DANBURY, Conn. — The founder of America's leading supplier of body armor to the U.S. military has died in prison while serving a 17-year sentence for running a stock fra...
Researcher plunges to death in crevasse
ORONO, Maine — The University of Maine is holding a memorial this week for a professor who plunged into a 100-foot crevasse i...
WASHINGTON — No matter who wins the presidency, women and minorities are poised to make gains in the next Congress. The offspring of two pillars of the Washington establ...
LOS ANGELES — Norman Brokaw, a trailblazing talent agent who represented Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Clint Eastwood and other top Hollywood stars, has died at 89.
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Santa Rosa, Calif. — California water agencies that spent more than $350 million in the last two years of drought to pay property owners to rip out water-slurping lawns ...
Show canceled for investigation
NEW YORK — A powdery substance a man sprinkled into the orchestra pit at New York's Metropolitan Opera may have been an opera lover's ash...
STOKESDALE, N.C. — A van carrying a Virginia church group crashed into an SUV that crossed into its lane on a North Carolina highway early Sunday, sending 17 people to h...
PORTLAND, Ore. — The stunning acquittal of seven people who occupied a federal wildlife sanctuary in Oregon during an armed standoff raised fears Friday that the verdict...
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — For more than a year, Hillary Clinton has been a reluctant participant in the e-mail controversy that has dogged her campaign, responding defensivel...
Growth for year expected at 1.6%
WASHINGTON — The U.S. economy grew at a 2.9 percent rate in the July-September quarter, the strongest pace in two years, as the battered ...
