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The Kansas Jayhawks are the men's NCAA basketball champions. Kansas beat Memphis 75-68 in overtime Monday in San Antonio. The Jayhawks last won the championship in 1988.

A voter-approved tax to fund new mental health programs in California is generating a lot more money than it was expected to. State finance officials say the tax will likely produce nearly half-a-bill

Nearly 40 percent of San Diegans don’t earn enough money to live here, according to a new report. San Diego is the 11th most expensive city in the United States. The County’s unemployment rate is at

The prolonged recession and rising unemployment are replacing toxic loans as the driving force behind foreclosures. Experts warn that some states -- like Oregon and Kentucky -- previously on the sidelines of the crisis may soon take center stage.

The great American highway of Jack Kerouac, Easy Rider and Thelma & Louise is becoming less crowded these days. Higher gas prices are changing the way we work, shop, play and go to school.

Searchers say they have found no sign of Steve Fossett after his single-engine plane disappeared in the rugged mountains and sagebrush-filled desert of western Nevada.

Duncan Hunter Redux

The government's drastic economic rescue efforts will eventually pay off, President Bush insisted, offering calming words to anxious Americans but no suggestion of a quick revival as Wall Street braced for another wild day. Home construction fell to the slowest pace since early 1991.

The Supreme Court is on its summer recess, but before the justices closed up shop, they decided a flurry of cases by 5-4 margins. Earlier in the term, they had achieved larger majorities in a series of cases. A look back at the court's term and at its prospects for the future.

David Halberstam, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, died in a car crash Monday in California. He rose to prominence during the Vietnam War and went on to dissect many of the institutions of America in the second half of the 20th century.