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Less than a year after regulators shut down Charlotte-based bus company Sky Express after a deadly wreck, federal records show another bus company operating from Sky Express' old building ranks as one of the country's worst offenders for unsafe driving.

Ki Gulbranson owns a logo apparel shop, deals in jewelry on the side and referees youth soccer games. He makes about $39,000 a year and wants you to know that he does not need any help from the federal government.

The last five months have been eventful for Steav Bates-Congdon.

Whitney Houston, who ruled as pop music's queen until her majestic voice and regal image were ravaged by drug use, erratic behavior and a tumultuous marriage to singer Bobby Brown, died Saturday. She was 48.

Mitt Romney averted embarrassment Saturday when he was declared the winner of Maine's nonbinding caucuses.

As some Republican leaders wring their hands at the prospect of a drawn-out nominating contest, many of the 10,000 people attending the Conservative Political Action Conference here did not seem too concerned about that possibility.

Gearing up for a tough political season ahead, Michelle Obama said Saturday she's trying to get as much done as possible before the general election campaign starts to drown out everything else.

A chart in Friday's Sports section incorrectly identified the Los Angeles Clippers' 1987 draft pick. The Clippers drafted Georgetown's Reggie Williams fourth overall.

Country trio Lady Antebellum will play Charlotte and Raleigh during the summer leg of its 2012 Own the Night World Tour.

A crackdown on U.S.-funded pro-democracy groups in Egypt and a bill before Parliament that would further restrict the work of nongovernmental organizations here are inhibiting development work and activism during a period many Egyptians hoped would be marked by greater freedoms.

Libya demanded Niger hand over one of Moammar Gadhafi's sons who is under house arrest in the neighboring African nation after he warned in a television interview that his homeland was facing a new uprising.

The tensions between the two neighborhoods were building for days in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli. On one side live Sunni Muslims who hate the Syrian regime. On the hill above are members of the Alawite sect, Bashar Assad's strongest backers.

It is too early to tell whether President Barack Obama ended the debate over a contraceptive mandate Friday by announcing that the federal department of Health and Human Services would require insurance companies, not employers, to pay for the disputed coverage.

For our money, former secretaries of state are as strong as anyone for making interesting conversation.

Ki Gulbranson owns a logo apparel shop, deals in jewelry on the side and referees youth soccer games. He makes about $39,000 a year and wants you to know that he does not need any help from the federal government.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Saturday that Iran will disclose new nuclear projects in the coming days.

Solar-powered lights serve as sentries where U.S. Marines once faced off along the Cuban frontier. A team of Navy cops now rides bikes rather than gas-guzzling patrol cars in the searing Caribbean sunshine.

Josefina Vazquez Mota has made history as Mexico's first viable female presidential contender but now faces voters wearied by her conservative party's 11 years in power and doubtful that she'll correct its course on gangland violence, poverty and other crises.

A crucial medicine to treat childhood leukemia is in such short supply hospitals across the country may exhaust their stores within the next two weeks, leaving hundreds and perhaps thousands of children at risk of dying from a largely curable disease, federal officials and cancer doctors say.

The Supreme Court has nine justices, but if the constitutional fight over same-sex marriage reaches them this year, the decision will probably come down to just one: a California Republican and Reagan-era conservative who has nonetheless written the court's two leading gay rights opinions.