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DETROIT (AP) -- Vance Terrell offered encouraging words to his pregnant sister during visits to a western Michigan hospital. It didn't matter that she couldn't see or hear him, and would never hold her twin sons....

CHICAGO (AP) -- Poverty, a lack of education and arms proliferation present daunting obstacles, yet peace can be achieved if world leaders are more willing to talk and young people are encouraged to get involved, Nobel Peace Prize winners said Monday at their annual meeting....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Social Security is rushing even faster toward insolvency, driven by retiring baby boomers, a weak economy and politicians' reluctance to take painful action to fix the huge retirement and disability program....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Social Security is rushing even faster toward insolvency, driven by retiring baby boomers, a weak economy and politicians' reluctance to take painful action to fix the huge retirement and disability program....

CHICAGO (AP) -- What do hospitals charge to remove an appendix? The startling answer is that it could be the same as the price of a refrigerator - or a house....

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) -- A former aide to John Edwards has taken the witness stand in his criminal trial to testify about the ex-senator's role in allegedly violating campaign finance laws to cover up an extramarital affair....

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- Rocker Ted Nugent is scheduled for a court hearing in Alaska on Tuesday, when he is expected to plead guilty to transporting a black bear he illegally killed....

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- Rocker Ted Nugent is scheduled for a court hearing in Alaska on Tuesday, when he is expected to plead guilty to transporting a black bear he illegally killed....

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- Rocker Ted Nugent is scheduled for a court hearing in Alaska on Tuesday, when he is expected to plead guilty to transporting a black bear he illegally killed....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The ensemble comedy "Think Like a Man" opened as the weekend's top box-office draw with $33.6 million....

SEATTLE (AP) -- Two women whose bodies were found in a fire at a home in Washington state had been shot to death, the medical examiner's office said Monday....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Andy Pettitte, the reluctant witness who was supposed to bolster the government's case against Roger Clemens, appears to have instead substantially aided his former teammate and friend when he readily conceded he might have misunderstood their conversation about human growth hormone....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Under pressure to stop the Syrian government's deadly crackdown, President Barack Obama on Monday levied new sanctions on people and entities in Syria and Iran that use technology to target their citizens and perpetrate human rights abuses....

CHICAGO (AP) -- Jennifer Hudson says her family didn't want her sister to marry the man now accused of killing her mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The parties in the Roger Clemens perjury trial Monday settled on 12 jurors and four alternates who are mostly female and not baseball fans....

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) -- John Edwards' campaign finance fraud case ended in a mistrial Thursday when jurors acquitted him on one of six charges but were unable to decide whether he misused money from two wealthy donors to hide his pregnant mistress while he ran for president....

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- The husband of a Missouri woman who has been missing for nearly a year was charged with first-degree murder Monday even though his wife's body has not been found....

ABOARD A U.S. MILITARY AIRCRAFT (AP) -- Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Monday dismissed Tehran's claims that it has recovered data from a U.S. spy drone that went down in Iran late last year....

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) -- A nor'easter packing high winds, soaking rain and springtime snow churned up the Northeast on Monday, unleashing a burst of winter, closing some schools and sparking worries about power outages in communities that were basking in record warmth a month ago....