WASHINGTON – Former President Clinton said Sunday the Bush administration’s “enormous penchant for secrecy” sparked the strong reaction to Vice President Dick Cheney’s shooting mishap. “We have people quite often who are shot in quail incidents, so I didn’t feel the need to get into the pile-on,” Clinton said Sunday …

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Three teenagers accused in a series of brutal beatings that killed a homeless man and seriously injured two others the same night pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges of murder and attempted murder. In one of the attacks, captured on a university surveillance tape, two young …

NEW YORK – Reuven Frank, a former NBC News president and a pioneer of TV journalism, has died of complications from pneumonia. He was 85. Frank, who joined NBC in 1950, twice held the news division’s top job during his 38 years with the network (1968-73 and 1982-84). But it …

Being born with a low birth weight carries many health hazards, but those problems aren’t always the end of the story. Just ask Saroj Saigal, MD, FRCPC, of Canada’s McMaster University. Saigal and colleagues followed 149 babies born at extremely low birth weights into adulthood. “Our study results indicate that …

BELLEVUE, Wash. – Internet travel service provider Expedia Inc. (EXPE) said Wednesday its fourth-quarter profit declined in what the company called a “fiercely competitive environment,” and shares tumbled after hours. The company earned $25.2 million, or 7 cents per share, down 43 percent from $44.1 million, or 13 cents per …

NEW YORK – U.S. stocks rallied on Thursday, with the Dow hitting a fresh 4 1/2-year high, as computer and printer maker Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ) and retailer J.C. Penney Co. Inc. (JCP) after both posted earnings that beat Wall Street expectations. Shares of Hewlett-Packard, a Dow component, jumped 7.4 percent …

PARIS – Memo to fashion designers: The French aren’t quite as thin as you might think. French men and women are getting taller and heavier, and the average woman in France has gone up a dress size since 1970, according to a major fashion industry study released Thursday that measured …

FORT WORTH, Texas – RadioShack Corp.’s (RSH) embattled president and CEO, David Edmondson, resigned Monday following questions about his resume’s accuracy. The Fort Worth electronics retailer said that its board accepted his resignation and has promoted Claire Babrowski — executive vice president and chief operating officer — to acting CEO. …

A serious new vulnerability in Apple Computer Inc.’s Safari Web browser and new worms that target Apple’s OS X operating system have raised awareness of the growing number of threats to computers that do not run the Windows operating system. Security and anti-virus companies issued advisories Feb. 21 about a …

NEW YORK – U.S. chain store sales rose in the latest week for a second week in a row with a boost from intermittent spring-like weather, according to a report Tuesday. Sales were 1.5 percent higher in the week ended Feb. 25 after rising by 0.2 percent in the prior …