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Obama banks on Bill Clinton to clinch close states
Republican Mitt Romney has millionaire backers, a huge staff and years of campaign experience, which may be enough to win the White House.
Bobcats snap losing streak at 23 games
The Charlotte Bobcats figured they'd set one dubious NBA record last season. They didn't need want start this season off by setting another.
Bobcats snap 23-game slide, beat Pacers 90-89
The agony is over for Michael Jordan and the Charlotte Bobcats. Kemba Walker scored a career-high 30 points in Mike Dunlap's coaching debut and the ...
Coast Guard base preps recruits for daring rescues
At a new Coast Guard training facility here, rescue swimmers jump from a 12-foot tower into a wave pool as large fans blow 70 mph wind at them.
Coast Guard probing cause of tall ship's sinking
The Coast Guard has ordered a formal investigation into the sinking of a famous tall ship off the coast of North Carolina during Hurricane Sandy.
Tired of dark, Sandy victims head to loved ones
Jill Meltz lives in an Upper West Side high-rise — just a one-bedroom, but far from the havoc wreaked by Superstorm Sandy in lower Manhattan. And she ...
Jordan: I'm committed to Bobcats for long haul
Michael Jordan could no longer hide his frustration midway through the Bobcats' dismal season last year. Not wanting anyone to see how angry he was, ...
Mood of the Nation: Struggling but seeking no help
On the eve of the 2012 elections, The Associated Press interviewed dozens of Americans to try to gauge the economic mood of the nation. People were ...
Sandy leaves death, damp and darkness in wake
As Superstorm Sandy marched slowly inland, millions along the East Coast awoke Tuesday without power or mass transit, with huge swaths of the nation's ...
1 dead, captain missing after Sandy claims ship
When the Bounty set sail last week, the captain running the ship made famous in Hollywood adventure films believed he could navigate around Hurricane ...
Superstorm Sandy causes flooding in New York City
Superstorm Sandy slammed into the New Jersey coastline with 80 mph winds Monday night and hurled an unprecedented 13-foot surge of seawater at New ...
Hurricane claims famous tall ship off NC coast
The final hours of the HMS Bounty were as dramatic as the Hollywood adventure films she starred in, with the crew abandoning ship in life rafts as ...
Republicans poised for gains in governor's races
Republicans are in position to extend their recent gains among governors as they compete for seats they haven't won in a quarter-century. Of the 11 ...
No high court action on voting rights law
Three years ago, the Supreme Court warned there could be constitutional problems with a landmark civil rights law that has opened voting booths to ...
An uneasy economy, and those living through it
Here was Chas Kaufmann's life before the Great Recession: $28,000 in restaurant tabs in a year, cruises, house parties with fireworks. His Mr.
Eastern US braces for dangerous superstorm
From Washington to Boston, big cities and small towns were buttoned up Monday against the onslaught of a superstorm that threatened 50 million people ...
High court weighs new look at voting rights law
Three years ago, the Supreme Court warned there could be constitutional problems with a landmark civil rights law that has opened voting booths to ...
Megastorm could wreak havoc across 800 miles of US
Tens of millions of people in the eastern third of the U.S. in the path of the unprecedented freak storm had hours Sunday to prepare for the first ...
US superstorm threat launches mass evacuations
Forget distinctions like tropical storm or hurricane. Don't get fixated on a particular track. Wherever it hits, the rare behemoth storm inexorably ...
'91 perfect storm skipper leery of Hurricane Sandy
Ray Leonard knows a thing or two about monster storms. In fact, he's the skipper of the Satori, the 32-foot sailboat that rode out THE perfect storm ...
Amid dire forecast, Sandy a hurricane again
With much of the Eastern Seaboard in the path of a rare behemoth storm, residents of the nation's most densely populated corridor contemplated whether ...