LAS VEGAS — Northern Nevada has long been known as home to the freewheeling counterculture Burning Man festival in the starkly beautiful Black Rock Desert. In the past f...
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — A federal judge is set to hear arguments today on comedian Bill Cosby’s request to have dismissed a defamation lawsuit filed by three women accusing...
WASHINGTON — You may not even know you are eating them, but trans fats will soon be mostly gone from your food. The Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday it will req...
Report: Wait lists for vets even longer today than last year
WASHINGTON — The number of veterans seeking health care but ending up on waiting lists of one month or more i...
WASHINGTON — Last month was the wettest on record for the contiguous United States, according to federal meteorologists.
On average 4.36 inches of rain and snow — mostly...
Oil, gas drilling sites studied
WASHINGTON — The more oil and gas companies pump their saltwater waste into the ground, and the faster they do it, the more they have tri...
It could be 6th mass extinction
Animal species are disappearing at an accelerating rate — portending the sixth mass extinction in the 4.5-billion-year history of the Eart...
Cybertheft adds to rocky relations
WASHINGTON — Tensions between the U.S. and China are growing over its island-building in the South China Sea and over suspicions that B...
LINDLEY, N.Y. — New York State Police are investigating a possible sighting of the two convicted killers who escaped from an upstate New York prison two weeks ago.
Two m...
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Friday proposed tougher mileage standards for medium and heavy-duty trucks, the latest move by President Barack Obama in his sec...
