The 17.5 million viewers between the ages of 18 and 49 that tuned in constituted the smallest audience for the program in 30 years.

A 21-year-old Nacogdoches man will spend at least 25 years in prison in connection with a street racing accident that killed three people, including his cousin.

Baron Davis knew his tender hamstring would limit him, so Stephen Jackson took a huge load off Golden State's do-everything star. Davis and Jackson shot the ragtag Warriors right into the second round, capping perhaps the NBA's biggest playoff upset with yet one more memorable performance on their home floor.

A music teacher and former military code breaker says he has cracked a real secret hidden in the Scottish chapel that appeared in "The Da Vinci Code."

A proposal to raise the speed limit to 80 mph on Interstates 10 and 20 in West Texas, which appears on its way to approval, has met with mixed reactions. The item is on the Texas Transportation Commission's agenda for May 26, and could go into effect immediately after that, said Ted Houghton, an El Paso businessman who is on the commission.

Honda Motor unveiled yesterday plans for a big expansion with new factories in Japan and North America to meet record sales as Asian vehicle makers step up the pressure on embattled US rivals.

In what is believed to be the largest damages award concerning a defective car in the history of the state's lemon law, a judge has ordered DaimlerChrysler Corp. to pay two business partners and their attorneys more than $385,000.

Toyota is offering about 1,000 current and former paint shop employees $4.5 million in back pay in an attempt to settle a dispute over whether the workers at its Georgetown plant should be paid for the time it takes to put on protective suits and walk to their assembly-line jobs.

APPLE Computers has crossed the billion-song threshold at its online iTunes music store. The billionth song sold from the Internet music shop was "Speed of Sound" by the British band Coldplay. It was downloaded by a man in the US state of Michigan, according to Apple.

One of Ford Motor Co.'s hottest cars, the Ford Fusion, debuted on NASCAR's biggest stage Sunday and the Dearborn-based automaker is hoping that the old motor sports marketing adage -- win on Sunday, sell on Monday -- pays off after eight Fusions debuted in the Daytona 500.