Updated: 5:42 PM The disabled cruise ship Triumph has entered Mobile Bay and is out of the Gulf of Mexico.

Posted: 4:22 PM Toyota says it will pay $29 million to 29 states, including Ohio, and American Samoa as part of a settlement related to its safety recalls.

Updated: 8:18 AM Oscar Pistorius has been charged with the murder of his girlfriend.

Posted: 8:31 PM American Airlines and US Airways will merge and create the world's biggest airline. The boards of both companies approved the merger late Wednesday, according to three people close to the situation.

Updated: 1:29 PM Los Angeles police say their department has returned to normal patrol operations, the day after a shootout and fire in the San Bernardino Mountains is believed to have claimed the life of former cop Christopher Dorner.

Posted: 9:56 AM The unofficial spokesman for the Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas has died of a heart attack.

Updated: 11:46 PM Republicans say President Barack Obama's second-term agenda will bring more tax increases and deficit spending, hurting middle-class families at the expense of economic growth.

Posted: 10:18 PM President Barack Obama is urging a divided Congress to boost job creation and strengthen the middle class through a package of government-backed proposals. In his State of the Union address, Obama is calling for increasing the federal minimum wage, spending more to fix the nation's roads and bridges, and expanding early childhood education.

Updated: 11:45 PM A source now says the man believed to be Christopher Dorner never came out of the cabin, before it went up in flames Tuesday.

Updated: 7:57 AM The American public will get rhetoric and imagery in President Barack Obama's State of the Union address.

Posted: 5:17 PM A government study says 20 percent of consumers had an error in a credit report issued by a major agency.

Updated: 12:34 PM Top Senate Democrats have prepared a plan to slice the Pentagon's budget by $3 billion a year in an attempt to avoid far steeper cuts this year that defense hawks warn would cripple the military.

Updated: 12:36 PM The government says it recovered almost $8 for each dollar it spent investigating health care fraud over the past three years, including a record $4.2 billion last year.

Posted: 11:04 AM Former Republican Party of Florida chairman Jim Greer pleaded guilty to theft and money laundering just before jury selection in his criminal trial got under way.

Posted: 10:30 AM A top Democrat says the automatic spending cuts set to take effect were meant as a threat, not a strategy.

Posted: 5:55 PM The massive snowstorm that swept across the Northeast has knocked out power to almost 640,000 homes and businesses.

Posted: 5:49 PM Elton John still fills stadiums worldwide on his own, but he'll share the spotlight with a dozen other musicians at Sunday's Grammy Awards.

Posted: 5:44 PM The mayor of a southeastern Ohio town has resigned over accusations that she repeatedly called a gay police officer "queer" in front of his colleagues and created a hostile work environment.

Posted: 11:51 PM Property records show that the mother of a former Los Angeles police officer who's the target of a manhunt on a Southern California mountain owns a parcel of land there.

Updated: 4:14 PM Digging out is going more smoothly in some parts of the Northeast than others after a snowstorm shrouded the New York-to-Boston corridor in 1 to 3 feet of snow.

Posted: 5:27 PM A storm that forecasters warned could be a blizzard for the history books began battering the New York-to-Boston corridor Friday, grounding flights, closing workplaces and sending people rushing to get home ahead of a possible 1 to 3 feet of snow.

Updated: 6:57 PM Air travelers across the nation are facing a frustrating weekend, as hundreds of airports have canceled over 3,700 flights prior to the arrival of Winter Storm Nemo.

Posted: 9:43 AM A power company says the cause of the Super Bowl blackout was a faulty device.

Posted: 11:50 PM Blizzard warnings and forecasts of potentially record-breaking snow from New York City to New England are being taken very seriously.

Updated: 4:25 PM Deep-fried foods may be causing trouble in the Deep South. A study finds that people who consume a lot of fried foods and drinks like sweet tea and soda were 41 percent more likely to suffer a stroke than people who ate that way about once a month.