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Tell me if this sounds familiar: You had a good lunch, maybe a sandwich or a salad, at noon and you felt satisfied. Well, you were for about an hour, but then around 2 p.m. you find yourself craving something else. It's ...

Disney and Pixar's big prequel to 2001's "Monsters Inc." came out last weekend. "Monsters University" had a great opening weekend debuting to $82 million. While most were excited to see the duo of Mike and Sulley (Billy ...

The Mazda 3 gets a thorough makeover for 2014 that promises to up its appeal with sophisticated styling, better performance and added efficiency.

Highly social lemurs are better thieves than their less-social cousins. On its surface, this isn't particularly surprising. The social intelligence hypothesis claims that the evolution of primate intelligence was driven ...

An all-but-confirmation by the president that the Federal Reserve chairman would not be reappointed at year's end complicated an already delicate task.

There are many ways to measure Tesla Motors Inc.'s remarkable progress in the three years since the electric-carmaker launched its initial public offering. There's the first-ever profitable quarter this spring.

FLITTING PRICES: Stocks ended lower after flitting between tiny gains and losses most of Friday as investors weighed statements from Federal Reserve officials about when the central bank might end...

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela offers a positive update on her former husband, as she thanks the media after visiting his bedside.

BlackBerry's earnings for last quarter are out. Here are the highlights: $3.1 billion in revenue Loss of $0.13 per share (A total of $84 million) 6.8 million smartphones shipped "Approximately" 100,000 PlayBook tablets s...

Apple is lagging Samsung with the iPhone. This technology could help put that right in time for Christmas.

Banks won't spend a tiny fraction of their profits on trying to avoid problems with fraud arising from recycled account numbers.When you lick a problem, you expect it to stay licked. Unfortunately, that's not always the ...

Planetary Resources, a startup that wants to mine asteroids for precious metals, is giving Earthlings a chance to to take "selfies," or photos of themselves, from outer space. Here's how it works: Planetary Resources is ...

In a huge upset, the Cleveland Cavaliers selected Anthony Bennett, a forward out of UNLV. This year's draft did not have a clear top pick although most experts had Nerlens Noel going to the Cavs with the top pick. The Or...

FLITTING PRICES: Stocks ended lower after flitting between tiny gains and losses most of Friday as investors weighed statements from Federal Reserve officials about when the central bank might end its support for the eco...

Though the Chicago area added 60,000 jobs in May, the unemployment rate climbed to 9.3 percent, according to the Illinois Department of Employment Security.

DETROIT (AP) -- Honda is urging the owners of more than 686,000 Fit and Jazz subcompacts worldwide to park them outside because the power window switches can catch fire.

Facebook says it will no longer allow ads to appear on pages with sexual or violent content, as the online social network moves to appease marketers being associated with objectionable material.

We're rolling into another big summer showdown at the box office this weekend. Channing Tatum and Jamie Foxx's over-the-top action thriller "White House Down" ("WHD") is going head-to-head with queen of comedy Melissa Mc...

Poor sales and large operating costs losses spell a dim outlook for the once very popular phone maker.

Two former convicts -- after serving time for separate murders -- are running a children's summer day camp at a North Carolina university.

NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg explains the experiments she is doing 240 miles above the Earth on the International Space Station -- including the effect living in space has on eyes.

The Feb. 15 Russian meteor event sent shock waves around the globe, the most powerful impact ever detected by infrasound stations.