WASHINGTON — Airline passengers will have to leave their knives at home after all. And their bats and golf clubs.

NEW YORK — With the housing recovery gaining steam, Americans have more incentives to paint up, touch up and otherwise redecorate their homes. But there's no need to spend willy-nilly.

Setting bold new standards for digital searches, a federal appeals court ruled Friday that customs agents need "reasonable suspicion'' a crime has occurred before delving into the hidden files on someone's computer.

LOS ANGELES — Flyers reacted with shrugs but largely agreed with a new policy announced by the Transportation Security Administration that airline passengers will be able to carry small knives and previously forbidden sports equipment on planes.

NEW YORK — Shoes are having a 21st century moment as they've pushed from mere accessory to the center of the fashion stage.

Chandler teen Charles Malpica is getting an early present — a trip to Hawaii to swim with sharks, granted by the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

Imagine the cool orchid lei around your neck, the ukuleles strumming the "Hukilau Song," and your hair frizzing up all carefree in the ocean breeze. You could be getting off the plane in Honolulu soon.

By creating a niche pest and weed control business, Bug & Weed Mart owner Jim LaBrie has weathered the economic storm and the threat of big box stores for more than 30 years in the East Valley.

Pete Rose, baseball’s all-time hit king best known from the Cincinnati Reds’ “Big Red Machine” days and banned from baseball in 1989 for gambling on baseball including the Reds when he managed them, was scheduled to sign autographs for $70 a pop for a sports memorabilia shop at the Paradise Valley mall on Saturday.

Every time Karl Sup of Mesa is in Detroit for business, he stops by the black granite memorial near Interstate 94 and Middle Belt Road in Romulus, Mich. He’s there to remember a friend whose name is etched alongside with 155 others.

Planning to check out a movie this weekend in Chandler? Why not help out a student at the same time.

If you’re catching a flight at the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport in the next few months, give yourself a few extra minutes to find the new baggage claim area.

If you’re catching a flight at the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport in the next few months, give yourself a few extra minutes to find the new baggage claim area.

To tip or not to tip?

Five hospitals sit within an easy drive of my Indianapolis home. It’s comforting to know, considering that my wife will deliver our second child in late August.

Kids, do you have a school backpack beginning to attract dust in the corner?

It’s an American rite of passage: The family road trip.

It’s an American rite of passage: The family road trip.

The dilemma of losing one’s luggage is something we all hope will never happen. For some travelers, though, it becomes an unfortunate reality. But have you ever thought of how the luggage feels?

An influx of tourists and spring training fans are boosting traffic to record levels at the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport, which will swell with 150,000 passengers in March.

Boarding an airplane has never been safer in the U.S., but there are still some corners of the world where flying is risky, including Russia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Somalia.