
Nov 16 - By David Bauder, AP Television Writer
CBS News is planning an ambitious turn-of-decade look at America's position in the world that's also designed as an opening competitive shot at Diane Sawyer.

Nov 14 - By Barry Wilner, AP Football Writer
Skating to Stravinski and wearing Vera Wang, world champion Evan Lysacek embodied both athlete and artist at Skate America.

Nov 13 - By Barry Wilner, AP Football Writer
Even when she's not at her best, Kim Yu-na romps.
Nov 11 - By Associated Press
Medical supplies company Span-America Medical Systems Inc. said Wednesday its board of directors approved an 11 percent increase in the company's quarterly dividend to 10 cents.
Nov 9 - By Associated Press
Sasha Cohen's comeback has taken another setback.

Nov 8 - By JESSE WASHINGTON, AP National Writer
To 12-year-old Suzannah Pabla, piercing her nose was a way to connect with her roots in India. To Suzannah's school, it was a dress-code violation worthy of a suspension.

Nov 3 - By Doug Feinberg, AP Basketball Writer
Preseason or postseason, Maya Moore is making a habit of racking up honors.

Nov 2 - By Jim O'Connell, AP Basketball Writer
Luke Harangody should get used to being on top of lists.

Oct 20 - By Liz Sidoti, AP National Political Writer
Just a year after this one-time Confederate state helped elect a black man president, Democrats are desperately trying to hang onto the governorship.

Oct 15 - By Stevenson Jacobs, AP Business Writer
Capping a year in which he faced shareholder fury, regulatory scrutiny and was stripped of his chairman post, outgoing Bank of America Corp. CEO Ken Lewis will get no salary or bonus for 2009 under an agreement with the government's pay czar.
Oct 13 - By Associated Press
RailAmerica Inc. said its shares, which begin trading Tuesday, priced at $15 each, raising about $330 million.

Oct 11 - By Sharon Cohen, AP National Writer
They became good buddies during the war, the young American soldier and his invaluable Iraqi translator, an easygoing guy who could spot dangers in the shadows and calm jittery nerves in the streets.
Oct 11 - By Sharon Cohen, AP National Writer
When many Americans who served or worked in Iraq came home, they left behind Iraqi friends whose lives were at risk because of their U.S. connections. Some soldiers and others, frustrated with the government efforts to help the Iraqis, embarked on their own rescue missions. Here are two of their stories:

Oct 10 - By Sharon Cohen, AP National Writer
Her mansion in Iraq was bombed, her medical career and future in her beloved country dashed the day she found a white envelope on her car windshield. Inside was a single bullet. Wassan Yassin was marked for death.

Oct 10 - By Sharon Cohen, AP National Writer
On one of his first days in America, Hussein Albayati visited the Statue of Liberty.

Oct 4 - By Rachel Beck, AP Business Writer
There has never been a better time to be a consumer. America is on sale.

Oct 2 - By Nancy Armour, AP National Writer
Chicago seemed to have everything going for it.

Oct 1 - By Paul A. Eisenstein, msnbc.com - Only on msnbc.com
GM's Saturn division started out with high hopes a quarter-century ago, but nothing worked out quite as planned. The brand is being eliminated after a deal to sell it fell through.

Sep 30 - By Stevenson Jacobs, AP Business Writer
Ken Lewis' legacy as CEO of Bank of America Corp. will likely be determined by whether his successor can do what Lewis couldn't: prove that the bank's messy acquisition of Merrill Lynch & Co. was worth the money.

Sep 10 - By Allen G. Breed, AP National Writer
While some were moved to tears by the president's soaring rhetoric, others were moved not at all. Where some saw a new clarity, others saw more vagueness. And while some praised him for reaching out to Republicans, there were those who felt he was overreaching in some ways and not reaching far enough in others.
Sep 7 - By Tim Huber, AP Business Writer
The chief executive of coal mining giant Massey Energy blasted supporters of climate-change legislation and other environmental issues affecting the coal industry at a free Labor Day concert and rally in southern West Virginia.

Aug 27 - By Michael Warren, Associated Press Writer
South American presidents wrangled for hours Friday over a pending deal to expand the U.S. troop presence in Colombia, closing their meeting with a statement that foreign troops should not be allowed to threaten any of the region's nations.

Aug 27 - By Michael Warren, Associated Press Writer
Venezuela's Hugo Chavez has raised the stakes for Friday's meeting of South American presidents by threatening to break relations with Colombia over plans to give U.S. troops a 10-year lease on its bases.

Aug 17 - By Associated Press
Bank of America Corp. said Monday that credit card losses and delinquencies edged lower in July.
Aug 13 - By Associated Press
Shares of Bank of America shot up Thursday as a new executive at the bank, as well as a prominent hedge-fund manager, decided to place big bets on the company by buying up blocks of shares.