Healing after surgery gets examined
WASHINGTON — One of the big frustrations of surgery: There’s little way to know if you’ll be a fast or slow healer, someone who feels ...
Bids are starting at $25,000
FORT WORTH, Texas — A rifle used in the 1966 sniper rampage at the University of Texas that left 16 people dead and dozens more wounded is be...
SEATTLE — The U.S. Forest Service is proposing permanent new rules that would require media organizations to obtain a permit to film and shoot photographs in more than 1...
Universities to feel impact
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is tightening oversight of high-stakes scientific research involving dangerous germs that could raise bi...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A powerful earthquake shook a large swath of Alaska Thursday morning, knocking things off shelves and causing people to take cover but bringing no im...
LOS ANGELES — When an earnest but sometimes inept talk show host took to public access television in 1978 with a celebrity name-dropping show, it seemed incongruous that...
Uninsured hospital admissions drop
WASHINGTON — The number of uninsured patients admitted to hospitals has dropped markedly this year, particularly in states that have ex...
HACKENSACK, N.J. — In study after study, as many as 8 out of 10 adults in America say spanking is an appropriate form of discipline.
What the studies don’t show is how p...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The old trunk was locked when it was found by auction house workers clearing a long-vacant home in Alaska that was about to be listed for sale.
The c...
WASHINGTON — After more than a decade of planning and millions spent to build a memorial near the National Mall honoring the late President Dwight D. Eisenhower, a key l...
