TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- Alex Rodriguez may soon be talking to federal authorities, and he hopes it will happen close to spring training....

TULSA, Okla. (AP) -- Marion Jones hasn't lost much of her swagger....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The head of the Bowl Championship Series thinks Congress "has more important things to do" than look into the way his group distributes money to college football conferences....

The children who were forced to sleep in cages in northern Ohio have reached a deal with the county.

The Cleveland school board voted Tuesday to close 16 schools at the end of this school year. Get the details.

Derek Anderson is saying he is sorry a day after he ripped Cleveland fans following his release from the team.

SEATTLE (AP) -- Math and English instruction in the United States moved a step closer to uniform - and more rigorous - standards Wednesday as draft new national guidelines were released....

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- The self-dubbed "Jihad Jane" who thought her blond, all-American profile would help mask her plan to kill a Swedish cartoonist is a rare case of a U.S. woman inciting foreign terrorism and shows the latest evolution of the global threat, authorities say....

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- When Juanita Goggins became the first black woman elected to the South Carolina Legislature in 1974, she was hailed as a trailblazer and twice visited the president at the White House....

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) -- An open diplomatic row during the visit of Vice President Joe Biden has shined a spotlight on the U.S. failure to rein in Israeli settlement ambitions and deepened Palestinian suspicions that the United States is too weak to broker a deal....

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Myanmar's military regime took yet another step to expunge Aung San Suu Kyi from the political scene Wednesday by effectively barring her from the first elections in 20 years and pressuring her opposition party to expel her from its ranks....

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- They kept the books, had the training and fixed the computers. They were the educated few of Haiti, an up-and-coming generation of nurses, technicians, office managers and college students....