The day after a judge ruled that flooding in two areas of New Orleans was caused by negligence, city residents were trying to decipher the implications of the decision.

The Department of Defense has identified 4,354 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war.

Prior to a climate change meeting scheduled for Copenhagen, industrialized countries, except the United States, are offering targets to curb greenhouse gases.

It was disconcerting to hear one of the top chefs in the Bay Area squeal like a child over a package of Filipino cheese cupcakes. But squeal Jennie Lorenzo did.

For 111 years, Stanford and Cal, which play on Saturday, have battled for supremacy on the football field. Still, there is more than one way to compete.

An underperforming school in San Jose sets high expectations, and students and parents respond with positive results.

As the city tries to find the way out of the financial abyss, its political system increasingly reflects the influence of evangelical churches.

The 212,000 square-foot data center will serve as a location for processing the the 2010 census form and also operate as a call center.

Increasing the levels of a message-carrying chemical in the brain may help prevent some of the memory deficits in Down syndrome.

Flights over much of the eastern United States were delayed by a failure in a communications system that takes flight plans from the airlines and feeds them to air traffic controllers.

People who heard specific sounds while sleeping had enhanced memories upon awakening, researchers said.

At hearings on Thursday, some senators characterized the suspect as a homegrown extremist who slipped past law enforcement and military authorities.

The Chicago Bulls’ record on their annual “circus trip” in the 10 seasons since Michael Jordan retired was 10-56 before their game Thursday night against the Los Angeles Lakers.

A line for a Chicago food pantry formed across the street from a seven-bedroom, seven-bathroom, 6,000-square-foot home with a two-bedroom coach house.

The delays came after the fourth major systemwide disruption attributed to a communications system that the F.A.A. put into service earlier this decade.

The delays came after the fourth major systemwide disruption attributed to a communications system that the F.A.A. put into service earlier this decade.

A federal judge ruled that the Army Corps of Engineers’ negligence caused huge flooding after Hurricane Katrina.

The government will apply high technology to H. R. Haldeman’s handwritten notes in an effort to fill in the 18 ½-minute gap in the Watergate tapes.

Colum McCann won for his novel “Let the Great World Spin,” while T.J. Stiles won in the nonfiction category.

President Obama sent Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to Afghanistan to press President Hamid Karzai to deliver “measurable results” in return for civilian aid.