WASHINGTON — A sweeping health overhaul bill has survived a major challenge from the left, but onslaughts loom from the right on thorny issues including abortion and ins...
WASHINGTON — Amid a crisis of low milk prices and mounting losses in dairy country, lawmakers in Congress are fashioning a $350 million emergency aid package aimed at he...
WASHINGTON — The 911 call was from a frantic passenger, trapped with family members in a runaway vehicle barreling down a California highway with a stuck accelerator and...
NEW CASTLE — The Lawrence County Commissioners will shut down the courthouse during Thanksgiving and Christmas weeks to save the county some money.
The commissioner want...
ADAMS TWP — The township supervisors Monday granted preliminary approval to an 80-acre residential development on Myoma Road.
The plan, called Wickerham Heights, is adj...
Premiums will shore up deposit insurance fund
WASHINGTON — The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is expected to take the unprecedented step of collecting billions of dollar...
CHICAGO — The company that added "venti" and "frappuccino" to American vocabularies is making a push throughout North America to convince connoisseurs to sample what man...
DES MOINES, Iowa — Every winter, airports across the country spray millions of gallons of deicing chemicals onto airliners and allow the runoff to trickle away. When the...
HARRISBURG — State airports will get $6.5 million for safety and facility improvements, Gov. Ed Rendell's office announced Friday.
Two of the 10 airports that will recei...
DETROIT — A global team of researchers has mapped the genetic code of the world's most popular vegetable — the potato.
The draft of the potato genome released last week ...