A big and enjoyable part of the experience of walking across the United States from coast to coast is meeting with and talking to the people who live in those places you pass along the way, says long-distance hiker Bernie Goode of Tybee Island.

California health officials on Thursday unveiled the likely rates that insurers will charge under the health-care law backed by President Barack Obama — and they are lower than expected, rebutting warnings by critics that many people will experience "rate shock" once the law is fully implemented.

GRAPEVINE, Texas—The Boy Scouts of America threw open its ranks Thursday to gay Scouts but not gay Scout leaders—a fiercely contested compromise that some warned could fracture the organization and lead to mass defections of members and donors.

Accounts in name of Michael Thomas claim to have posts from Baltimore jail Corrections officials are investigating whether an inmate at the Baltimore City Detention Center has been using a contraband cellphone to post photos and updates on Facebook and Instagram online accounts.        

North Carolina is in the women’s lacrosse Final Four for the third time in four seasons. The goal now is to bring home the program’s first title.

How many people can be successful in life and say they never really had a job. Well, Denny Zimmerman can.