ATLANTA — Griffin B. Bell, the shrewd Southern lawyer who grew up with Jimmy Carter and became U.S. attorney general after Carter was elected president, died today at an...
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Israeli warplanes and gunboats on Saturday blasted more than two dozen Hamas targets, including weapons storage facilities, training centers and ...
CHICAGO — President-elect Barack Obama on Saturday urged congressional leaders to move quickly on an economic recovery plan, even as some Republicans are saying they wan...
PITTSBURGH — An Allegheny County judge ruled Friday that money raised by a drink tax can only be used for the county's transit agency.
County Executive Dan Onorato had w...
HARRISBURG — State Rep. Daryl Metcalfe of Cranberry Township announced this morning he will run for speaker of the state House of Representatives when the chamber meets ...
ATHENS, Greece — Crewmen fired high pressure water jets today to fight off heavily armed Somali pirates trying to board a Greek oil tanker in the dangerous Gulf of Aden ...
DETROIT — GMAC will no longer have exclusive rights to provide low-interest loans to people who buy General Motors Corp. vehicles, and it will stop financing leases unde...
HOUSTON — Exactly one year after crude eclipsed $100 a barrel for the first time, 2009 trading began today with prices roughly half their year-ago levels, and some belie...
ASPEN, Colo. — Police say today the man wanted for delivering threatening notes to Aspen, Colo., banks had left four bombs made of gasoline and cell phones around this r...
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Israel assassinated a Hamas strongman today in its first assault on the top leadership of Gaza's rulers, escalating a crushing aerial offensive e...
