18 Jun. 20137:25 PM ET

DENVER (AP) — Radar indicated a tornado briefly touched down Tuesday over the east runways of Denver International Airport, where thousands of people took shelter in bathrooms, stairwells and other safe spots until the dangerous weather passed, officials said.

18 Jun. 20134:59 PM ET

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — In the decades after the Civil War, the nation's first black Army regiments guarded Yosemite and Sequoia national parks against poaching and timber thefts, a role that in hindsight made them some of the United States' first park rangers.

18 Jun. 20132:12 PM ET

CHICAGO (AP) — United Airlines is making it a little harder to get a higher frequent-flier status.

18 Jun. 20131:44 PM ET

LONDON (AP) — Womenswear and accessories like handbags may be the mainstays of the luxury goods market, but right now menswear is where the growth is.

18 Jun. 201312:08 PM ET

NEW YORK (AP) — No kids, one kid, four kids: There's no end to the debate over why people decide on a certain number.

18 Jun. 201310:59 AM ET

NEW YORK (AP) — Starbucks has a new way to wake up its customers: showing the calories in its drinks.

18 Jun. 20139:54 AM ET

LE BOURGET, France (AP) — Boeing Co. won major orders from five customers for a stretched-out version of its popular 787 Dreamliner jet at the Paris Air Show Tuesday, further evidence of a strengthening market for more expensive long-haul jets.

18 Jun. 20138:37 AM ET

LONDON (AP) — Prominent British art collector Charles Saatchi has admitted assault and accepted a police caution after published photos showed him grasping the throat of his wife, celebrity chef Nigella Lawson.

17 Jun. 201310:59 PM ET

NEW YORK (AP) — Legions of apartment dwellers will soon be asked - and may eventually be ordered - to start collecting food scraps for composting, under Mayor Michael Bloomberg's latest bid to make the Big Apple greener.

17 Jun. 20137:40 PM ET

LONDON (AP) — Art collector Charles Saatchi has been cautioned over a dramatic assault on his TV presenter wife Nigella Lawson captured by a tabloid photographer just outside a fancy London restaurant.

17 Jun. 20136:43 PM ET

DALLAS (AP) — Thrifty Car Rental says it's sorry, but many customers who were offered a free one-day rental won't be getting that after all.

17 Jun. 20135:18 PM ET

LUXOR, Egypt (AP) — Angry tourism workers and activists in Luxor threatened Monday to block a newly appointed Islamist governor from his office because of his links to a former militant group that killed scores of people in a 1997 attack in the ancient city and devastated Egypt's sightseeing industry.

17 Jun. 20134:35 PM ET

NEW YORK (AP) — Here's the latest goal for food makers: Perfect the art of imperfection.

17 Jun. 20133:32 PM ET

SEATTLE (AP) — For the activists who led the effort to legalize recreational marijuana in Washington state last fall, Jamen Shively was one of their biggest fears: an aspiring pot profiteer whose unabashed dreams of building a cannabis empire might attract unwanted attention from the federal government or a backlash that could slow the marijuana reform movement across the country.