WASHINGTON (AP) - Productivity dropped this spring for the first time in more than a year, a sign that companies may need to hire more workers in the near future. The Labor Departm..

WASHINGTON (AP) - With the 2010 census nearly finished, the government said Tuesday it will save $1.6 billion in the cost of the U.S. population count because of strong public resp..

WASHINGTON (AP) - More worried about the strength of the economic recovery, the Federal Reserve took a small step Tuesday to give it a boost. Wrapping up a one-day meeting, the Fed..

FORT MYERS, Fla. - AirTran adds new cities to their flight route from Southwest Florida International Airport. AirTran is going to announce their service to and from the Quad citie..

WASHINGTON (AP) - House Democrats on Tuesday pushed through a $26 billion jobs bill to protect 300,000 teachers and other nonfederal government workers from election-year layoffs. ..

More U.N. personnel will be sent to the war-ravaged Somalia after years of low staff levels in the troubled nation, a top official said on Tuesday.

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - A spokesman for the family of Ted Stevens says the former senator has died in a plane crash in Alaska. Mitch Rose tells The Associated Press that the family h..

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - A former NASA spokesman says ex-NASA chief Sean O'Keefe survived the plane crash in Alaska that killed former Sen. Ted Stevens. Glenn Mahone (Muh-HOHN') says O..

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - A Florida man seen last month in eastern Oregon is wanted on auto theft charges and is a person of interest in the disappearance of a Florida woman. The Portl..

As many as 1.3 million public sector workers are expected to go on strike across South Africa Tuesday, bringing schools, hospitals and all public services essentially to a standstill.

The public health emergency triggered by the emergence of the H1N1 virus \"should be considered over,\" an emergency committee of the World Health Organization said Tuesday.

The attorney for former Liberian President Charles Taylor accused the former agent for supermodel Naomi Campbell of lying in her testimony at an international court Tuesday.

NEW YORK (AP) - A New York City judge has granted bail for a flight attendant accused of cursing out a passenger on an airplane public-address system, grabbing some beer from the g..

PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Federal authorities are set to announce that a stretch of the Gulf of Mexico off the Florida Panhandle will be reopened for commercial and recreation..

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A woman called a hospital Tuesday and told a drug counselor she had thrown her newborn and two young children off a bridge because she could not feed them, sett..

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama is urging lawmakers to pass a bill that he says will save hundreds of thousands of teachers and other public workers from unemployment. Spe..

CEDAR CITY, Utah (AP) - A tour bus carrying Japanese sightseers from Las Vegas to a national park in Utah crashed on Interstate 15, killing three passengers and sending a dozen oth..

PLANT CITY, Fla. (AP) - The Defense Department has confirmed the death of a soldier from central Florida. Officials say 23-year-old Pfc. Paul O. Cuzzupe died earlier this month in ..

TOLEDO, Ohio - Surveillance video caught a very angry McDonalds customer in Toledo, OH attacking the employees when she couldn't order mcnuggets. 25 year old Melanie Dushane pulled..

Japan apologized once again to South Korea on Tuesday for colonizing the Korean peninsula for more than three decades in the early 1900s.