U.S. spending on prescription drugs rises 8.5%
TRENTON, N.J. — U.S. spending on prescription drugs rose 8.5 percent last year, slightly less than in 2014, driven mainly b...
Losses climb to $4.6 million
FRESNO, Calif. — International crime rings targeting California’s booming agriculture industry are increasingly stealing truckloads of high-v...
About 15,000 water lines might be lead
ALLENTOWN — The head of a county water authority says as many as 15,000 water lines serving homes in one eastern Pennsylvania ...
Pa. Senate passes marijuana legislation
HARRISBURG — The state Senate passed medical marijuana legislation for the second time in less than a year Tuesday, and backe...
39,000 workers walk off job
NEW YORK — About 39,000 Verizon landline and cable workers on the East Coast walked off the job this morning after little progress in negotiat...
Link shown to decline in bees
DENVER — Amid ominous warnings about threats to pollinators and the food crops they make possible, garden-care giant Ortho said Tuesday it ...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The spirits company behind Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Whiskey is taking a deeper plunge into Kentucky bourbon.
Brown-Forman said Monday that Coopers’ Craf...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Jerry Brown on Monday signed into law a significant increase in family-leave benefits for Californians, marking the latest in a series of legis...
DETROIT — The 2016 Ford F-150 is the only full-size pickup truck to score the top rating in new front crash tests performed by the insurance industry.
Rival pickups fro...
But advances can be costly
Although the calendar tells us spring is here, the recent weather indicates it is still winter.
However, there was suitable weather for some e...
