The Chicago Bears and Brad Maynard have come to terms on a five-year contract extension that will keep the punter with the team through the 2010 season.

By R. Albert Mohler Jr. | "Brian, a bright and personable third-grader, brought home from school a form that frustrated him: his family tree, complete with empty spaces f...

TRENTON, N.J. - Ongoing teacher certification delays are forcing some educators to earn a substitute teacher's salary without benefits several months after an executive order forced the state education department to make improvements.

JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Authorities continued to investigate the brutal slayings of a couple and their two children, as a family member in Egypt called for revenge in the mysterious deaths.

HACKENSACK, N.J. - State environmental officials are considering more than 100 requests for waivers from a new law that protects the Highlands region from large development, according to a published report.

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Rutgers finally found a Top 10 team it couldn't handle.

PHILADELPHIA - Jevon Kearse hardly gave Daunte Culpepper time to throw or room to run. Randy Moss couldn't escape Lito Sheppard and Sheldon Brown.

SALT LAKE CITY - A 9-year-old Utah boy won a national championship in a sport he doesn't even like, and only did it after missing a bus to the finals.

PHILADELPHIA - Randy Moss had an excused absence this time.

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Word that a U.S. Army reservist was sentenced to 10 years behind bars for physically and sexually abusing Iraqi detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison drew scorn Sunday from Iraqis who thought he should have been tried

NEW YORK Senator Charles Schumer is calling for stronger federal regulation of the railroads.The New York Democrat says regulators share the blame for a January sixth...

LITTLETON, Colo. Patrick Lawler knew he had a toothache, he just didn't know why.It took a dentist to pinpoint the problem: a four-inch nail Lawler had unknowingly fired...

By R. Albert Mohler Jr. | "Brian, a bright and personable third-grader, brought home from school a form that frustrated him: his family tree, complete with empty spaces f...

The Chicago Bears and Brad Maynard have come to terms on a five-year contract extension that will keep the punter with the team through the 2010 season.

The Chicago Bears and Brad Maynard have come to terms on a five-year contract extension that will keep the punter with the team through the 2010 season.

The U.S. military freed 81 prisoners held in Afghanistan on Sunday, and the country's most senior judge said the government was pressing for the release of hundreds more from American custody.

A majority of Americans polled say they feel hopeful about President Bush's second term, yet many remain worried, especially about Iraq.

Police today identified a gunman who took his girlfriend and her two daughters hostage in a North Long Beach apartment.

President Bush says the U.S. military will pull out of Iraq "as quickly as possible," but he is not endorsing Secretary of State Colin Powell's statement that troops could begin returning home this year.