Police arrested the country's most wanted man while tracking down the alleged kidnappers of a prominent businessman, officials said Thursday.

An Oakland, Calif., environmental group has announced that Chrysler LLC and three auto-parts makers have agreed to end their use of lead wheel weights in the state.

A man accused of lavishly spending millions of dollars of his investors' money has been tentatively ordered to repay $22 million in the alleged swindle.

A hacker broke into a Homeland Security Department telephone system over the weekend and racked up about $12,000 in calls to the Middle East and Asia.

Christie's says it will auction an Aboriginal boomerang collected by the explorer Capt. James Cook.

Matt Damon's wife Luciana gave birth to a baby girl Wednesday, his spokeswoman said. The baby's name is Gia Zavala Damon, spokeswoman Jennifer Allen told The Associated Press, adding: 'Everyone is great and she is a healthy, beautiful baby girl.'

If the new man looking for love on ABC's 'The Bachelor' looks familiar, that's because he was rejected last season on 'The Bachelorette.'

Jail officials says a bondsman has posted bail for the mother of a missing Florida toddler.

A judge who won a $2 million libel award from the Boston Herald, then sent threatening letters to its publisher, will step down from the bench, a court said Wednesday.

Some furniture inspected by customs agents at the Arizona-Mexico border gives new meaning to the term 'entertainment centers' — they were allegedly used to hide $2.7 million worth of marijuana.

A federal appeals court panel ruled Wednesday in favor of a Tennessee school system that banned the Confederate battle flag because of concerns the symbol could inflame racial tensions at a high school.

Nearly four months after federal agents and campus police stormed San Diego State University's Fraternity Row in one of the nation's largest campus drug busts, fewer than half of those arrested face charges as the school tries to repair its image ahead of the upcoming academic year.

Forty seasons after making his unscheduled Metropolitan Opera debut as Maurizio in Cilea's 'Adriana Lecouvreur,' Placido Domingo is returning to the role.

A stretch of oceanside bluff below the Torrey Pines Golf Course collapsed and killed a man Wednesday, authorities said.

Connecticut has officially released Elena Delle Donne from her basketball scholarship, a move that could allow the former top-rated recruit to play at Delaware.

Top Sunni politicians on Wednesday accused Iraq's Shiite-dominated security forces of carrying out political arrests, and warned that this could push Iraq into another round of sectarian fighting.

Republican presidential candidate John McCain chided his Democratic rival on Wednesday for getting 'a little testy' as Barack Obama sharpened his tone amid a tightening White House race.

Republican presidential candidate John McCain chided his Democratic rival on Wednesday for getting 'a little testy' as Barack Obama sharpened his tone amid a tightening White House race.

Wheat prices jumped above $9 a bushel Wednesday on expectations that warm, dry weather in Argentina and Australia will hurt crops and tighten world supplies.

California, the nation's leader in heat-related deaths among farmworkers, sought to turn that trend around three years ago with new laws aimed at ensuring people toiling in sweltering fields had such basics as a water break and an umbrella for shade. But if anything, the problem has gotten worse.