MIAMI -- It all seemed frighteningly familiar.

The Heat survived the Indiana Pacers en route to its 2012 championship and the opening game of this Eastern Conference finals series had exactly the same feel on Wednesday at AmericanAirlines Arena. ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Before this three-game series between National League powers, Washington Nationals star Bryce Harper took to Twitter to express his excitement about facing the Giants in a ballpark that he called one of his favorite places to play...

PHILADELPHIA -- The images make a Flyers fan's heart stop: a flashy sports car belonging to the team's star player, mangled on the side of a road.

This time, thankfully, there will be no tears.

Flyers leading scorer Jake Voracek was involved in ...

CHICAGO -- Months of argument and anguish over Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's push for sweeping school closures came to a climax Wednesday as his hand-picked Board of Education voted to shut 49 elementary schools and transfer thousands of children ...

MIAMI--Gay activists gathered Wednesday in front of U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio's Doral office to protest the Senate Judiciary Committee's failure to include undocumented gay foreign nationals in a bipartisan immigration reform bill the panel approved ...

AKRON, Ohio -- The Akron school board has fired Melissa Cairns, a former math teacher at Buchtel Community Learning Center who had posted photos of her students' duct-taped mouths on her Facebook page in October.

Cairns, 33, had taught in Akron ...