An elephant calf that was believed to have died during a nine-day labor is feeding itself and has earned the nickname "Mr. Shuffles" since learning to stand, Taronga Zoo officials said Thursday.

United Technologies Corp. on Wednesday said its board approved a plan that calls for the repurchase of up to 60 million shares, worth about $4.3 billion at current prices.

E-mails turned over to the FBI and Senate ethics investigators provide new evidence about Sen. John Ensign's efforts to find lobbying work for the husband of his former mistress and could add to his legal problems, The New York Times reported.

A New Hampshire man has been sentenced to between 45 and 60 years in prison for raping a 15-year-old girl nearly two decades ago.

When former in-house defense attorney Dimitrios Biller resigned from his top post at Toyota, he walked out with something potentially more valuable than his nearly $4 million severance package.

Honeycreeper birds, a fly and several ferns, trees and shrubs found only on a Hawaiian island were among 48 species added Wednesday to the endangered species list, boosting the number of such classifications by the Obama administration from two to 50.

Two Marine Corps fighter pilots have been rescued from the ocean off South Carolina after their aircraft went down.

A Massachusetts philanthropist who gave away millions of dollars to meet medical expenses for needy people and paid for the separation surgery of conjoined twins has died. A. Raymond Tye was 87.

Only Ohio and Native American tribes in Washington and Oregon have so far met the deadline to comply with a federal law passed nearly three years ago to coordinate and expand sex offender registration nationwide, a U.S. Justice Department official said Wednesday.

They will be in preparation mode for their respective seasons, so perhaps it won't quite hit Jason Bay and John Lackey when they face off on Thursday afternoon in Port St. Lucie, Fla., how intertwined they were during the Hot Stove months.

Two Australian teenagers have been charged in a brutal attack in a Sydney train station on a Canadian tourist in a wheelchair.

A union representing New Hampshire's paid firefighters says it will file a lawsuit Thursday alleging that a nonprofit agency representing the state's local governments has misused taxpayer funds.

Former 1980s teen movie actor and heartthrob Corey Haim died early Wednesday, authorities said.

The Coast Guard plans to reactivate its Polar Star icebreaker by 2013. But first the vessel will be retrofitted in Seattle. The Polar Star is one of the nation's two Polar Class icebreakers.

Forbes magazine released its annual list of the world's richest people Wednesday, and for only the second time since 1995, Microsoft founder Bill Gates' name was not at the top.

The New Hampshire Department of Transportation says road work on Interstate 95 in Portsmouth will force lane closures and the closure of two ramps.

A federal judge who found it unconstitutional that Congress tried to cut funding to the activist group ACORN has rejected a government request to change her mind and has ordered government agencies to make it clear the funding isn't blocked.

The 62-36 roll call Wednesday by which the Senate voted to extend jobless aid, tax breaks to businesses and individuals and money to help financially strapped states pay for health care for the poor.

Police are asking for the public's help in finding a man who robbed and shot a New Jersey minibus driver, then stole the bus and ran him over, leaving him paralyzed.