4 hours ago - By Associated Press
Hundreds of firefighters are battling a fast-growing wildfire that is threatening homes and wineries in California's Napa Valley.

10 hours ago - By Linda Stewart Ball, Associated Press Writer
Larry Hagman was reluctant to be on a new TV show called "Dallas" when he first read the script in the late 1970s, figuring there wouldn't be any money in it.

7 hours ago - By Deepti Hajela, Associated Press Writer
A family of five, including three children as young as 15 months, died in a blaze Saturday that filled an apartment with thick black smoke and kept the victims from escaping through the front door, fire officials said.
7 hours ago - By Associated Press
Evangelist Billy Graham was hospitalized Saturday after tripping and falling over one of his dogs at his North Carolina home, a hospital spokeswoman said.

12 hours ago - By Associated Press
Qwest Communications International Inc. says it has reached a tentative agreement for a four-year contract with a union representing about 20,000 employees.

16 hours ago - By Tom Krisher, AP Business Writer
General Motors Corp., Chrysler LLC and Cerberus Capital Management LP have held preliminary talks about a merger or an acquisition of Chrysler by GM, according to a person familiar with the talks.
18 hours ago - By Raquel Maria Dillon, Associated Press Writer
A homeless man died after being doused with gasoline and set on fire on a street where he had lived for many years and was a familiar face to residents of Koreatown, police and local merchants said Friday.

20 hours ago - By Linda Deutsch, AP Special Correspondent
A Japanese businessman charged with plotting the murder of his wife in Los Angeles 27 years ago hanged himself with his shirt in a downtown jail cell only hours after arriving to face trial, police said Saturday.
18 hours ago - By Associated Press
A black Columbia University teacher who reported finding a noose on her door is suing the New York City school for firing her after a plagiarism investigation.
20 hours ago - By Associated Press
A man whose dog rescued him from a house fire in Trinidad said the animal died after running back into the burning building. Trinidad & Tobago Express newspaper quoted Anderson Marcano as saying that he woke up because the dog kept barking and tugging at his pants. Marcano said he smelled the smoke and was shocked to find his house on fire.

20 hours ago - By Desiree Hunter, Associated Press Writer
Lt. Col. John Mulzac stood on the asphalt at Moton Field Friday — the same grounds where he trained decades ago to become one of the country's first black military pilots — and wept.
20 hours ago - By Ryan Kost
Pioneering Oregon winemaker David Lett, widely considered the father of Oregon's thriving pinot noir industry and a major force in winning worldwide respect for this state's wines, has died. He was 69.
21 hours ago - By John Milburn, Associated Press Writer
An atheist soldier who accused U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates and the Defense Department of violating his religious freedom dropped the lawsuit Friday, citing his plans to leave the Army next spring.
21 hours ago - By Martin Griffith, Associated Press Writer
Three federal biologists were held at gunpoint for several minutes by suspected members of a Mexican drug cartel after happening upon a large marijuana patch in a remote stretch of public land in northern Nevada, authorities said Friday.

22 hours ago - By Tim Paradis, AP Business Writer
Wall Street capped one of its worst weeks ever with a wild session Friday that saw the Dow Jones industrials gyrate within a 1,000 point range before closing with a relatively mild loss and the Nasdaq composite index actually ending with a modest advance. Investors were still agonizing over frozen credit markets, but seven days of massive losses and the possibility of further government support for the markets tempted some investors late in the session.
21 hours ago - By Ed White, Associated Press Writer
Federal prosecutors are seeking a major sentencing break for an activist who committed arson at Michigan State University, publicly acknowledging for the first time his wide-ranging undercover role in investigations of eco-terrorism.
22 hours ago - By Larry Neumeister, Associated Press Writer
The teachers' union for the nation's largest public school system accused the city on Friday of banning political campaign buttons and sued to reverse the policy, declaring that free speech rights were violated.