New Year's Day

Twin mothers in Ohio give birth the same day

135 days ago

Aiden and Donavyn didn't wait until New Year's Day to come screaming into the world, but the circumstances of their births are still pretty special: The babies were born about two hours apart to...

NHL and players working with counterproposal and response

135 days ago

The presence of a deadline to potentially salvage a lockout-shortened NHL season spurred the league and the players' union into trading offers and engaging in real negotiations on the New Year's...

Despite deal, taxes to rise for most Americans

135 days ago

While the tax package that Congress passed New Year's Day will protect 99 percent of Americans from an income tax increase, most of them will still end up paying more federal taxes in 2013.

Not solved yet: GOP wants more cliff spending cuts

136 days ago

Maneuvered into a political corner, House Republicans sorted glumly through unsavory fiscal cliff choices in a New Year's Day struggle that wore into the night, casting doubt on emergency...

Many weddings as gay marriage becomes legal in Md.

136 days ago

Same-sex couples in Maryland were greeted with cheers and noisemakers held over from New Year's Eve parties, as gay marriage became legal in the first state south of the Mason-Dixon Line on New...

Young driver killed after losing control early Tuesday in Arlington

136 days ago

A woman in her 20s was killed early New Year's Day when she lost control of her speeding car, which slammed into a signal pole near the Shady Valley Golf Club in west-central Arlington, police said.

Georgia (11-2) vs. Nebraska (10-3) (ET)

136 days ago

GAME NOTES: The Georgia Bulldogs are set to meet the Nebraska Cornhuskers in the Capital One Bowl at Florida Citrus Bowl Stadium on New Year's Day.

Township fire in South Africa kills 3

136 days ago

South African media say three people died and 4,000 were displaced when fires swept through shacks in poor settlements in the Cape Town area on New Year's Day.

Texan Akeem Shavers finds home, success on and off field with Purdue

137 days ago

That Purdue enters today's inaugural Heart of Texas Bowl as prohibitive underdogs to Oklahoma State seems to be as appropriate as black-eyed peas on New Year's Day.

Column: An Orange Bowl date NIU couldn't turn down

137 days ago

Many college football fans will awake New Year's Day, glance at the TV listings, and then face a pressing question.

ESPN's Hannah Storm returns 3 weeks after accident

137 days ago

ESPN anchor Hannah Storm will return to the air on New Year's Day, exactly three weeks after she was seriously burned in a propane gas grill accident at her home.

Md. same-sex couples prepare for Jan. 1 marriages

137 days ago

Gay couples are preparing for New Year's Day weddings in the first state south of the Mason-Dixon Line to allow same-sex marriage, which will become legal in Maryland on Tuesday.

Watch Night, a black church tradition, turns 150

139 days ago

As New Year's Day approached 150 years ago, all eyes were on President Abraham Lincoln in expectation of what he warned 100 days earlier would be coming -- his final proclamation declaring all...

Lack of 'fiscal cliff' deal unlikely to put U.S. into a tailspin

142 days ago

The economic threat that's kept many Americans on edge for months is nearing reality unless the White House and Republicans cut a budget deal by New Year's Day.

Fun fact: Spend New Year's Day on the trail

142 days ago

Fun fact: Spend New Year's Day on the trail