Rebound expected as weather warms
WASHINGTON — The U.S. economy grew at a 2.4 percent annual rate last quarter, sharply less than first thought, in part because consumers...
GOP primaries to offer big test
WASHINGTON — The foot soldiers of the Tea Party movement dismiss the chatter about its demise and stand ready to use their unbending polit...
CHICAGO — Shannon Frauenholtz has had it with winter. Barely able to stomach the TV news with its images of snowbound cars, she heads to the tanning salon, closes her ey...
Polio-like paralysis affects 20 children
WASHINGTON — Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer asked the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday to initiate a...
Information is conflicting
WASHINGTON — It’s not clear there is a shortage of airline pilots even though regional airlines report difficulty over the past year in finding...
AUSTIN, Texas — A federal judge declared a same-sex marriage ban in deeply conservative Texas unconstitutional on Wednesday, but will allow the nation’s second-most popu...
Phone didn't identify location
LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles International Airport police dispatcher who received a call seconds after a gunman opened fire last year didn’t...
Controversial bill slapped down
PHOENIX — Republican Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer slapped down the right wing of her own party, vetoing a bill pushed by social conservatives t...
She testifies about interstate crash
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — Kerry Kennedy said she doesn’t remember anything that happened as she drove on a New York interstate one summer ...
DETROIT — A new winter misery index confirms what many Americans in the Midwest and East know in their all-too-chilled bones: This has been one of the harshest winters o...