Quarterback who won the 2004 Heisman Trophy is cut by the NFL team that made him the No. 10 overall pick in the 2006 draft. Off-field issues may have been a factor.

By STAFF REPORTERS Christchurch is counting the cost of the worst earthquake damage in the country since Napier was hit 1931. While only one person appears to have lost their life in the disaster, the effects on infrastructure and basic services could ...

Arienne Thompson here with a late-night note. Nearly a year after he ruined Taylor Swift's MTV Video Music Award acceptance speech, Kanye West is ready to be Mr.

Whether or not you support his Red Sox [team stats] tenure, Manny Ramirez [stats] will always be attached to the Boston baseball discussion, albeit as maybe the most confusing and debated superstar to call Fenway Park [map] home.

Concerned Afghans stood in long lines Saturday to withdraw money from the nation's largest, but troubled bank. By Ernesto Londoño, Andrew Higgins and David Nakamura KABUL -- The two ousted executives of Afghanistan's largest bank have blamed a hasty ...

LOS ANGELES -- Relying exclusively on power, the Giants belted four home runs, including Juan Uribe's go-ahead clout in the ninth inning, to escape with a 5-4 victory Saturday night over the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Dive master Rodney Miller, pilot Chaminda Senadhira and dive master Michael Suter died in the crash, along with five others. Photos / Supplied The pilot and four skydiving masters killed in a fiery plane crash in Fox Glacier yesterday had a perfect ...

Robert Schimmel, a comedian who specialized in taboo-breaking humor of the sexual and scatological variety, died on Friday at a Phoenix hospital, where he was being treated for injuries suffered in an Aug. 26 car accident.

By Josh D. Weiss, US Presswire By Glenn Guilbeau, Gannett Louisiana ATLANTA - LSU showed Tobacco Road the Southeastern Conference version of the fast break in the first half of Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game Saturday night at the Georgia Dome, ...

On Tuesday night, Michael Douglas, a well-known American movie star and film producer, revealed on David Letterman's "Late Show" that he was diagnosed with stage 4 throat cancer early this summer and has been receiving chemotherapy and radiotherapy for ...

NORMAN, Okla. -- DeMarco Murray ran for 218 yards and two touchdowns and converted a key fourth down, helping No. 7 Oklahoma survive an unexpected scare from Utah State for a 31-24 victory on Saturday night.

Literature and politics have always laid claim to Dublin's O'Connell Street, bookended by statues of James Joyce and Catholic emancipator Daniel O'Connell.

It's official: Kara DioGuardi is off American Idol. With the exit of Simon Cowell and Ellen DeGeneres, Kara's departure leaves only Randy Jackson on the judges' panel for the new season.

The skies over the White House were overcast Friday as President Obama and several prominent members of his economic team entered the Rose Garden to deliver remarks on the Labor Department's newly released August ...

Mere months after his divorce was finalized from Sandra Bullock, Jesse James and new girlfriend Kat Von D couldn't look more in love.

City fire marshals were investigating Saturday the cause of a three-alarm fire that damaged Department of Sanitation trailers on a pier by Manhattan's West Side Highway that afternoon.

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- You can learn many things by visiting a different culture. Saturday night, San Jose State visited the culture of America's top-ranked college football team, in its home ecosystem.

NEW YORK - It was a bittersweet and unlikely reunion. A nurse at a Bronx hospice went to greet her new patient last week and was stunned to find that it was her estranged father, who she hadn't seen in 41 years.