Proponents of Medicaid expansion face an uphill battle as the legislative session nears its end May 3.

A Texas inmate was executed Thursday evening for fatally shooting one of three people he and a partner abducted during a convenience store robbery nearly 11 years ago.

Zubeidat Tsarnaeva was added to a terrorism database about 18 months before the attack.

Samsung Electronics Co sold a record 69.4 million smartphones in the first quarter, boosting its market share to an all-time high of 33.1 percent, data from research firm Strategy Analytics showed on Friday.    

Former Atlanta Braves pitcher Rick Camp was found dead in his northwest Georgia home Thursday morning.

Police suspect country singer Billy Currington may have videotaped himself chasing a 70-year-old tour boat captain along a coastal Georgia creek and threatening to "finish him off" in a tirade filled with profanities, according to court documents filed Thursday.

Harley-Davidson's first-quarter profit jumped 30 percent as it shipped more motorcycles to dealerships across the globe.

Americans may not feel optimistic about the economy but they're still spending more at Starbucks.

Promising education reforms before the state Legislature that once seemed doom are moving forward now. Bills in Olympia are never dead.

More than 5 percent of eligible American adults are now receiving disability payments from Social Security. Many of these people can — and should — be working, writes Froma Harrop.

The desire to build a Sodo stadium entertainment area like L.A. Live overlooks a few key differences between the neighborhoods in Seattle and L.A., writes guest columnist Dave Gering.

Medical and recreational marijuana may be legal in Colorado, but employers in the state can lawfully fire workers who test positive for the drug, even if it was used off duty, according to a court ruling Thursday.

General Electric's finance arm is cutting ties with gun dealers, halting financing offers at about 75 gun shops across the U.S. in the wake of the Newtown, Conn., massacre that took the lives of 20 schoolchildren and six teachers and administrators.

Americans may not feel optimistic about the economy but they're still spending more at Starbucks.

Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel launched a barrage of criticism Thursday against the attorney who represented him at his murder trial, portraying an overly confident lawyer having fun and basking in the limelight while making fundamental mistakes from poor jury picks to failing to track down key witnesses.

Growing is hard for a company as big as Exxon.

A Mississippi man whose home was searched in the investigation of poisoned letters sent to the president and others has apparently gone into hiding, but his attorney said he is cooperating and the FBI knows how to get in touch with him.

3M said Thursday its first-quarter profit barely rose as it faced weaker demand. It cut its profit guidance for the full year.

Members of the teachers’ union in Guerrero State showed their anger, and in some cases turned violent, over President Enrique Peña Nieto’s plan to overhaul the education system.