Tony Stewart passed Jimmie Johnson on a restart with three laps to go Sunday and surged into contention for his third NASCAR Sprint Cup championship with three races remaining.
Then, Stewart playfully called out points leader Carl Edwards in a duel (...)
Kevin Harvick stormed into the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship by winning at Richmond International Raceway Saturday night.
The victory moved him into a tie with rival Kyle Busch at the top of the championship standings.
The 10-race Chase (...)
When Michael McDowell pulled in front of Tony Stewart during Friday's practice session at Richmond International Raceway, it ruined Stewart's mock qualifying run, maybe his mood, too.
Two-time NASCAR champion Stewart, who finished the practice (...)
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell says the league wants to test players for human growth hormone “to protect the integrity of our game.”
In an interview with The Associated Press while riding with former NFL coach and TV broadcaster John Madden on the (...)
A team of scientists will launch an expedition to the Titanic next month to assess the deteriorating condition of the world's most famous shipwreck and create a detailed three-dimensional map that will “virtually raise the Titanic” for the (...)
Doctors at a small practice in Virginia got a big surprise when a tennis ball-sized meteorite punched a hole through their roof. No one was injured.
Dr. Frank Ciampi says the rock struck the two-story building around 5:30 P.M. Monday in Lorton, (...)
rights group is pulling an ad campaign that used the likeness of first lady Michelle Obama without her permission.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals used photos of Mrs. Obama in an anti-fur campaign because the first lady does not wear (...)
The company that has exclusive rights to salvage the Titanic is planning a possible expedition to the world's most famous shipwreck in 2010.
The first expedition to the North Atlantic wreck site since 2004 is revealed in a filing by RMS Titanic (...)
ranked Virginia Tech harassed Miami quarterback Jacory Harris and dominated the No. 9 Hurricanes 31-7 in a downpour in college football Saturday.
Miami, ranked in the top 10 for the first since 2005, had given Harris all kinds of time in beating (...)
Officials have granted a zoning exemption that will allow a Saudi-funded academy to expand its campus.
The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, which voted 6-4 Monday to grant the exemption, emphasized that the decision was made on zoning (...)
More than two years since leaving her prison cell, the woman who became the grinning face of the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal spends most of her days confined to the four walls of her home.
Former Army reservist Lynndie England hasn't landed a (...)
Colleen Delsack is a 47-year-old mother who can't seem to find a steady job, and she worries that her age may have something to do with it.
So she joined dozens of other unemployed workers Friday to take advantage of free Botox wrinkle injections (...)
Tour rookie David Horsey, Anthony Wall and Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano shot five-under 67s to share the lead in the BMW PGA Championship on Thursday after some big names faltered early in the first round.
Both Englishmen birdied four holes on the (...)
An Islamic school in northern Virginia with close ties to the government of Saudi Arabia has revised its religious textbooks to try to end years of criticism that the school fosters hatred and intolerance.
The Islamic Saudi Academy has deleted some (...)