WASHINGTON — The Obama administration will give a new Treasury official power to reject executive pay packages at firms that receive government assistance and wants legi...
After five years that included construction delays and legal woes, Butler County officials this morning finally had a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new prison.
County ...
RECIFE, Brazil — Brazilian helicopters began ferrying bodies of Air France crash victims to shore for identification today while a pilots' union said the airline was rap...
WASHINGTON — U.S. authorities brought the first Guantanamo Bay detainee to the United States, flying him into New York to face trial for bombing U.S. embassies, the Just...
NORTH BERGEN, N.J. — Construction began today on the nation's largest transportation project, an $8.7 billion rail tunnel into New York City that is expected to reduce t...
WICHITA, Kan. — The family of slain abortion provider George Tiller said his Wichita, Kan., clinic will be "permanently closed."
The Tiller family said in a statement re...
WASHINGTON — Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor broke her ankle this morning in an airport stumble on her way to Washington to meet with senators who will vote on her...
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court today turned down a challenge to the Pentagon policy forbidding gays and lesbians from serving openly in the military, granting an Obama a...
WASHINGTON — Former first lady Laura Bush says she's pleased that President Barack Obama nominated a woman for the Supreme Court.
"I think she sounds like a very interes...
TOBYHANNA — A Pennsylvania state trooper is dead and a colleague wounded after a highway shootout with a man who had kidnapped his 9-year-old son.
The 31-year-old suspec...
