Sarah Palin has been no friend lately of socialized health care.

The Iraqi prime minister’s coalition and its main secular rival both claimed to be ahead in the vote count Monday, a day after historic parliamentary elections that the top U.S. commander said would let all but 50,000 American troops come home by the end of summer.

Jason Heyward homered during a five-run first inning Monday and the Atlanta Braves went on to a 12-4 exhibition victory over the Detroit Tigers.

The Lady Mocs are dancing again.

The high-profile attorney representing Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger is disputing a woman's claim that the Super Bowl MVP sexually assaulted her at a Georgia nightclub.

President Barack Obama honored the national championship University of Alabama football team on Monday at a White House event where the president punctuated his remarks by declaring, "Roll Tide."

Katheryn Bigelow made history Sunday night when she became the first woman to win a directing Oscar for “The Hurt Locker.”

Want a tomato on that burger? Try again.

When Dr. Del Ashcraft sat down and grasped the two gamelike hand controls to perform his first robot-assisted hysterectomy at Parkridge East Hospital, he didn’t get up for more than two hours.

The Tennessee Department of Correction said Monday that state executions will be moved up three hours to accommodate crime victims' families, prison staff and the general public.

The Georgia Meth Project is launching a campaign to tackle the growing use of methamphetamine in Georgia, targeting teens who authorities say are becoming more likely to try the highly addictive drug.

FRANKFURT — German trade group ZVEI says the country's electronics industry's order intake is up 10 percent in January compared with a year earlier.

LONDON — The Wall Street Journal reports that a British agency is investigating whether Kraft Foods Inc. misled employees and investors about its takeover of chocolate maker Cadbury PLC.

FRANKFURT — German carmaker Audi AG says global February sales increased 20 percent on the year to 75,900 cars, with China and the U.S. showing strong increases.

PARIS — French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Monday urged developing countries to embrace nuclear energy and rich lenders to help pay for it, but stood firmly against countries that "cheat" and use the technology to make weapons.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Every time Wes Moore has reached the Southern Conference tournament finals, his Lady Mocs have won the championship.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio gasoline prices are up 8 cents from last week and are higher for the third week in a row.

MINNEAPOLIS — The Minnesota Twins will introduce the next generation of hot dogs for their fans at the team's new outdoors stadium on Monday.

President Barack Obama accused insurance companies of placing profits over people and said Republicans ignored long-festering problems as he sought to build public support for his stalled health care legislation.

Toyota is rebutting claims that the electronics of its cars and trucks are to blame for unwanted acceleration problems that have led to more than 8 million recalled vehicles.

FORT KENT, Maine — Despite warm weather, New Hampshire musher Matt Carstens set a blazing pace to win Maine's 250-mile Can-Am Crown dog sled race for the third time.

ESCONDIDO, Calif. — When 17-year-old Chelsea King went missing last month San Diego, Maurice Dubois had a sinking feeling that his 14-year-old daughter had fallen victim to the same killer.

Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger has hired a high-profile Atlanta defense attorney as police investigate a Georgia woman's claim he sexually assaulted her.

NEW YORK — Lil Wayne has agreed to go to jail in a gun case, but it has proven unexpectedly hard to put him there.

Police are searching for a man who used a stolen credit card number to make hundreds of dollars’ worth of purchases at the Shugart Road Walmart.

ASPEN, Colorado — Officials say a jet carrying 74 people made an emergency landing at the Aspen airport after smoke entered the pilot's cabin.

The Chattanooga Police Department unveiled its new armored truck for special operations this morning.

BOULDER, Colo. — The students in Michael Dubson's physics class at the University of Colorado fell silent as a multiple choice question flashed on a screen, sending them scrambling for small white devices on their desks.

Georgia redshirt freshman quarterback Zach Mettenberger was charged with underage possession of alcohol and two counts of disorderly conduct following an arrest early Sunday morning at Flip Flops bar in Remerton, Ga. The 18-year-old also was charged with two counts of possessing false identification.

Titans coach speaks at awards lunch

NEW YORK — American International Group is selling an overseas life and health insurance unit for $15.5 billion to MetLife as it continues to shed assets to repay billions in government aid.

CONCORD, N.H. — Among the 1.5 million condolence letters sent to President John F. Kennedy's widow after his assassination in 1963 were more than two dozen from Jane Dryden, a dogged and dramatic 11-year-old who churned out a letter a week for six months straight.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Pilot Travel Centers have added three more locations where Ethanol 85 can be purchased.

Katheryn Bigelow made history Sunday night when she became the first woman to win a directing Oscar for “The Hurt Locker.” Bigelow’s Iraq war drama also won Best Picture, beating out front runner “Avatar.”

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Wanted: A Victorian home around Nashville that can be destroyed.

GATLINBURG, Tenn. — The executive director of the Great Smoky Mountains Association has received an award from the National Park Service.

NEW YORK — Cablevision and ABC were negotiating a deal Monday that tentatively ended a dispute over fees and restored millions of viewers' access to the Academy Awards telecast in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut shortly after the broadcast began.

Kansas City was held up as a national example of bold thinking when it tried to integrate its schools by making them better than the suburban districts where many kids were moving. The result was one school with an Olympic-sized swimming pool and another with recording studios.

As Hillary Rodham Clinton was leaving the White House, she asked Laura Bush first lady to first lady to continue one program if nothing else — the historic preservation program Save America’s Treasures. Mrs. Bush said she knew about the project and pledged to see it through.

