LOS ANGELES — At a time when audiences are shrinking for almost every type of television program, it stands to reason that producers and network executives would do almost anything to keep on the air a series whose audience is growing.

Call them the departed duo. Both quarterbacks. Both missed. More with each passing game.

Republicans have controlled the Pennsylvania Senate for most of the last three decades, and now they have new bragging rights: The Senate is the last state legislative chamber in the Northeast in GOP hands.

An anti-piracy watchdog group on Thursday welcomed an Indian warship's destruction of a suspected pirate vessel in waters off Somalia, where hijackings have become increasingly violent and the hijackers increasingly bold.

To borrow a phrase from the recent presidential campaign for local use, even if you put lipstick on a pig, it's still a pig.

A Florida man is accused of tossing a sandwich at his girlfriend as they cruised down an interstate, knocking off her glasses and nearly causing her to lose control of the car.

Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, a veteran of Capitol Hill and a backer of the Clinton administration's failed health-care effort of the early 1990s, is President-elect Barack Obama's choice to be secretary of health and human services.