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Search ongoing for missing medical flight from Bermuda to Boston as crews plan to scour ocean floor
Obama: Budget not 'ideal' but has 'tough reforms'
End of the line
A pale comparison
Discouraged Americans leave labor force
Stevens makes Mormon history
Ebert showed willingness to adapt to new media
CHICAGO - Roger Ebert started out as an old-school newspaper man, the kind that has all but vanished: a fierce competitor who spent the day trying to scoop the…
Michaels weighs in with a weight-loss book
NEW YORK - Jillian Michaels orders two eggs over easy with a smidgeon of oil and two slices of dry toast.
Elusive middle ground?
WASHINGTON - Seeking an elusive middle ground, President Barack Obama is proposing a 2014 budget that embraces tax increases abhorred by Republicans as well as…
Investigators: Killing suspect used detective's gun
JACKSON, Miss. - The police detective killed while interrogating a murder suspect at department headquarters in Mississippi's capital city was shot four times before the suspect shot himself in the head, authoritie…
Has NBC learned transition lessons?
NEW YORK - NBC's recent personnel transition in morning television was a disaster. Executives hope their luck is better late at night, and they have a year to try and make it a smooth handoff from Jay Leno to Jimmy…
NYC fast food workers picket for higher pay
NEW YORK - Hundreds of fast food workers and supporters protested outside New York City restaurants Thursday to demand higher wages for their low-paying jobs, including about 60 at a midtown Wendy's who chanted: "H…
Ebert, nation's best-known film critic, dies at 70
CHICAGO - Roger Ebert had the most-watched thumb in Hollywood.
Hold your fire
ALBANY, N.Y. - Gun enthusiasts fearful of new weapon controls and alarmed by rumors of government hoarding are buying bullets practically by the bushel, making…
Want a business that lasts?
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. - If you want to go into business during tough economic times, you might want to do it with family.
W.Va. sheriff killed, suspect in custody
WILLIAMSON, W.Va. - A new sheriff who was cracking down on the drug trade in southern West Virginia's coalfields was shot to death Wednesday in the spot where …