U.S. workers were more productive this summer than initially thought, while costing their companies less.

Another Starbucks may soon pop up around the corner, with the world's biggest coffee company planning to add at least 1,500 cafes in the U.S. over the next five years.

Emily has leukemia. She just underwent a month of chemotherapy and had her right arm amputated after suffering complications. Doctors say she is at risk of dying from an infection.

Boston Market Corp. is reporting record Thanksgiving sales this year - and it's already planning for next Thanksgiving.

A security video showing the abduction of an Alaska barista is unnerving on its own, but it only hints at the horror ahead for the 18-year-old woman.

House Republicans' "fiscal cliff" counteroffer to President Barack Obama hints at billions of dollars in military cuts on top of the nearly $500 billion that the White House and Congress backed last year, and even the fiercest defense hawks acknowledge that the Pentagon faces another financial hit.

Good news for McRib fans, the famous sandwich is returning to McDonalds, for a limited time.

There's a push by several national associations to have federal lawmakers make cell phone providers keep your private text messages

The woman who was listed as the world's oldest person has died in a Georgia nursing home at age 116.

Police have been leaving a cash-filled purse and a bag with a DVD player in unattended shopping carts outside stores in Manchester, N.H.

New York City police are questioning a suspect in the death of a subway rider who was shoved onto the tracks.

A student who witnessed last week's bow-and-arrow killing of a Wyoming community college instructor says she thought at first that the assailant brought the weapon into the classroom only to try to scare the victim.

A federal appeals court has rejected a Verizon challenge to a Federal Communications Commission rule aimed at increasing competition in wireless broadband service.

As authorities slowly move 6 million pounds of explosives that had been improperly stored at a munitions recycling facility, they're revealing more details about the kind of danger the explosives posed.

President Barack Obama says there will be no deal to avert the "fiscal cliff" unless Republicans drop their opposition to raising tax rates on the wealthiest Americans.

Former President George H.W. Bush is improving but remains in a Houston hospital for treatment of a stubborn bronchitis-related cough.

The wife of a New York City man who was pushed onto subway tracks to his death by a mumbling stranger says she and her husband had argued before the tragedy.

A new study says basic prescription drug coverage could vary dramatically from state to state under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.

The warden at a North Carolina prison where inmates said they were forced to rub hot sauce on their genitals has been suspended pending the outcome of an investigation.

Republicans are proposing a "fiscal cliff" plan that revives ideas from failed budget talks with President Barack Obama last year, calling for raising the eligibility age for Medicare, lowering cost-of-living hikes for Social Security benefits and bringing in $800 billion in higher tax revenue.

Families are coming home to find their dogs had vanished from inside houses, behind locked fences and outdoor kennels in rural communities east of Albuquerque.

A military appeals court has ousted the judge in the Fort Hood shooting case and thrown out his order to forcibly shave suspect.

The White House is rejecting a Republican counteroffer aimed at averting the "fiscal cliff," saying it does not meet what the White House calls "the test of balance."

An Indiana man faces charges that he killed a friend and hid the body in his basement freezer.

The Food and Drug Administration says it will collaborate with medical device manufacturers on a public-private partnership designed to speed up the development of new medical technology.