CHESTER SPRINGS, Pa. (AP) -- A hot air balloon made an unscheduled landing and burst into flames in suburban Philadelphia Sunday evening, killing its pilot and injuring seven passengers....

KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) -- With powerful Hurricane Ike on an uncertain course toward the Gulf of Mexico, many on these low-lying islands took a wait-and-see approach to evacuating Sunday, perhaps a harbinger of attitudes to come from Gulf Coast residents returning from an arduous evacuation and already showing signs of "hurricane fatigue."...

MIAMI (AP) -- The National Hurricane Center in Miami says powerful Hurricane Ike has roared ashore in eastern Cuba....

CHESTER SPRINGS, Pa. (AP) -- A hot-air balloon crashed and burst into flames in suburban Philadelphia on Sunday evening, killing one person and injuring six others....

NEW YORK (AP) -- When reports circulated over the weekend of a last-minute deal to keep Coney Island's historic Astroland amusement park open for another year, owner Carol Hill Albert was not amused....

MIAMI (AP) -- This is where science meets human emotion. This is where a man walks into a room as a scientist, and walks out of it as a son....

HITCHCOCK, Texas (AP) -- A retired NASA engineer looking to develop an inexpensive way for people to travel to space might have to go back to the drawing board after one of his experiments exploded Saturday....

OVER LOUISIANA'S BARRIER ISLANDS (AP) -- The King Air climbed into the sky over the cypress and black gum trees in the Pearl River delta at the Mississippi-Louisiana border, and left behind a swampland thrashed and washed over by Hurricane Gustav's storm surge....

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A longtime power broker in Pennsylvania politics earned nearly $100,000 a year as a state senator, up to $1 million a year as a rainmaking lawyer and millions more from the sale of a family bank....

RENO, Nev. (AP) -- It's billed as "the world's fastest motor sport."...