WASHINGTON — Initial claims for unemployment benefits dropped more than expected last week but remain near a 26-year high.
The Labor Department said this morning that ne...
Oil prices tumbled to new four-year lows today despite OPEC's announcement of a record 2.2 billion-barrel crude production cut from OPEC, with markets already pricing in...
WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve today cut its target for a key interest rate to the lowest level on record and pledged to use "all available tools" to combat a severe f...
DRESBACH, Minn. — Authorities said an accident today involving two freight trains injured two people, set off a propane leak and caused some railroad cars to fall into t...
BAGHDAD — Iraq's parliament speaker says he's resigning after legislators argued about the journalist who threw his shoes at President George W. Bush.
Iraq's parliament ...
WASHINGTON — The portion of homes with cell phones but no landlines has grown to 18 percent, led by adults living with unrelated roommates, renters and young people, acc...
HARRISBURG — Gas and electricity shutoffs have soared since passage of a 2004 law that made it easier for utilities to stop service to nonpaying customers, but the law h...
BAGHDAD — The journalist who threw his shoes at President George W. Bush was handed over to the Iraqi judiciary, an Iraqi official said today, a move that ordinarily sig...
The nation's first near-total face transplant has been done on a woman at the Cleveland Clinic, the hospital announced this morning.
Reconstructive surgeon Dr. Maria Sie...
SUGARCREEK TWP, Armstrong County — Four fire departments this morning responded to a fire at 667 Glynn Road.
A spare room in the one-story manufactured home caught fire...
