Firefighters reported more advances Monday against the Waldo Canyon wildfire, saying they've stopped the fire's growth and are working on putting out hot spots within its charred 17,920-acre footprint.

Now that the Supreme Court has given the states more flexibility concerning what parts of the Affordable Care Act they must implement, more Republican governors are confirming they plan to "opt out" of a plan intended to give millions of poor Americans health coverage.

About 1.7 million people are still without power in ten states and Washington, DC. More than 20 people are dead from storms fueled in part by the heat. (Photo from WJZ-TV, CBS Baltimore)

Microsoft spent $6.3 billion in cash buying online display advertising company aQuantive in 2007. The company wrote off almost the entire value of the acquisition, taking a $6.2 billion writedown on Monday.

Five years ago, the buzzing gadget was all the rage -- the rock star of mobile communication and seemingly every office drone's high-tech status symbol.

On June 28, 2007, Nokia was the top selling mobile-phone company in the world, people stopped working when they left their computers, Android phones didn't exist, and high-powered executives were addicted to thumbing on their BlackBerrys.

More than two years after releasing its game-changing tablet computer, Apple now actually owns the name "iPad."

Our electronic gadgets make life easier in a lot of ways.

Google Plus, Google's much-chided version of Facebook, celebrated its first birthday last week.

A former financial executive of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia has pleaded guilty to stealing more than $900,000 from the church.

Airbus made it official Monday, announcing it will build an assembly plant in Alabama to make passenger airplanes, giving the European aerospace giant its first foothold in the United States to compete with archrival Boeing (BA).

With the anniversary this week of Florida mother Casey Anthony's acquittal in the death of her 2-year-old daughter Caylee, Crimesider highlights some of the key moments in one of the most high profile murder cases in recent years.

A 26-year-old suspected gang member has been charged with first-degree murder and aggravated battery in the shooting death of 7-year-old Heaven Sutton who was gunned down while selling snow cones near her house last week.

Amid continued criticism from the left over the Obama administration's approach to drug enforcement policies, GQ's Marc Aminder reports that the president is planning to bring renewed focus to America's drug war if granted a second term.

In August of 1999, 14-year-old Nick Springer was given his last rites in a Massachusetts hospital. Doctors said the New York teen had a 10 percent chance of survival after he contracted a rare form of meningitis while hiking the Appalachian Trail during summer camp.

The health care debate sure has gotten complicated for Mitt Romney in the wake of last week's Supreme Court ruling on President Obama's signature health care law.

Former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno didn't play any role to interfere in or compromise the investigation of Jerry Sandusky's child sex abuse case, a lawyer for the Paterno family said Saturday.

Florida police arrested 33-year-old Alan Johnson and 37-year-old Jennifer Sparks for engaging in sexual acts with a 4-year-old girl after photos were found on a cell phone at a Walmart last month, CBS affiliate WTSP reports.

Ann Romney opened up to The Wall Street Journal and USA Today about her struggles with multiple sclerosis and the role the disease has played in the campaign of her husband, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney.

Central Florida basketball player Marcus Jordan, the son of former NBA great Michael Jordan, was arrested in Omaha early Sunday following a disturbance outside a downtown hotel.

The wife of U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, the soldier accused of leaving his southern Afghanistan base and murdering 16 unarmed civilians, believes her husband is innocent.

As we celebrate the Fourth of July, those usual patriotic impulses to buy cars made in America may run a little stronger. Happily, there are more good choices than ever of cars from U.S. automakers, assembled by American workers.

A military cargo plane from North Carolina has crashed while fighting a wildfire in the Black Hills of South Dakota, killing at least one of the six crew members aboard.

Firefighters in Colorado Springs, meanwhile, have gained ground on the huge wildfire that destroyed nearly 350 homes in Colorado's second-largest city.

Another round of powerful storms rolled through the Mid-Atlantic region overnight, ending a weekend of extreme weather that's being blamed for at least 17 deaths and that left more than two million customers in the eastern U.S. without power.