As the countdown ticks on to tonight's record Powerball drawing, the
jackpot has swollen to $600 million, largely due to California's
participation in the game, lottery officials said....
Eight explorers-turned-contestants risk their lives in a test of
survival, living off the land for two months, while enduring 3,000 miles
of Alaska's wildest terrain....
Texas Right to Life is working overtime to defeat a measure
supporters say would improve state laws governing end-of-life medical
decisions. With time running out, the fight over the legislation...
"A clown is unafraid to go out there and do anything."
At the Clown Conservatory in San Francisco, clowning is no joke.
Its mission: to revive a maligned art.
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At just 4 years old, Cecelia Crocker became known as America's orphan
after being the only survivor in a 1987 plane crash, which, to this day,
she doesn't remember....
Texas' drought and water-supply problems have captured headlines,
and lawmakers appear poised to take action on funding water projects.
But with the state's rapid population growth projected to...
The Red Raider baseball team opened a three game set tonight with the
Baylor Bears looking to clinch a berth in the Big 12 Tournament and just
one win by Tech and one loss by Texas against TCU...
The brutal rise in college costs over the past decade is leading
students to take on unprecedented debt with the class of 2013 graduating
with debt that averages $35,200, according to a new by...
Pope Francis has denounced the global financial system, blasting the
"cult of money" that he says is tyrannizing the poor and turning humans
into expendable consumer goods....
The Texas House on Thursday is set to take up Sen. Dan Patrick's
proposal to increase the number of available state charter school
contracts. The House has...
