6:21 PM, May 25, 2012
The conviction of a wrongly-jailed man was overturned by a judge this week. Now, Brian Banks wants a shot at the dream that the conviction 10 years ago robbed him of -- a shot at the NFL.
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12:48 AM, May 25, 2012
Bud has turned into a major hurricane off Mexico's Pacific Coast.
5:21 PM, May 24, 2012
An Ohio judge ruled Thursday that accused high school gunman T.J. Lane will be tried as an adult. Lane stands accused of killing three students and hurting two others in late February.
3:03 PM, May 24, 2012
A European auction house Thursday canceled the planned online sale of a vial containing dried blood residue said to be from Ronald Reagan after complaints from the late U.S. president's family and foundation.
11:50 AM, May 24, 2012
The federal government is predicting an near-normal hurricane season in the Atlantic this year, with anywhere from four to eight hurricanes forecast to form.
2:47 AM, May 24, 2012
The U.S. National Hurricane Center says Hurricane Bud has formed off the southwestern coast of Mexico.
2:47 AM, May 24, 2012
Pakistani intelligence officials say a suspected U.S. drone fired two missiles that killed 10 alleged militants in northwest Pakistan near the Afghan border.
2:21 AM, May 24, 2012
A fire on a nuclear-powered submarine at a Maine shipyard has injured four people.
2:20 AM, May 24, 2012
The State Department has launched a different sort of raid against al-Qaida, engaging in a cat and mouse game to replace anti-American al-Qaida ads on Yemeni tribal websites.
2:06 AM, May 24, 2012
Bluesy guitar man Phillip Phillips is the new "American Idol," defeating teenage songbird Jessica Sanchez.
1:28 AM, May 24, 2012
The jury has ended a fourth day of deliberations without reaching a verdict at the campaign finance trial of former presidential candidate John Edwards.
1:22 AM, May 24, 2012
Two congressional panels are reviewing Facebook's high-profile stock offering last week amid allegations that the bank handling the IPO may have provided only select clients with a negative assessment of the company.
1:18 AM, May 24, 2012
More high school students enrolled in math and science classes. Increasing numbers seeking online learning opportunities. Fewer wanting or able to find a job after school.
5:03 PM, May 23, 2012
Michael McKean, who played the lead singer in the movie This is Spinal Tap and Lenny on Laverne & Shirley, was injured when he was struck by a car in New York City on Tuesday.
5:00 PM, May 23, 2012
Hewlett-Packard plans to jettison 27,000 workers as the growing popularity of smartphones, the iPad and other mobile devices makes it tougher for the company to sell personal computers.
10:06 AM, May 23, 2012
A carry-out pizza chain is raising eyebrows with a planned promotion to give away thousands of large pepperoni pizzas to folks who order in Spanish.
1:03 AM, May 23, 2012
Some presidential primary voters in Kentucky and Arkansas are taking a swipe at President Barack Obama, denying the incumbent nearly 4 out of every 10 votes cast on the Democratic side.
1:03 AM, May 23, 2012
A white supremacist has been sentenced to 40 years in prison in a 2004 bombing that wounded a black city official in suburban Phoenix.
1:03 AM, May 23, 2012
A U.S. institute says satellite imagery shows North Korea is upgrading its old launch site in the secretive country's northeast to handle larger rockets, like space launch vehicles and intercontinental missiles.
1:03 AM, May 23, 2012
Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan says the prostitution scandal in Colombia last month did not result in a breach of national security.
1:02 AM, May 23, 2012
Massachusetts' top securities regulator has subpoenaed Morgan Stanley related to allegations that it gave some clients negative information about Facebook before last week's initial public offering.
1:02 AM, May 23, 2012
Former first lady Nancy Reagan suffered broken ribs in a fall and is recovering slowly.
10:59 PM, May 22, 2012
Mitt Romney has swept the Kentucky and Arkansas Republican presidential primaries, inching closer to the GOP nomination he is certain to win.
6:01 PM, May 22, 2012
Doctors should no longer offer the PSA prostate cancer screening test to healthy men, because they're more likely to be harmed by the blood draw - and the chain of medical interventions that often follows - than be helped, according to government advisory panel's final report.
5:06 PM, May 22, 2012
A federal administrative judge has ruled that POM Wonderful used deceptive advertising with its claims that its pomegranate juice could treat or prevent heart disease, prostate cancer and other illnesses.
12:59 PM, May 22, 2012
11Alive's Brenda Wood took on Knoxville resident Desmond Hatchett in Monday night's "Brenda's Last Word." Hatchett is the father of 30 children from 11 different women, and is now asking the state of Tennessee to give him a break on child support.
12:38 PM, May 22, 2012
Video of a North Carolina pastor preaching that gays and lesbians should be rounded up inside an electric fence is going viral on the Internet.
10:55 AM, May 22, 2012
A new era in space exploration dawned Tuesday as a slender rocket powered into the dark Florida sky before sunrise, carrying the first private spacecraft bound for the International Space Station.
10:37 AM, May 22, 2012
Snapshots of how life has changed around Joplin, Miss. since last year's devastating tornado.
2:48 AM, May 22, 2012
A single-engine plane has crashed into a Southern California neighborhood, slicing through power lines but apparently not hitting any homes.
2:48 AM, May 22, 2012
A mountaineering official in Nepal says climbers have reported seeing another body on Mount Everest, raising the death toll to four for one of the worst days ever on the world's highest mountain.
1:02 AM, May 22, 2012
An extensive daylong search by the U.S. Coast Guard turned up no sign of six people who had radioed that their fishing boat was sinking in the Gulf of Mexico off Galveston.
12:59 AM, May 22, 2012
A federal administrative judge has ruled that POM Wonderful used deceptive advertising with its claims that its pomegranate juice could treat or prevent heart disease, prostate cancer and other illnesses.
12:54 AM, May 22, 2012
The Senate has approved tough new penalties on Iran aimed at thwarting its nuclear ambitions.
12:50 AM, May 22, 2012
President Barack Obama is defending his criticism of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, saying Romney's record at the private equity firm Bain Capital is rightfully part of the campaign debate.
3:32 PM, May 21, 2012
China's Dalian Wanda Group and AMC Entertainment announced Monday a $2.6 billion deal to take over the U.S. theater group, forming the world's largest cinema chain, according to a new release on the deal.
12:48 PM, May 21, 2012
Chrysler Group is recalling about 68,000 Jeep Wrangers in the U.S. for a problem that has lead to fires in some cases.
6:41 AM, May 21, 2012
11Alive speaks to a third person in the Southeast, the second in Georgia, who is fighting a flesh eating bacterial infection.
2:38 AM, May 21, 2012
Law schools in Michigan and Illinois have just released a painstaking compilation of statistics that show more than 2,000 exonerations of people who have been wrongly convicted of serious crime.
1:25 AM, May 21, 2012
Officials say a riot at a privately run federal prison in southwest Mississippi that left one guard dead and five other correctional officers and an inmate injured has been brought under control.