NEW YORK (AP) — The Dow Jones industrial average briefly topped 14,000 on Friday morning, a milestone not seen since before the financial crisis rocked the markets and the world economy.

Police say a man opened fire at the end of a mediation session over a lawsuit he filed last April.

The blast in Ankara, Turkey, could be heard a mile away.

The sentence could land the man in prison for life.

A NASA official wrestled with what he thought was a hypothetical: What should you tell the astronauts of a shuttle?

The unemployment rate rose from 7.8 in December to 7.9 percent in January, but the economy added 157,000 new jobs last month, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' monthly report released Friday morning. The report indicates that job gains were seen in retail trade, construction, health care and wholesale trade, while employment edged [...]

Jose Delao faces two to 10 years for practicing dentistry without a license.

Several Republican-controlled states that voted for President Barack Obama are considering a similar policy.

By the time he left office at the end of 1989, Gotham's future no longer was in doubt.

The actor talks about how our political heroes have to wheel-and-deal.

Jimmy Lee Dykes, 65, was known as a troublemaker and once beat a dog to death.

The bomb exploded inside a security checkpoint in Ankara, Turkey.

Hong Kong is stop mainland Chinese visitors from hoarding all its supply.

Former Mayor Ed Koch, the combative, acid-tongued politician who rescued the city from near-financial ruin during a three-term City Hall run in which he embodied New York chutzpah for the rest of the world, died Friday. He was 88.

Turkish news reports said Sierra had arranged to meet her contact on a bridge the day she went missing.

LISBON (Reuters) - Portuguese consumer confidence is at record lows, unemployment at all-time highs and the country has launched the largest tax rises in living memory. Yet investors are snapping up its bonds and its international lenders are full of praise. In perhaps the starkest example of the gap between renewed investor appetite and languishing economies, Portugal has started 2013 on its strongest footing since it was bailed out in mid-2011, with confidence boosted by hopes it will relinquish its lifeline from the European Union and IMF as scheduled. Investors bought 2. ...