The convoy of a leading Haitian presidential candidate came under attack from gunmen, the candidate's sister said Tuesday.
Crews removed about 46,000 gallons of oil from waters near Port Arthur, Texas, on Sunday, roughly 10 percent of the oil spilled a day earlier when a tanker collided with two barges, a U.S. Coast Guard officer said.
The man who oversees Texas' criminal justice system called Wednesday for a shake-up as authorities searched for a prisoner in a wheelchair who escaped on foot Monday from two armed guards as he was being transferred between prisons.
A Texas inmate escaped from a prison van near Houston after pulling a gun on two guards who were transporting him between prisons, according to a Texas prison statement Monday.
You can't get through a conversation with Jesse Dayton without hearing a reference to Texas at least once.
A California man convicted of the 2006 arson murders of five U.S. Forest Service firefighters was sentenced to death Friday.
Raymond Lee Oyler, a 38-year-old serial arsonist who lit a brush fire that killed five firefighters is sentenced to death.
Zac Efron dropped out of the remake. Should Chace Crawford - or someone else - step into his dancing shoes?
There's retirement living, and then there's living it up in retirement. The latter is part of the draw of one of the fastest-growing retirement options - the continuing-care retirement community. These CCRCs, as they're called, often look a lot more like four-star resorts than old folks' homes.
Rebuilding hundreds of homes on the Texas Gulf Coast might be a difficult task. Ed Lavandera reports.
About 1,600 Hurricane Ike evacuees from the Texas coast headed home on state-chartered buses Monday after spending the week in shelters in the Fort Worth area.
CNN's Rusty Dornin details the continued destruction caused by Hurricane Ike in the Beaumont area.
Authorities in Orange County, Texas, were using dump trucks to rescue residents trapped on their roofs by flooding resulting from Hurricane Ike, a county judge said Saturday.
Edouard weakened to a tropical depression Tuesday afternoon after moving inland from the Gulf of Mexico and bringing much-needed rain to Central Texas.
AT&T Inc., the country's largest Internet provider, is considering charging extra for customers who download large amounts of data
A state that didn't expect to have a role in the 2008 primaries is now the crucial test. And locals are savoring every minute of it
Fixed prices in China are causing one of the country's worst fuel shortages in years. CNN's Eunice Yoon reports
Hurricane Humberto crashed ashore along Southeast Texas early Thursday, bringing heavy rains and maximum sustained winds of up to 80 mph as it made its way to eastern Louisiana, the National Weather Service said.
Oil retreated below $75 a barrel Tuesday, after setting fresh 11-month highs fueled by supply concerns and a wave of speculative buying.
World Wrestling Entertainment has released a timeline and five cryptic text messages related to the Chris Benoit tragedy.
World Wrestling Entertainment star Chris Benoit asphyxiated his wife Nancy and their 7-year-old son Daniel before hanging himself, Fayette County Sheriff's Department's Lt. Tommy Pope said at a press conference outside the Benoit home on Tuesday.
In the middle of a nationwide housing slump, a few markets have held their ground - and then some.
I don't think it's arguable: Of all athletic accomplishments in living memory, none was remotely as significant as Jackie Robinson simply stepping onto the grass at Ebbets Field wearing a major lea...
I was a member of the audience at a recent CNN forum on racism held in Beaumont, Texas. ("Out in the Open: Racism in America," December 19). I believe that the show's focus on racism in southeast Texas was much too narrow.
After ex-"Seinfeld" star Michael Richards' bigoted tirade at a comedy club last month, my staff and I started talking about what could possibly drive a person to say such vile and hateful things.
As a reporter for CNN, I've spent a lot of time travelling around the United States. And along the way, I've developed some impressions of who we are, and where we are, as a society.
Wildfires, like people, have personalities. And by understanding their behavior wildfire investigators can trace a fire back to its source and find out what and who started it.
A man arrested Tuesday in connection with a June wildfire is a "person of interest" in last week's wildfire in Southern California that killed five firefighters and ravaged more the 40,000 acres, authorities said.
Three people have been questioned in connection with the arson that investigators say sparked the deadly Esperanza wildfire that killed four firefighters
The prognosis is "poor" for a firefighter who suffered burns over 90 percent of his body while battling a sprawling Southern California wildfire, the chief of the hospital where the man is being treated said Friday.
(CNN) -- As the 2006 hurricane season gets under way, people in coastal states are planning everything from stocking their pantries to moving cross-country.
President Bush traveled to Texas and Louisiana on Tuesday to get a closer look at widespread devastation from Hurricane Rita, which virtually wiped out some coastal communities.
Hurricane Rita apparently caused far lower insured losses than did Hurricane Katrina, but it may still prove to be one of the nation's most costly storms.
(CNN) -- No deaths from Hurricane Rita have been reported in Louisiana or Texas, but early damage assessments are emerging as emergency officials enter affected areas.
Damage was reported Saturday at two oil refineries in the Gulf of Mexico area following Hurricane Rita, but the full extent of the damage from the storm is still being assessed.
Lawyers for convicted former WorldCom CEO Bernard Ebbers are basing their appeal on claims that they were unfairly denied the opportunity to question the company's former No. 2 executive during his trial, according to a published report.
Attention bargain hunters! If you want to buy in the most underpriced housing markets in the country, go southwest young man.
Hedge funds have snapped their losing streak: July was the best month hedge funds have seen all year, with the major indexes that track them posting positive numbers across the board.
The median home cost nearly $17,000 more in the first quarter than it did a year before. According to the National Association of Realtors, the median house sold for $188,800 this winter, nearly 10 percent higher than 12 months ago.
U.S. residential real estate markets lost no steam in the first quarter of 2005, according to statistics released Thursday by the National Association of Realtors.
A quiz: In which U.S. city did median home prices shoot up most sharply in the 12 months ended in September? (a) Honolulu, (b) Waterloo, Iowa, or (c) Beverly Hills?
Susie Mae Lundy, 71, has nine reasons to be proud: The kids she raised with husband Willie J. Smith, 73, a Baptist pastor. The couple, living in one of New Orleans's poorest neighborhoods, set entr...
BEAUMONT, CALIFORNIA -- Cleanup of toxic wastes at the old Lockheed . . . rocket-testing site south of Beaumont has been delayed about a year while plans are hammered out for dealing with the feder...
THE PARTY DAYS that oil brought to Texas are over -- probably for good, most Texans admit -- and the hangover in the state's economy is taking its sweet time to end. Though the state is trying to s...
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