Actor-director Mel Gibson will pay the mother of his toddler daughter $750,000 under a settlement disclosed Wednesday that allows her and the child to remain in their Sherman Oaks…

The state liquor board is modernizing its retail operations while voters consider whether to abolish its role selling alcohol.

By Melissa Allison

Seattle Times business reporter…

By JOELLE TESSLER and PETE YOST

Associated Press

By ADAM GOLDMAN, Associated Press – 10 hours ago 

NEW YORK (AP) — From an office on the Brooklyn waterfront in the months after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, New York Police Department officials and a veteran CIA officer built an intelligence-gathering program with an ambitious goal: to map the region's ethnic communities and…

By TAMAR LEWIN

Published: August 25, 2011

University of the People

Students using a University of the People computer center in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, one of three set up after the earthquake there in early 2010.

After the earthquake in Haiti destroyed much of the country’s higher-education infrastructure, the University…

A decade after the Sept. 11 attacks, federal and state governments are doling out about $75 billion a year on domestic security. Whether the spending spree has been worth it is the subject of increasing debate.

The Burbank Police Department deploys a BearCat armored vehicle to a standoff. Hundreds of the vehicles have been purchased with federal money across the country. (Roger Wilson, Glendale News…

Steve Jobs will remain on the Walt Disney Co.'s board of directors, after resigning as Apple's CEO on Wednesday, according to a report.

Upon officially stepping down from his post as Apple's chief executive this week, Jobs was named…

By GARDINER HARRIS

Published: August 25, 2011

Yet another panel of scientists has found no evidence that a popular vaccine causes…

By SCOTT SHANE

Published: August 25, 2011

Ali H. Soufan, left, who as an F.B.I. agent spent years near the center of battle with Al Qaeda.

WASHINGTON — In what amounts to a fight over who gets to…

By ELISABETH BUMILLER

Published: August 24, 2011

WASHINGTON — The pace and scope of…

In the latest incident involving violence by families of deceased patients, a hospital staff in Nanchang fights back. Some say the protests are a ploy for money.

August 24, 2011 |  6:56 pm…

US software…

(AP) -- The arrangement of nearly 3,000 names at the World Trade Center memorial is now available as a free iPhone app.

The guide to the names was placed online in May. It will be available on electronic kiosks when the memorial opens next month, on the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. It includes biographical information about each of the victims.

The names are inscribed on bronze parapets where the towers stood.

Memorial President Joe Daniels…

August 24, 2011

The face-freezing pharmaceutical injection Botox gained another medical use on Wednesday when the US government approved it for use in some patients with overactive bladder.

The new application was given the nod by the US Food and Drug Administration to treat people with multiple sclerosis or spinal cord injury who suffer from…