TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) – Florida Senate Democratic Leader Al Lawson has snubbed his party's nominee, Kendrick Meek, and endorsed Gov. Charlie Crist in the U.S. Senate …

ATHENS, Ga. (AP) _ State labor commissioner Mike Thurmond is trying to unseat a GOP goliath in a solidly Republican state to become the first …

BOLIVAR, Tenn. (AP) _ One of the first things Hardeman County Sheriff Delphus Hicks Jr. wanted to do after he recently turned in his badge …

WASHINGTON (AP) – A determined Republican stall campaign in the Senate has sidetracked so many of the men and women nominated by President Barack Obama …

WASHINGTON (AP) – Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan says an Islamic community center and mosque planned near the site of the World Trade Center in …

RUGBY, N.D. (AP) – One of the world's oldest crops may be finding new life after a century of obscurity.

BURLEY, Idaho (AP) _ A junior high teacher has been jailed for allegedly pretending to be a 15-year-old boy and engaging in sexually explicit online …

BAY MINETTE, Ala. (AP) _ Baldwin County deputies have arrested a Chickasaw resident on charges that she burglarized five churches in Mobile, Baldwin and Escambia …

JUPITER ISLAND, Fla. (AP) _ Fresh off his divorce, Tiger Woods has taken out a $54.5 million mortgage on his Florida waterfront estate.

WASHINGTON (AP) _ Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, the Texas Democrat who broke scholarship eligibility rules set by a black lawmakers group by awarding about $31,000 …