AP - Investors returned cautiously to the stock market Tuesday, wary about the downtrodden economy while trying to recoup some of the ground in the previous session's enormous decline. The major indexes fluctuated in late afternoon trading after giving up a big early advance.

AP - Chrysler says its November U.S. sales plunged 47 percent, blaming a slumping industrywide demand and a planned drop in fleet sales.

AP - Oil and retail gasoline prices dipped to new three-year lows Tuesday with the United States officially in a recession.

AP - A husband and wife have been charged with torture and other counts after a bruised, terrified 17-year-old showed up at a gym with a chain locked to his ankle, claiming he had just fled his captors, authorities said Tuesday.

AP - Doctors-in-training are still too exhausted, says a new report that calls on hospitals to let them have a nap.