Gas tax hike may be only solution
WASHINGTON — The roots of today’s transportation funding dilemma date to the 1990s, when the economy was roaring, deficits were shrinkin...
ROSEBURG, Ore. — All this barn owl family wants is the chance to raise their children in a stable home.
A 41-foot, 18,000-pound, coconut-crushing stable home that worker...
Patrick Dempsey is leaving show
NEW YORK — If you haven’t seen Thursday’s “Grey’s Anatomy” and plan to — spoiler alert!
Out of nowhere, the episode walloped viewers with ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — What better way to celebrate the Hubble Space Telescope’s quarter-century in orbit than with cosmic fireworks?
On Thursday — one day before the 25...
LOS ANGELES — An outbreak of canine flu has sickened more than 1,000 dogs in the Midwest, killing a handful and stirring concern among animal lovers nationwide that the ...
Westerners killed in drone strike
WASHINGTON — Two years ago, President Barack Obama stood before a military audience and spoke of the “heartbreaking tragedy” of accident...
This climb is different from 15 years ago
NEW YORK — Fifteen years after peaking during the dot-com boom, the Nasdaq composite has reached a new all-time high.
But this N...
HARTFORD, Conn. — Mary Doyle Keefe, the model for Norman Rockwell’s iconic 1943 Rosie the Riveter painting that symbolized the millions of American women who went to wor...
Ex-CIA chief gave info to lover
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Former CIA Director David Petraeus, whose career was destroyed by an extramarital affair with his biographer, was expect...
WASHINGTON — Prosecutors and lawyers for the would-be assassin of President Ronald Reagan are disagreeing over what conditions should be imposed if he’s allowed to leave...
