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Every year, more than 3,000 people around the U.S. cut off their fingers or thumbs in table saw accidents, according to federal data. One entrepreneur created a device called SawStop that prevents such injuries. But mainstream tool companies have been slow to adopt the technology.

As police dismantle more of the remaining Occupy camps, protesters in Washington staged sit-ins at congressional offices. Now they're targeting corporations and lobbying firms on K Street.

President Obama's yearlong health care overhaul battle culminated in Tuesday's signing ceremony at the White House. But now that the bill has become law, the next big step is selling the sweeping changes to a skeptical American public.

Weak earnings from major U.S. companies and another drop in home prices drove stocks down on Tuesday. Falling home prices helped push stocks lower, as prices fell in 19 out of 20 cities tracked by the Standard and Poor's/Case-Shiller home price index in November.

Before GOP presidential hopeful Jon Huntsman served as governor of Utah, a corporate executive, and U.S. ambassador to China, he had another youthful calling: Huntsman was a rock 'n' roll musician in a band called Wizard.

Authorities seized nearly 380,000 marijuana plants so far this year from illegal indoor and outdoor grows in San Diego County, it was announced today.

San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders says the funding process for a new transportation center at the San Ysidro border crossing is moving forward. He has been in Washington, D.C. to lobby for the project.

The firing of Shirley Sherrod by the Department of Agriculture has reopened a sore spot with many African-American farmers who have been charging the USDA with discrimination for years. In fact, the USDA still faces thousands of discrimination lawsuits by minorities.

For the first time in almost a half-century, someone other than Joe Paterno is calling the shots at Penn State.

Baja California police say a man they detained who had a high calibre armor piercing gun offered officers $20,000 to let him go.