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Federal fisheries researchers says their survey found about 10 billion scallops in waters off Delaware and southern New Jersey. They're predicting a boom for the nation's most valuable fishery.

Adm. Michelle Howard says that when she called a Navy office to order the women's four-star shoulder boards, she was told that they didn't exist.

With more than 5 feet already on the ground in some areas of western New York state, another 3 feet is forecast. Worse yet, warming temperatures over the weekend could turn much of it to floodwater.

Thanksgiving menus traditionally celebrate the bounty of late fall. In rural Alaska, that means walrus, moose, fermented fish heads and Eskimo ice cream — salmonberries mixed with Crisco.

State lawmakers say they want to act quickly to spend the state’s growing $5 billion surplus on an infrastructure fund to fix up roads and bridges, among…

New York will soon have a new top judge now that the current chief judge of the Court of Appeals is approaching the mandatory retirement age of 70.…

Polish and Guatemalan voters have decisively rejected their current leadership, while Argentina is headed for a run-off. Candidates from the right won in Switzerland.

In 30 out of 50 cities studied in a wide-ranging new report, the rate is less than 15 percent. But the majority of four-year institutions in the U.S. still require students to take one or the other.

"Enough is enough," U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon says, accepting Babacar Gaye's resignation after peacekeepers were accused of raping a girl and killing two people in the Central African Republic.

The 121-foot-high statue in one of the country's poorest areas was paid for by local businessmen and villagers.