An attorney for the Montgomery-based Southern Poverty Law Center says the U.S. Supreme Court has turned down Alabama's appeal to revive portions of the state's immigration law.

Gitlo Lee, "Comin' Out the Hole" (Chuckie Productions)

Seattle City Council Member Richard Conlin has drawn a second challenger: Brian Carver, an Amazon.com manager who says education, police department reform and use-friendly transit are the keys to his second Seattle City Council campaign. Carver lost in the 2009 primary for Sally Bagshaw’s seat

Sixth-seeded Benoit Paire of France beat Igor Sijsling of the Netherlands 7-6 (5), 6-3 Monday in the opening round of the Portugal Open.

Guinea-Bissau's interim president pledged to hold elections before the end of the year.

Kenneth Appel, a mathematician who was the first to use a computer to prove a century-old major mathematical theorem, has died at age 80 in Dover, N.H.

A spaceship bankrolled by British tycoon Sir Richard Branson made its first powered flight Monday in a test that moves Virgin Galactic toward its goal of flying into space later this year.

The state's efforts to stop the rapid spread of valley fever through two Central California prisons have been so ineffectual that it should stop placing prisoners there, a medical expert told a federal judge in San Francisco overseeing health care in the state's prisons.

Jason Aldean has filed for divorce.

Charges have been filed against a man who allowed his 9-year-old son to drive his Ferrari, police in the southern Indian state of Kerala said Monday.

From his city hall under Belgium's most imposing cathedral, Mayor Bart Somers is wracking his brains trying to figure out how to keep young Muslims from going to fight "holy war" in Syria against the Assad regime.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and The Israel Museum have jointly purchased a 15th century illuminated Hebrew manuscript

The AAA auto club reports the average price of a gallon of gasoline in Washington is $3.63.

They sweep. They swab. They sterilize. And still the germs persist.

"Life on a Rock," Kenny Chesney (Blue Chair/Columbia Nashville)

State funding for pre-kindergarten programs had its largest drop ever last year and states are now spending less per child than they did a decade ago, according to a report released Monday.

The Mexican navy said Monday it has detected a disturbing trend of migrant smugglers abandoning boatloads of people at sea off the coast of Baja California.

Weak sales in Europe and the U.S. and lower profits at U.S. partner Chrysler pushed Italian carmaker Fiat to a loss in the first quarter.

The Supreme Court ruled Monday that it's legal for a state to limit use of its Freedom of Information Act to its own residents.

A second batch of six pontoons for the new Highway 520 floating bridge in Seattle floated out of their casting basin early Monday in Aberdeen.