WASHINGTON (AP) - Hurricane Ike's winds and massive waves destroyed oil platforms, tossed storage tanks and punctured pipelines. The environmental damage only now is becoming apparent: At least a half million gallons of crude oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico and the marshes, bayous and bays of Louisiana and Texas, according to an analysis of federal data by The Associated Press. ...more

October 6, 2008

The death of a police dog in a department car, blamed on a faulty air conditioner, points to the risks these animals face in helping fulfill their handlers' duties, dog handlers say. ...more

July 23, 2008

The death of a police dog in a department car, blamed on a faulty air conditioner, points to the risks these animals face in helping fulfill their handlers' duties, dog handlers say. ...more

July 22, 2008

Whether you see him as a country western-singing umpire or as an umpire who sings country western music, Joe West is living life one musical note and out at a time. ...more

July 22, 2008

Joe Girardi was summoned upstairs for the first time. The new manager of the New York Yankees met Sunday with owner George Steinbrenner, who hadn't spoken with Girardi since the former catcher interviewed for the job in October. ...more

February 18, 2008

When it came to encouraging fitness, few did more to get Americans off the couch than John F. Kennedy. ...more

November 23, 2007