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Quest for oil, gas off Fla. begins

Oil companies once viewed drilling in the deep waters off Florida as cost prohibitive. Politicians feared even the slightest sign of support would be career suicide.

Calif. faces blazes on two fronts

Nontraditional tenants filling up vacant malls

Community college classes in the old mall movie theater. A DMV office across from the Starbucks. Maybe a local library between the Victoria's Secret and the Gap.

Jobs that earn a surprising six-figures

Freeze frame: Youkilis, Red Sox beat Yankees

Mike Lowell hit a three-run homer and Kevin Youkilis had a hit bounce off Johnny Damon and stall on top of the wall before falling for a two-run triple in Boston's 6-4 win over the Yankees.

Phillies down Mets on walk-off single

Larry Harmon, longtime Bozo the Clown, dies

Larry Harmon, one of the first men to play the famed Bozo the Clown character, has died at 83.

French locals indifferent to Brangelina

Some psych patients wait days in ERs

When staffers at a Brooklyn hospital spotted a middle-aged woman lying face-down on a waiting room floor last month, it hardly seemed like cause for alarm.

Strike the right balance

Cosmic Log: Stars and stripes in space

Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: NASA's Great Observatories present a red-white-and-blue view of cosmic stars and stripes, just in time for the Fourth of July.

8 dangerous volcanoes around the world

Top 10 places to celebrate the Fourth of July

July 4th isn't your everyday holiday — it's the birthday of the good ol’ U.S. of A., and everyone's invited to the countrywide party.

Bring a bib to America's best barbecue joints