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Delinquent U.S. mortgage payments fell to 7.99 percent in the third quarter, down from 9.1 percent from a year earlier, according to the Mortgage Bankers Assocation.

Casey Anthony, who was acquitted of murder charges of her 2-year-old daughter Caylee, just missed a near-death scenario recently.

With Herman Cain's fall, Newt Gingrich is up to bat as the latest conservative alternative to Mitt Romney. Where does the former speaker of the House stand on the issues?

Actress Lindsay Lohan's father Michael Lohan pleaded no contest on Wednesday to a domestic violence charge involving his former girlfriend and was sentenced to two years of probation, a spokesman for the prosecutor's office said.

Deforestation in northern regions linked to global cooling, researchers announced Wednesday.

Would you want to eat your dog? No, of course you wouldn't. Look at him. Or her. Right now. Look. Just look at that face.

Mitt Romney is leading the polls in New Hampshire, the nations first primary. But the Governor of Iowa, where voters will caucus in the first nominating contest of any kind, says the former Massachusetts Governor is ignoring the Hawkeye state.

Jersey Shore star Michael The Situation Sorrentino on Tuesday sued retailer Abercrombie & Fitch over what he claims was a publicity stunt to sell clothes using phrases associated with the reality TV actor.

The Situation sues Abercrombie & Fitch.

A new PETA-sponsored billboard is asking Utah students, If you wouldn't eat your dog, why eat a turkey?

Oba Chandler, a Florida man convicted of killing a mother and her two daughters in 1989, was executed on Wednesday by lethal injection. Chandler, 65, was pronounced dead at 4:25 p.m. at the state prison in Starke, the final chapter of the 22-year-old case.

Brigham Young University could be joining the Big East sooner rather than later, according to a report on Tuesday.

Jon Huntsman's father is paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for an ad campaign in New Hampshire in a last-ditch attempt to save his son's presidential campaign.

Under normal circumstances, we could feel sorry for Herman Cain, who has never before held political office. If he were still just a businessman, it would all be horribly unfair. But Cain is more than that now, for the moment at least. He became a legitimate contender for the highest office -- President of the United States. With that comes the terrible trail, the one candidates must must be able to navigate like carefully stepping through a mine field with 1,000 pounds on their back if they hop...

Last week, private investigator T.J. Ward announced that a layered voice analysis test proved Herman Cain's innocence of the sexual harassment charges against him. But according to two studies, the technology is not a reliable lie detector.

A public health expert says if pediatricians help their patients maintain a healthy weight and abstain from smoking early in life, fewer of them will develop heart problems as adults.

To most Republicans in Congress, it is a given that any deficit-reduction deal would have to include cuts to entitlement programs like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. According to a newly released survey, however, Republican voters in four key early-voting states disagree.

The top 15 American cities favored by citizens of the United States were revealed by a recent poll conducted by one of the world's leading custom market-research firms.

Barbara Grier, writer, publisher and the co-founder of Naiad Press, once world's largest publishing house for gay and lesbian literature, died of cancer yesterday in Tallahassee, Fla. She was 78.

Can you imagine spending $2 million on a trailer? This list of oddly expensive places is sure to surprise.

The international pavement art event has gone on for years, dazzling local residents, but Sarasota, Fla. officials decided to clean the streets immediately after the festival was finished. See fallen angels rendered in chalk, 3D terracotta LEGO soldiers, street-wide mosaics and more in these videos and photos, as artists from around the world create beauty on pavement.