Sales of new homes fell in February, but a jump in prices to their highest level in eight months kept hopes alive of a recovery in the housing market.

The recession and drawn out recovery has prompted a lot of discussion about whether entitlement programs ranging from unemployment insurance to food stamps help people in need or keep people from helping themselves.

US Airways is reportedly in talks with creditors for American Airlines about a possible merger -- a deal that would reduce the number of major big national airlines to just three.

Rick Santorum picked up at least eight convention delegates by winning the Republican presidential primary in Louisiana.

Officials at drugmaker Merck & Co. say they will take more time to decide what to do about an experimental blood thinner that gave disappointing results in a second big study.

Few communities are thinking about how to plan for the growing number of baby boomers who will be moving out of the workforce and into retirement.

Former Vice President Dick Cheney is recovering after undergoing heart transplant surgery on Saturday.

NBC News reports that a psychologist who looked into a 1998 allegation against retired Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky told police then that his behavior fit the profile of a likely pedophile.

Mitt Romney's two steps forward, one flub back presidential campaign continues its tantalizing progress toward a total victory that always seems just ahead.

President Barack Obama is returning to the threat to American security that he calls the gravest of all: the specter of terrorists getting material for a nuclear bomb.

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum is taking back his comment that the country might as well re-elect President Barack Obama if Mitt Romney wins the GOP nomination.

The House voted Thursday to repeal a central provision of the 2010 health care overhaul, the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB).

Last August, Wendy Dorival got a call about setting up a local neighborhood watch. As the volunteer coordinator for the Police Department here, she gets such calls regularly, and the city already had at least 10 active watch groups.

A U.S. official says Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales will be charged with 17 counts of murder in the massacre of Afghan villagers.

Thousands of Sanford residents and protesters from around the country attended a rally for a black teen fatally shot by a neighborhood watch captain in Florida.

Coroner's officials have ruled Whitney Houston died by drowning, but heart disease and cocaine use were contributing factors.

The embattled police chief at the center of a fatal neighborhood watch shooting in Sanford, Florida temporarily stepped down Thursday, saying he had become a distraction to the investigation.

A French prosecutor says that a gunman who claimed responsibility for a radical Islam-inspired killing spree was shot in the head by police.

Most people who have sinus infections should not be treated with antibiotics because the drugs are unlikely to help, according to new guidelines from infectious disease experts.

When the dentist had to fill six cavities in her 4-year-old son’s baby teeth, Amy Wilson was shocked.

After Meghan Bach learned last year that her husband’s identity had been stolen to collect a fake tax refund, she spent perhaps 200 hours working to resolve the issue with the IRS and other agencies.

Some day we won’t have to wait until the monthly unemployment report to know what’s happening in the job market.

In an election campaign season in which issues such as birth control and gay marriage have made headlines, a growing number of Americans think political leaders are talking too much religion, according to a new national survey.

The Army inspector general is conducting a system-wide review of mental health facilities to determine whether psychiatrists overturned diagnoses of post-traumatic stress disorder to save money.

A statistical analysis over 36 years suggests that more domestic oil drilling is not the answer to high gasoline prices.