On buttons, posters and Web sites, the image was everywhere during last year's presidential campaign: a pensive Barack Obama looking upward, as if to the future, splashed in a Warholesque red, white and blue and underlined with the caption HOPE. ...more

February 5, 2009

Federal agents on Wednesday searched the home of a man linked to the fatal 1982 Tylenol poisonings in Illinois and the FBI in Chicago said authorities are reviewing evidence in the deaths, which caused a nationwide scare and led to dramatic changes in the way food and medical products are packaged. ...more

February 5, 2009

Fossils from northeastern Colombia reveal the biggest snake ever discovered: a behemoth that stretched 42 to 45 feet long, reaching more than 2,500 pounds. Titanoboa cerrejonensis, which acted like an anaconda, breaks the snake length record by about 11 feet, said paleontologist Jason Head of the University of Toronto Missisauga. ...more

February 5, 2009

On the rockiest day of his young administration, President Barack Obama did what surely made him happy for a while. He left. ...more

February 4, 2009

U.S. Rep. Adam Putnam says he will give up his seat in Congress to become a candidate for state agriculture commissioner. ...more

February 1, 2009

NCAA President Myles Brand has made it a priority throughout his nearly six-year tenure: Schools have to help student-athletes in the classroom. ...more

February 1, 2009

From the moment he arrived on campus, 320-pound tackle Michael Oher seemed destined to be a star on Mississippi's football team and a failure in its classrooms. ...more

February 1, 2009

If you felt financially squeezed in the last few months of 2008, you weren't the only one. On Friday, the Commerce Department announced that the economy shrank at a 3.8 percent pace in the final quarter, the worst showing in a quarter-century. ...more

January 31, 2009

The interim leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, seen as a modernizer who could seek a historic reconciliation with the Vatican and more autonomy from the state, was overwhelmingly elected patriarch Tuesday. ...more

January 28, 2009

A task force looking to return Citizens Property Insurance Corporation to its original status as an insurance company of last resort recommended Thursday that lawmakers increase homeowner rates by as much as 20 percent. ...more

January 22, 2009