I've shaved and cut my hair," said Sanderson, who plays Sheriff Bud Dearborn in the Alan Ball vampire drama, premiering tonight. "I've played a lot of renegade misfits in my career. I saw this as a chance to play a

Zaun hit a game-ending grand slam in the 13th inning, and Toronto beat the Rays 7-4 on Saturday to extend their season-high winning streak to seven games.

Clinton brushed aside questions about Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin during appearances at New York City's annual Labor Day parade and later during a stop on Staten Island.

Boeing workers look toward a long strike

Frantic residents in the sprawling Manshiyet Nasr slum were digging by hand and trying to lift huge rocks to reach any survivors, shouting out the names of relatives and family members trapped below. Haidar Baghdadi, the parliamentarian for the region,

What happened seven years ago colors American life today. There are the two wars, of course. But in smaller ways, too: We sing "God Bless America" at the ballpark. We weigh "evil" as a campaign issue. We slip off our

We need a big game out of Roy," Cooper said before the game with the Colorado Rockies. "We need for him to give us back the momentum we lost in our loss on Friday."

He wanted to play football, but Freire, whose nickname was "Bones," weighed about 100 pounds — maybe a little more after eating his mother's freshly made tortillas. But instead of running up and down the football field, Freire ran through

Whetstone resident and horse owner Annette Gerhardt first learned about pigweed from her neighbors, who believe they lost two goats to the plant around this time last summer.

The epic nomination battle between Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton helped put millions more Democrats on the voter rolls while Republican registration declined. Now Graham, 45, has taken three months of unpaid leave from her job at Pittsburgh's

Preparations stretched more than 1,000 miles as the massive, 135-mph storm took a southwesterly shift that could send it over Cuba and the Florida Keys by Tuesday before heading into the warm, open waters of the Gulf of Mexico. And

Instead, he and his shipmates became pawns in a Cold War sideshow when North Korea captured the Navy spy ship and imprisoned its 82 crew members. Some still suffer the physical effects of torture or malnutrition they suffered during 11

Frank Busch, right, flew back Saturday from Las Vegas, where he was inducted into the American Swim Coaches Association Hall of Fame, to be honored again.

In a grim reminder of the problems awaiting Asif Ali Zardari, rescuers in the northwest dug with their hands for survivors after at least 30 people were killed in a massive suicide bombing.

Carpenter, a senior quarterback, threw for 345 yards and three touchdowns to lead the 15th-ranked Sun Devils to a 41-17 victory over Stanford on Saturday night.

Labor Day weekend, more than 200 of the Sosas' descendants came to a family reunion in the Old Pueblo.

Emily, Tucson

The Washington state resident hired a fishing guide to take him to uninhabited Little St. George Island, jumping out of the boat with his camera bag held high. He waded ashore to photograph the 153-year-old lighthouse, which was tilted and

King celebrates in grand style

She wasn't alone. By 6:30 a.m., there were about 60 families, armed with Starbucks coffee, folding chairs and reading materials, in a line that snaked around the side of the sprawling 20,000-square-foot complex at West River Road and North La