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Hobbled and humbled in the World Baseball Classic, Team USA is still swinging.

With the economy sputtering along, buying a plane ticket for a getaway may not be a priority. But that doesn't mean there aren't great jaunts nearby. Just about every city across the country has options for day trips, where for the cost of a tank of gas the urge for travel can be satisfied.

The entire state of Vermont is under a winter storm warning, with more than a foot of snow forecast to fall in northern and central ...

A commuter airplane crashed into a house in suburban Buffalo, N.Y., late Thursday and burst into flames, killing all 48 people aboard and at least one person on the ground, authorities said.

Wild winds with gusts topping 60 mph blew from the Great Lakes to the East Coast Thursday, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of customers, disrupting travel and killing at least four people.

A Massachusetts man who walked into a police station and asked for help removing a pair of handcuffs dangling from one wrist ended up wearing another pair instead. Police Sgt. Sean Sweeney said 21-year-old Allahmanamjad (el-ah-MAN'-a-jahd) Barbel showed up Tuesday claiming he couldn't get off the cuffs his sister slipped on him at a child's birthday party.

The image of the United States around the world has improved in the past year while China and Russia's standing in other countries has slipped, according to an opinion poll published on Friday.

An explosive device went off in the car of a prominent Arkansas doctor as federal agents investigated the blast outside his home that critically injured him, a spokesman with the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms told FOX News.

The arctic air hovering over the southeastern United States on Wednesday will bring bitter cold by nightfall and a hard freeze warning for much of Florida that could kill crops and sensitive vegetation, forecasters said.

A crippling winter storm has plunged about a million customers into the dark from the Midwest to the East Coast, and thousands of people in ice-caked Kentucky have sought refuge in motels and shelters.