WASHINGTON (AP) -- Unemployment rates fell last month in most U.S. states, including in some hit hardest during the recession.
MIAMI (AP) -- The U.S. Justice Department could bring a hate crime charge against the shooter in the killing of black Florida teenager Trayvon Martin if there is sufficient evidence the slaying was motivated by racial bias and not simply a fight that spiraled out of control, legal experts and former prosecutors say.
NEW YORK (AP) -- The recession and its hangover may have turned bill-paying habits upside down. Cash-strapped Americans are paying off their car loans before they pay credit card bills and make mortgage payments, a study finds.
MIAMI (AP) -- The funeral director who oversaw slain Florida teenager Trayvon Martin's burial says he saw no signs of a fight on the body.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- A nightclub in Alabama's capital city has come up with a unique theme night involving food support for needy families.
As a club that prides itself on tradition, Augusta National again is in the middle of a membership debate it thought it was done with nearly a decade ago.
HARRISON, Ark. (AP) -- When a black man supposedly broke into a white man's home in 1905, a mob ran most black people out of town - and instantly gave this community a lasting reputation as being too dangerous for minorities.
SANFORD, Fla. (AP) -- The fatal shooting of a black teenager by a neighborhood watch captain who then went free has led to nationwide protests calling for the shooter's arrest.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans are ready to ram through the House an election-year, $3.5 trillion budget that showcases their deficit-cutting plan for revamping Medicare and slicing everything from food stamps to transportation while rejecting President Barack Obama's call to raise taxes on the rich.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- When Roy James needed money to buy equipment and dig an irrigation well for his father's Mississippi farm, he applied for a loan from the U.S. Department of Agriculture - but was turned down.