WASHINGTON — Just a quarter of this year’s high school graduates who took the ACT tests have the reading, math, English and science skills they need to succeed in colleg...
NEW YORK — Marian McPartland, a renowned jazz pianist and host of the National Public Radio show “Piano Jazz,” has died at the age of 95, NPR said today.
McPartland die...
SAN DIEGO — City Hall opened as usual Monday but Mayor Bob Filner was nowhere to be found, still out of public view as he tries to survive a recall effort prompted by a ...
DECATUR, Ga. — The superintendent of DeKalb County schools says police have a suspect in custody after reports of a gunman at an Atlanta-area elementary school.
Superint...
Butler police are investigating a shooting Monday night on the city’s east side that left one person seriously injured, authorities said.
The victim, whose name was not ...
A former Butler attorney this morning was sentenced to prison for nine to 18 months after being convicted of stealing more than $544,000 from three estates he settled.
A...
BUTLER TWP — A bear is wandering around West New Castle Road.
About 10 a.m. it was seen on the property of VA Butler Healthcare.
According to Chris Pritts, senior office...
PRETORIA, South Africa — The trial of double-amputee Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius on charges of murdering his girlfriend will begin on March 3, 2014, a judge ruled M...
CAIRO — Egyptian authorities are considering disbanding the Muslim Brotherhood group, a government spokesman said Saturday, once again outlawing a group that held the pi...
BOISE, Idaho — A wind-driven wildfire burned its way through sage and pine trees near the Idaho mountain resort community of Sun Valley as sheriff’s deputies expanded ev...
