Christmas tree ignited in fatal fire
MILLERSVILLE, Md. — An electrical fire that spread to a 15-foot Christmas tree prompted a blaze that reduced a 16,000-square-foot ma...
WASHINGTON — Sixteen million children were on food stamps as of last year, the highest number since the nation’s economy tumbled in 2008.
Numbers released by the Census...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California health officials Wednesday declared electronic cigarettes a health threat that should be strictly regulated like tobacco products, joinin...
It would give OK to force for 3 years
WASHINGTON — The top Democrat on the House intelligence panel is introducing a bill today to authorize President Barack Obama’s war ...
Majority would want assistance
WASHINGTON — More than 6 in 10 Americans would want Congress to restore federal financial assistance for millions buying health care covera...
WASHINGTON — The White House said Tuesday it is dropping a proposal to scale back the tax benefits of college savings plans amid a backlash from both Republicans and Dem...
Suits likely for years
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama moved Tuesday to open the Atlantic Ocean to drilling, beginning a mammoth battle over the environmental effects...
Retired leader still wary of U.S.
Retired Cuban leader Fidel Castro broke his silence Monday on rapprochement with the United States, giving guarded approval to the proce...
He lived in house built in the 1890s
RALEIGH, N.C. — Luke Martin Jr., the son of an ex-slave and Civil War Union soldier, has died — 179 years after his father was born.
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Civil rights protest led to movement
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Fifty-four years after they were sentenced to a month of hard labor in a chain gang for ordering lunch in South Caro...
