CHICAGO — A newly unveiled indictment against former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert accuses the Illinois Republican of agreeing to pay $3.5 million in hush money to k...
HELENA, Mont. — Hugh Ambrose, who wrote the World War II history “The Pacific” after years of researching for his father, the renowned historian Stephen Ambrose, has die...
Walter Byers, the first executive director of the NCAA who spent 36 years leading and shaping the organization that oversees college athletics, has died. He was 93.
Byer...
WASHINGTON — If honeybees are busy pollinating large, blooming croplands, farmers wanting to spray toxic pesticides will soon have to buzz off, the Environmental Protect...
Health care law debated
WASHINGTON — Obama administration attorneys are urging a federal judge to throw out an election-year lawsuit by House Republicans over the preside...
AARP survey forecasts shift
TRENTON, N.J. — Reversing a long-term trend, prices for more than one in four generic medicines widely used by older Americans increased in 20...
Historic flooding plagues Texas
WIMBERLEY, Texas — Deadly severe weather over the long holiday weekend tested government alert and evacuation procedures, as officials scr...
COLCHESTER, Vt. — A Vermont woman has been bitten by a black widow spider her family says was hiding in a bag of grapes.
The 21-year-old Colchester resident spent a nigh...
Survivors testify in trial
CENTENNIAL, Colo. — From the witness stand, Christina Blache could finally do what she had most wanted and most feared: She looked for the firs...
They were swapped last year for Bergdahl
WASHINGTON — A one-year travel ban is expiring for five senior Taliban leaders held in U.S. detention at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, un...
