When he started "America's Most Wanted," John Walsh could point to at least one thing in its favor: Society's swampland of bad people doing bad things would never run dry. On that basis, the show seems a cinch to run forever.

Artist Robert Rauschenberg, whose use of odd and everyday articles earned him regard as a pioneer in pop art but whose talents spanned the worlds of painting, sculpture and dance, has died, his gallery representative said Tuesday. He was 82.

Investigators are searching for one or more arsonists who apparently started nine fires around a city on Florida's Atlantic coast, destroying or damaging about 100 homes, a police chief said Tuesday.

Injured Alex Rodriguez is hoping to rejoin the New York Yankees early next week.

Oil prices shot to a new record near $127 a barrel Tuesday on concerns that Iran may consider cutting crude oil production. Gas prices, meanwhile, rose to a new record over $3.73 a gallon Tuesday, and their advance shows little sign of slowing with Memorial Day weekend, the traditional start of the summer driving season, just 10 days away.

Sen. Barack Obama picked up the endorsement Tuesday of superdelegate Roy Romer, a former Colorado governor who later served as superintendent of Los Angeles public schools.

Hillary Rodham Clinton had every reason to expect a big victory Tuesday in the West Virginia Democratic primary as her campaign tried to use the contest to raise doubts about front-runner Barack Obama's electability in the fall.

The Legislature is asking a judge to dismiss a lawsuit challenging its right to set university tuition in Florida.

If we were not bogged down in Iraq in our “oil” war, I would be fully in favor of sending troops in and forcing our way into Burma militarily with aid.

Investors scouring for hints of a housing upturn won't find much evidence in the second-quarter preliminary sales results of luxury-home builder Toll Brothers Inc.