J.J. McGrath

Armed groups in Colombia are booking higher earnings through illegal gold mining than through illegal cocaine production.

A powerful magnitude-6.5 earthquake shook Nicaragua’s Pacific Coast Saturday at 11:34 a.m. local time.

Facebook reported Friday it had between 9,000 and 10,000 information requests related to national security in the last six months of 2012.

Marketing of several Broadway shows in New York may be set afire by their successes at the 67th annual Tony Awards show Sunday.

Movie2k.to morphed into Movie4k.to this weekend after the online streaming-movie portal had mysteriously gone missing in action last week.

Clashes between demonstrators and police continued in Turkey for a third day, albeit at a lower level of intensity.

Matt Smith, aka the 11th Doctor in the British television series “Doctor Who,” will be turning over his key to the TARDIS in December.

The streaming-movie portal Movie2K mysteriously went missing in action this week, but its operators may be planning a sequel.

A mother and a baby are the first known casualties of the cluster of tornadoes that struck the Oklahoma City metropolitan area Friday night.

The cost of replacing the Missouri Route M highway overpass creamed by the freight-train crash In Scott County is estimated at about $3 million.

The commander in chief anticipated the commemoration of Memorial Day by paying tribute to America’s fallen heroes in his weekly address.

Demonstrators targeted the Monsanto Co. because of its historical role in introducing genetically modified products into the food supply.

Rail riders will continue to feel Monday the impacts of the commuter-train crash in Bridgeport Friday.

The U.S. Federal Reserve chairman delivered an address centered on "Economic Prospects for the Long Run," and here's what he had to say.

Ambulances have rushed to the scene of a collision of two Metro-North Railroad trains that occurred Friday night.

The leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz political party has claimed victory in the elections Saturday.

Private-equity players Bain Capital LLC and Golden Gate Capital could close the deal before BMC delivers its financial report Tuesday.

Alaska's Cleveland Volcano -- aka Mount Cleveland when in a more sedate mood -- began erupting Saturday at 5 a.m. AKDT (9 a.m. EDT).

Caterpillar Inc. announced it would slash the workforce at its plant in Decatur, Ill., for the second time in as many months.

Nestle USA is recalling certain production codes of four different California Pizza Kitchen and DiGiorno frozen pizzas distributed in the U.S.

If Claude Monet were around, he would have had a great time doing his Impressionistic, open-air painting thing in Central Park on May Day.

The clash apparently took place between inmates wielding homemade knives and picks at a prison in San Luis Potosi.

Saturn will appear brighter Sunday and Monday than at any other time this year because it will be making its closest approach to Earth.

U.S. Geological Survey data indicate the temblor this weekend was the fifth-largest to pound the province since 1923.

The earthquake, China's worst in three years, occurred Saturday morning in Lushan county near Ya'an city.

A Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. acquisition of the Life Technologies Corp. appeared close to completion Sunday.

The Manda Packing Co. has expanded a recall to include 468,000 pounds of meat as a result of possible contamination by Listeria monocytogenes.

Big-money bank depositors in the European Union have good reason to believe there are targets on their backs.

Matthew Warren -- the 27-year-old son of the Rev. Rick Warren, the pastor of the Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif. -- took his own life this weekend.