During Labor Day weekend, millions of Americans hit the highways to get to their weekend vacation destinations. But many Blacks who took to the road likely weren't wearing seat belts, and that's a trend transportation officials are looking to throw in reverse.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- When Mitt Romney and Rick Perry thumped their chests over their job-creation records as governor during the Republican presidential debate Wednesday night, they left the bad parts out.

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- For incoming freshmen at western Connecticut's suburban Brookfield High School, hefting a backpack weighed down with textbooks is about to give way to tapping out notes and flipping electronic pages on a glossy iPad tablet computer.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House may pull the Postal Service back from the brink of insolvency, at least for a few months.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The economy weak and the public seething, President Barack Obama is expected to propose $300 billion in tax cuts and federal spending Thursday night to get Americans working again. Republicans offered Tuesday to compromise with him on jobs - but also assailed his plans in advance of his prime-time speech.

ATLANTA (AP) -- The federal appeals court in Atlanta on Tuesday turned away the latest attempt by actor Wesley Snipes to get his conviction and prison sentence on tax charges overturned.

NEW YORK (AP) -- His family has his spare firefighter uniform, but not the one he wore on 9/11 - or any other trace of him.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Tuesday blamed illegal handguns for a shooting that killed three people and wounded two police officers a few blocks from the route of the annual West Indian Day Parade in Brooklyn, saying federal officials have not had the "courage" to take steps to control gun use.

ATLANTA (AP) -- Heavy rain from the former Tropical Storm Lee rolled northeast into Appalachian states Tuesday, spreading the threat of flooding as far as New England after drenching the South, spawning tornadoes, sweeping several people away and knocking out power to thousands.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- This summer's Las Conchas fire in New Mexico scorched tribal lands, threatened one of the nation's premier nuclear facilities and pushed bears into nearby cities. But it somehow spared more than 9,000 marijuana plants in a remote area of Bandelier National Monument.