How parents can prepare. We're well into back-to-school prep, buying glue sticks and comparing lunchboxes. But this year, the process is a bit out of the ordinary. It includes getting up to speed on what our family should do if my child gets swi...

LAS VEGAS, Nevada — Michael Jackson's body will be laid to rest on August 29, the day the King of Pop would have turned 51, his father told AFP. Joe Jackson, 80, said the birthday burial at Los Angeles' Forest Lawn Cemetery would be a...

Effective July 24th, 2009, the Federal Minimum Wage will increase from its current level of $6.55 (previously $5.85) to $7.25 an hour, according to the United States Department of Labor. This amounts to an increase of 10.7%. These wa...

South Africa announced the launch of clinical trials of the first AIDS vaccines created by a developing country with assistance from the U.S. on Monday. It represented a feat by scientists who overcame skepticism from col...

PepsiCo Inc. said Tuesday it has reached agreements to acquire its two largest bottlers, including Minneapolis-based PepsiAmericas Inc., for a combined $7.8 billion.

A total of 12 witnesses all said that he was unarmed. In spite of this, a 73-year-old black man in Homer, La., was shot in a case that has sparked a great deal of racial tension in the area. What is most intriguing is that the grand jury refused to...

Doctor Is Charged in Death of Jackson

With speculation about the contents of a forthcoming New York Times "bombshell" report on Governor Paterson reaching a fever pitch, Paterson personally addressed the salacious rumors in an interview with the Associated Press yesterday, reiterating that...

It was just a "playful night of gunfire," a top investigator for the Texas Rangers said. No justice after 55 years in racial killing News Videos The nine bullets fired by two white men into a rural East Texas cafe � leaving a black teenager dead �...