HELENA, Mont. — A wintry storm pushing through the western half of the country is bringing bitterly cold temperatures that prompted safety warnings for residents in the ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — CMT’s celebration of country music’s top artists of 2013 was a complete dude fest.
Whether it was saluting Tim McGraw as a more-relevant-than-ever tra...
WASHINGTON — With the advent of 3-D printers capable of producing plastic weapons, the House voted Tuesday to renew a 25-year-old prohibition against firearms that can e...
YONKERS, N.Y. — An engineer whose speeding commuter train ran off the rails along a curve, killing four people, experienced a hypnotic-like “daze” and nodded at the cont...
HARTFORD, Conn. — Recordings of 911 calls from the Newtown school shooting are being released, after a state prosecutor dropped his fight to continue withholding them.
F...
Bankruptcy case takes another turn
DETROIT — A judge has given Detroit the green light to cut pensions as a way out of the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history, a...
Class-action decision given
WASHINGTON — Employers can require their workers to sign arbitration agreements waiving all rights to class-action lawsuits over workplace gri...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The passage of a landmark bill to address Illinois’ worst-in-the-nation pension crisis means the yearslong fight over how to address the massive shor...
Site flaunts its hipster credentials
SAN FRANCISCO — Tumblr is where the Internet’s cool kids hang out. That’s why Yahoo paid $1.1 billion to buy the blogging site in one...
Pilots might be too reliant on technology
WASHINGTON — Pilots are becoming so reliant on computer systems that do most of the flying in today’s airliners that on the rare...
