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Tropical Storm Fay churned off the coast of east Florida Thursday a day after dumping heavy rain on the state and causing Florida's governor to ask for federal aid.

Tropical Storm Fay moved off the east coast of Florida early today after spawning at least seven tornadoes, the National Hurricane Center reported. The storm is expected to get stronger and make a hard left back into the northeastern part of the state. "Looks like it could be a boomerang storm," said Florida Gov. Charlie Crist.

Kevin Kearney was harnessed to a kite along a Fort Lauderdale, Florida, beach Monday when strong winds caught the kite and slammed him into a nearby wall. He sustained spinal fractures, brain swelling, a broken rib and a broken ankle, among other injuries, but his mother says his condition has improved.

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Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, the first black woman to represent Ohio in the U.S. House of Representatives, died Wednesday from a brain hemorrhage, medical officials said. Tubbs Jones, who was in her fifth term representing parts of Cleveland and its suburbs, was 58.

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U.S. and Iraqi negotiators have agreed to a preliminary draft of an agreement on the future of U.S. troops in Iraq, a senior U.S. military official said.

The Clinton campaign's approach provided John McCain and his advisers with a road map for battling Barack Obama, and actually started them down that path, according to the Arizona senator's communications director in the 2000 campaign. It seems to be working: Polls show McCain has cut Obama's lead to a single point.

A police officer and two civilians subdued an armed man who drove to a California probation office with 11 crude bombs, 70 loaded magazines and more than 4,000 rounds of ammunition, police said.

The death toll after a Madrid plane crash has risen to 153, a Spanish government minister tells CNN+. The plane carrying more than 170 people went off the runway at Barajas Airport. The crash during takeoff reportedly followed an explosion on the budget airline jet, sending up a plume of smoke visible from miles away.

If you or a loved one develops pneumonia or has a heart attack and is taken to a hospital, do you know what the chances are of getting out alive?

A Florida man used facilities at the University of Miami to run a multimillion-dollar Ponzi scheme and recruited school employees for the operation, angry investors and investigators tell CNN.

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Workplace fatalities dropped in the United States during 2007, but the number of murders in the workplace jumped.

Speculation that Sen. John McCain is considering two men who support abortion rights as a running mate has sparked a backlash among social conservatives, including radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh.

While inmates in jails across New York pass the time by playing card games -- poker, gin rummy and solitaire -- they may also be helping crack cold cases.

The question is starting to feel a little old: Who will Barack Obama pick as his vice president?

Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones of Ohio -- a Democratic superdelegate and one of Hillary Clinton's most ardent supporters -- was hospitalized in critical condition Wednesday after suffering an aneurysm, the hospital said.

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We made it through the bursting of the Internet bubble and now the bursting of the real estate bubble. Next we may be approaching the end of the most worrisome bubble of all: the standard-of-living bubble.