Kecia Nehring Parker's fclockwork regularity in playing the same numbers enabled lottery investigators to track her down after they took the winning ticket from a convenience store owner accused of trying to steal her jackpot

For the graveyards fortunate enough to have been annexed into Great Smoky Mountains National Park when it was created, there is hope

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Inflation spooked the nation in the early 1980s. It surged and kept rising until it topped 13 percent.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- African-Americans in the South are shunning city life for the suburbs at the highest levels in decades, rapidly integrating large metropolitan areas that were historically divided between inner-city blacks and suburban whites.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- Astronaut Scott Kelly is back home reunited with his twin astronaut brother, after a five-month space station mission that was marred by the shooting of his congresswoman sister-in-law.

EVANSTON, Ill. (AP) -- A Northwestern University journalism professor whose students are credited with helping to free more than 10 innocent men from prison - including death row - has been pulled from the class that made him famous amid allegations of ethics violations.

The National Newspaper Publishers Association this week announced that they will be leading a campaign to formally pardon the "Wilmington 10."

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House on Thursday voted to end federal funding to National Public Radio

NEW YORK (AP) -- Four New York Times journalists who were reported missing while covering the Libya conflict have been found, the newspaper said Friday.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- A Wisconsin judge issued a temporary restraining order Friday blocking the state's new and contentious collective bargaining law from taking effect, a measure that drew tens of thousands of protesters to the state Capitol and sent some Democrats fleeing to Illinois in an tempt to block a vote on it.