship Now Denied: Egyptian Men Married to Israeli Women

The Egyptian Supreme Court has affirmed an earlier verdict to revoke the citizenship of Egyptian men married to Israeli women...