Posted: 5:05 AM As many as 900 colleges are pushing students into using payment cards that carry hefty costs, sometimes even to get to their financial aid money, according to a report.

Posted: 4:59 AM BlackBerry-maker Research in Motion has hired a team of bankers to help it weigh its options as its business erodes in the face of an exodus to the iPhone and Android smartphones.

Posted: 9:31 PM No Wikepedia, no spell check, it's just all smarts for over 200 contestants in the 2012 National Spelling Bee today.

Posted: 5:11 PM The White House says it remains opposed to military action in Syria, reasoning that would only lead to more carnage.

Posted: 5:09 PM Flamboyant former NBA star Dennis Rodman was sentenced in family court Tuesday to 104 hours of community service on four counts of contempt for failing to pay child support.

Posted: 5:06 PM A Detroit-area man has been charged with allegedly getting a friend to try to kill his pregnant ex-girlfriend to prevent her from having his baby.

Posted: 5:01 PM Residents along the Southeast coast were warned of possible flooding Tuesday from former Tropical Storm Beryl that left up to 10 inches of rain in northern Florida

Posted: 4:59 PM A witness says a campaign worker was struck in the leg in a drive-by shooting about 100 yards from a South Texas polling place that doubles as a police and fire station.

Posted: 4:57 PM A Texas judge has ruled that Los Angeles police are entitled to recordings of conversations between a Manson family member and his attorney.

Posted: 4:55 PM The son of Malcolm X's biographer is asking Syracuse University to hand over a letter in which the slain activist writes about his shifting views on race relations, claiming his family is the rightful owner.

Posted: 11:07 AM The jury in the John Edwards campaign finance corruption trial is deliberating for a seventh day after a long weekend in which they were warned by the judge not to discuss the case.

Posted: 11:05 AM President Barack Obama's re-election campaign is releasing a television advertisement accusing Mitt Romney of failing to stand up to "the voices of extremism" in his party.

Posted: 11:03 AM After the 2001 terrorist attacks, California lawmakers sought a way to channel the patriotic fervor and use it to help victims' families and law enforcement.

Posted: 10:58 AM A witness says a naked man chewing on the face of another naked man on a downtown highway ramp kept eating and growled at a police officer who fatally shot him to make him stop.

Posted: 10:51 AM With the official start of hurricane season coming Friday, U.S. officials are reviewing their disaster plans — especially since a tropical storm already swept ashore this week.

Posted: 10:46 AM The president paid special tribute to Vietnam veterans, noting that many "came home and were sometimes denigrated when you should have been celebrated."

Posted: 10:43 AM The federal judge in the perjury trial against former major league pitcher Roger Clemens has excused a third juror, leaving just one alternate as the trial enters its seventh week.

Updated: 10:29 AM Cow comfort has become a key concern for the nation's farmers, who have known for generations that contented cows give more milk.

Posted: 10:28 AM Gilbertson rubbed the Holstein's spine by gently squeezing it from neck to tail, pausing to apply firm pressure to one hip and readjust several vertebrae.

Posted: 10:17 AM Home prices rose in March from February in most major U.S. cities for the first time in seven months. The increase is latest evidence of a slow recovery taking shape in the troubled housing market.

Updated: 8:41 AM A man dangled from the cab of a 150-foot construction crane before falling to his death early Tuesday at a college campus in Dallas, ending a more than 14-hour standoff, police said.

Posted: 5:32 AM Across the vast Pacific, the mighty bluefin tuna carried radioactive contamination that leaked from Japan's crippled nuclear plant to the shores of the United States 6,000 miles away.

Posted: 5:14 AM Mitt Romney is poised to clinch the Republican presidential nomination after Tuesday's Texas GOP primary.

Posted: 5:12 AM Scientists and doctors are using creeping metallic tools to perform surgery on hearts, prostate cancer, and other diseased organs.

Posted: 5:03 AM An Associated Press review of the $15 million collected since lawmakers approved the "California Memorial Scholarship Program" shows only a small fraction of the money went to scholarships.