CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Actress Ashley Judd brought her star power to breakfast Tuesday as she urged her fellow Tennessee delegates to talk up the achievements of President Barack Obama’s first term.The Franklin, Tenn.-based star of "Kiss The Girls" and "Double Jeopardy" said that "with all the ...

LITCHFIELD, Ill.— As a Megabus slammed into a bridge support pillar on an interstate highway in Illinois, the impact was so powerful that it flung 16-year-old passenger Baysha Collins from the upper-level seat where she was resting to a stairway leading to the lower level.From there, she ...

SANFORD, Fla --Trayvon Martin was suspended from school in October in an incident in which he was found in possession of women's jewelry and a screwdriver that a schools security staffer described as a "burglary tool," The Miami Herald has learned.Trayvon, a Miami Gardens teenager who claimed ...

GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. -- Like so many others who visit the Grand Canyon each year, Jennifer and John Stambaugh of Illinois toted bottled water as they took in the views recently.These bottles came from the tour company that bused them here from Las Vegas, but many visitors buy ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.— Mitt Romney is fighting to avoid an embarrassing home-state loss in a high-stakes Michigan primary that will not decide the Republican presidential contest but could scar the former Massachusetts governor just a week before Super Tuesday.Rival Rick Santorum is calling ...

WASHINGTON -- The world according to Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney: Europeans are socialists. The Chinese are currency manipulators. Russia can't be trusted to abide by nuclear agreements. The Palestinians are out to destroy Israel. And the U.S. is too generous with ...