In private pitches to Democrats, President Barack Obama says he will persuade Congress to pass his health care overhaul even if it kills him and even if he has to ask deeply distrustful lawmakers to trust him on a promise the White House doesn’t have the power to keep.

To understand why jobs are so scarce, consider John McFarland and Nicole Rosen. The two share something in common: They’re reluctant to spend freely.

Mexico City’s police department has introduced a new lower-calorie menu in cafeterias serving its 70,000-member force after finding out that almost three-quarters of officers are overweight.

Iraqis defied insurgents who lobbed hand grenades at voters and bombed a polling station Sunday in an attempt to intimidate those taking part in elections that will determine whether their country can overcome deep sectarian divides as U.S. forces prepare to leave.

Two Pakistani officers and a government official said Sunday that an American charged with treason for working with al-Qaida had been captured, a development that could deliver another significant blow in the U.S.-led battle against the terror network.

Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin just might have a future in show biz. Teamed up to co-host this year’s Oscar broadcast, they offered a happy reminder that an often overstuffed, overwrought TV shindig can be lighthearted fun.

Suppose you had a job that paid you $300 a week -- but you spent $400 a week.

Chattanooga has no law setting a limit on what a towing company can charge for removing a vehicle from private property.

Red Bank cameras prevent accidents

So many frivolous lawsuits clog our legal system that it's sometimes hard to remember that some lawsuits are necessary.

An estimated 76 million people in the United states are sickened annually by foodborne illnesses.

It was wrong for baggage screeners at our nation's airports to be made federal employees, and there is no reason for those screeners now to gain collective-bargaining rights.

Posted to the Georgia Department of Corrections' Facebook page is a notification that says 13 people "like" the photo album of 143 cadets who graduated from one of the department's training classes.

It didn't take Jerre Haskew long to recognize that his younger brother Gary had a unique gift.

NASHVILLE -- Republicans Zach Wamp and Ron Ramsey say they are in the GOP gubernatorial race to stay, but each claims the same conservative base.

Hippies favored them in the 1960s. Medical professionals have been wearing them for years, and now clogs are the hottest spring shoes to hit the runways.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Ty Patterson arrived at Time Warner Arena on Sunday and grabbed a seat next to Chris Early.

For Carmen Mazariegos, limiting her daughters' television time has been as important in the United States as in her native Guatemala, although she admits it's easier here because of the number of educational activities available for children.

Efforts to provide Tennessee's low-income residents with free wireless phone service could help save lives in Chattanooga, one community activist said.

For those who don't know the difference between WD-40 and a W-2 form, the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program solves a lot of problems.

Considering the boys' high school basketball teams heading into state sectionals have played somewhere around 30 games already, bruised bodies and fatigue can be an issue for some.

CALHOUN, Ga. -- An old landfill here could soon find new life as a solar farm.

It didn’t take anything more than sunshine to nudge Lin Sanders and Tara Sylester outside their Middle Tennessee State University stomping grounds for a day trip to Chattanooga.

CLEARWATER, Fla. -- The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga softball team ended a disappointing weekend at the USF Under Armour Invitational with a 3-1 loss to Villanova on Sunday.

“I have loved fashion since I was a little girl playing with Barbie dolls."

HAMPTON, Ga. -- Kurt Busch was running out front with three laps to go when things really got interesting.

A Bradley County constable says five sheriff's deputies kept him away from a public rally because a friend's bumper sticker displayed a different candidate's name than the featured speaker at the rally.

Property owners in Spring City may see their water bills going up if they spring a leak.

Richard and Emily Glover of Brainerd and their 2-year-old golden retriever, Izzy, recently welcomed a new dog into the family.

A Swiss fisherman probably never imagined he was committing "torture" when it took him a 10-minute struggle to haul in a large pike. Unfortunately, he was in the one Swiss canton (something like a U.S. state) that actually pays a lawyer to represent anima

“I have loved fashion since I was a little girl playing with Barbie dolls.”

For his entire tenure as the region's chief criminal prosecutor, Hamilton County District Attorney General Bill Cox has relied on one thing to lure lawyers into the world of public service: the promise of higher pay.

Bring up the topic of sales, and you’ll likely get eye rolls from people who believe that “selling” is all about high-pressure tactics, telemarketing calls at dinner, pushy, plaid-jacketed liars and smooth-talking, slick-haired hucksters peddling snake oil out of their trunks.

Menisha Vinson, of Soddy-Daisy, was killed in a single-vehicle crash that four others escaped on Old Dayton Pike early Sunday, according to spokeswoman Officer Rebecca Royval.

Hamilton County Trustee Carl Levi will kick off his campaign for a third term today with a rally from 6 to 8 p.m. at the John A. Patten Recreation Center.

I’m starting to get quite aggravated. And it’s not my gums that are swollen.

Limitations to research on robotic surgery underlines the need for more large-scale, prospective studies that track patients afterward, doctors and researchers said.

ROSSVILLE -- Randy Bohanon said he's been approached by everyone from alumni groups to bluegrass pickers about using the old Rossville Middle School, but he can't have any events there until he patches a few leaks and finishes his paperwork.

There are no divas among the cast of “The 101 Dalmatians Musical,” but plenty of stars. Take Rascal, the puppy with a broken leg who was rescued from the side of a road.

It didn’t take anything more than sunshine to nudge Lin Sanders and Tara Sylester outside their Middle Tennessee State University stomping grounds for a day trip to Chattanooga.

Every time Wes Moore has reached the Southern Conference tournament finals, his Lady Mocs have won the championship.