Associated Press - August 26, 2007 7:45 PM ET BILOXI, Miss. (AP) - Southern governors and insurance executives talked today about the challenges of keeping insurance coverage in coastal areas...

In The New York Times Book Review (incidentally, isn't it about time they renamed it The Liesl Schillinger Review in tribute to its most prolific contributer?), Gerald Howard has a fine time peeling the tangled seaweed off of Norman Mailer's

I want my Technicolor blue skies back," confesses Lance Mannion , nostalgic for a decade he never really knew. I'm not nostalgic for the actual 1960s. I'm nostalgic for the movie version, which I didn't get to know until long

The escalating mortgage crisis has prompted local lawmakers to call for a crackdown on unscrupulous mortgage firms.

NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Musicians marched a silent "second line" through the French Quarter on Sunday to protest the state of New Orleans' famed music scene nearly two years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city.

DALLAS - The nearly 18-hour search for a missing 8-year-old boy in Dallas ended Sunday after authorities learned the boy had been taken to Mexico. Argenis Espindola vanished just before 6 p.m. Saturday while playing cops and robbers around an

Sony's "Superbad," the comedy about three dorky high-schoolerstrying to score booze for a party, was the No. 1 movie for a secondstraight weekend

There was one winning ticket for the $314.3 million Powerball lottery prize, and it was sold in this city on the Indiana-Ohio state line, lottery officials said Sunday.

As of Sunday, Aug. 26, 2007, at least 3,728 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes seven military civilians. At least

California's emergency agencies are struggling to adapt to a surge in calls from cell phones that have overwhelmed the state's 911 system, leading to lost calls and long waits, according to a published report.

An extensive study of thousands of British military frontline veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan finds that they face escalating mental health problems, alcoholism, and family breakdowns.

For the thousands who have dealt with flooded basements and homes over the past few days, the weekend's weather has been a gift.

A self-described pedophile is leaving California after a judge ordered him to stay away permanently from places where children gather, the man told a TV station for a report that aired Sunday.

Summer vacation is almost over for thousands of students across Central Texas, who head back to class Monday morning. Get news alerts via email, RSS feed and on CBS 42 News, Cable Channel 5.

On Sunday, more than 3,000 Minnesota walkers finished the Twin Cities Breast Cancer's 3-Day Walk. Video: John Reger Reports More Health News More Minnesota News

Travis Hafner and Victor Martinez singled home runs with two out in the 11th inning and the Cleveland Indians rallied for a 5-3 ...

Scott Dixon took advantage of Dario Franchitti's late collision Sunday, winning for the fourth time this season and taking the ...

What looked like more heartache for Steve Stricker turned into the sweetest victory of his career. After going 6 years and 146 ...

Gary Russell Jr. became the only boxer from the loser's bracket to gain a spot on the U.S. Olympic team when he defeated Roberto ...

Court appearances have been scheduled for two men accused of plotting to kill the operator of a poker tour with rattlesnakes. The same man's car was firebombed the week before, as his company struggles financially.