"There is no better way to honor and give thanks to our war veterans than to have their personal experiences recorded as part of the permanent historical record of our nation," said Upton. "There are 19 million war veterans living in the United States today, but every day we lose 1,700 of them. To put that into perspective, only 40,000 veterans have recorded their experiences to date. As a nati...

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NEW YORK - Buses returned to city streets and subways whooshed through tunnels Friday, as New Yorkers began the first morning rush since the end of a three-day strike that shut down the nation's largest mass transit system.

Subways and buses rumbled to life around midnight, and the transit authority said a normal fleet of trains...

In the past 115 years, only 31 Christmas Days have been white. The National Weather Service defines a white Christmas as an inch or more of snow on the ground. The last white Christmas in Columbia came in 2002, when 5 inches of snow fell the night before. Columbians had 11 inches of snow on the ground on Christmas Day in 1915. The snow had fallen before the holiday. The 1983 Christmas was defin...

Derrick Burgess can't swim and has no interest in laying out in the sun or learning how to surf. That won't keep the NFL's sacks leader from enjoying his first trip to Hawaii for the Pro Bowl.

"I'm going to sight see," Oakland's star defensive end said Wednesday. "I like to get around."

For Burgess, being named to the AFC team is a big deal considering everything he's overcome...

Houston coach Art Briles slipped into a glassy-eyed trance as he recalled the day that changed his life forever.

He rattled off the date his parents and aunt died in a car crash - Oct. 16, 1976 - and his voice turned hollow as he talked about the aftermath and how he persevered.

"I pulled up and pushed forward, but it's still with me every second," said Briles, who will lead Housto...

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Houston coach Art Briles slipped into a glassy-eyed trance as he recalled the day that changed his life forever.

He rattled off the date his parents and aunt died in a car crash - Oct. 16, 1976 - and his voice turned hollow as he talked about the aftermath and how he persevered.

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