Former linebacker's apparent suicide, three years after retiring, renews denunciations of football's culture of toughness and the incidence of head injuries. Junior Seau had sustained multiple concussions, friends and family say.

It was a proud moment for construction workers Monday when just after 2 p.m. they installed two 26-foot steel columns making the unfinished tower just over 1,270 feet tall — surpassing the height of the Empire State Building by 21 feet.

Nationals rookie right fielder Bryce Harper reaches to catch a fly ball in the fourth inning. / By Gary A. Vasquez,, US Presswire LOS ANGELES (USA TODAY) — Wearing shorts, flip-flops and a Washington Nationals cap pressed down over his Mohawk haircut, baseball's latest phenom comes out of the dugout and greets several family members after the game, exchanging one hug after another.

In one of late night host Jimmy Fallon's signature bits Tuesday night, "Slow-Jammin' the News," President Obama urged Republicans in Congress to vote to keep interest rates on student loans from doubling on July 1.

The estranged wife of former football star Deion Sanders was released from custody Tuesday in suburban Dallas and said she hasn't been given a "fair shake" over allegations that she attacked him.

Classically trained, he portrayed the charismatic vampire Barnabas Collins on the campy daytime soap opera. He 'brought a very gothic, romantic quality' to the part, the series' creator says. Jonathan Frid, whose portrayal of charismatic vampire Barnabas Collins in the supernatural soap opera "Dark Shadows" turned the classically trained actor into a pop-culture star in the late 1960s, has died …

With all due respect to the great Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the fight for civil rights and equality truly began on a national level on April 15th, 1947—the day Jackie Roosevelt Robinson officially debuted for the Brooklyn Dodgers against the Boston Braves. While he did not record a hit on the stat sheet in terms of baseball that day, for progress with race relations, he began the move towards …

The "60 Minutes" newsman had such a fearsome reputation that it was often said that those were the most dreaded words in the English language, capable of reducing an interview subject to a shaking, …

To fans and the countless collectors who helped build painter Thomas Kinkade's commercial art empire, his idealized vision of the world usually served as a simple, soothing addition to the living room wall: a soft depiction of a churning seascape or a colorful garden or a cottage brimming with warm light.

DALLAS, April 3 (UPI) — Tornadoes tossed tractor-trailers wildly through the air like toys while smashing homes and other buildings in the Dallas/Fort Worth area Tuesday.