NEW YORK — PepsiCo says it’s dropping aspartame from Diet Pepsi in response to customer feedback and replacing it with sucralose, another artificial sweetener commonly k...
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...
