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Tropical Storm Isaias is forecast to strike the US Gulf Coast as a hurricane
Government: Cellphone app makers are violating children's privacy rights
WASHINGTON - The government is investigating whether software companies that make cellphone apps violated the privacy rights of children by quietly collecting personal information from mobile devices and sharing it…
Gunman opens fire in Portland mall
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - A masked gunman wearing camouflage opened fire Tuesday in a busy Portland mall, leaving the gunman and two others dead and forcing the ma…
Stocks edge higher; Dow boosted by McDonald's
NEW YORK - Stocks edged higher Monday on Wall Street after a strong sales report from McDonald's offset concerns about the surprise resignation of Italy's prime minister. Investors also waited for developments in c…
Madoff trustee still pursuing assets
NEW YORK - When he was first told in 2008 about Bernard Madoff's epic Ponzi scheme, attorney David Sheehan had a response that now sounds inconceivable.
Unforeseen expense
WASHINGTON - Your medical plan is facing an unexpected expense, so you probably are, too. It's a new, $63-per-head fee to cushion the cost of covering people with pre-existing conditions under President Barack Obam…
'Skyfall' rises back to the top
LOS ANGELES (AP) - James Bond won a box-office photo finish with Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny over what looks to be the last slow weekend of the holidays.
Montana man killed in home invasion
DIXON, Mont. - A Thursday night home invasion left one person dead and another in critical condition near the small community of Dixon, Mont., along the Sanders and Lake County border.
Raising Medicare age has some trade-offs
WASHINGTON - Americans are living longer, and Republicans want to raise the Medicare eligibility age as part of any deal to reduce the government's huge deficits.
Washington: Legal pot, and plenty of questions
SEATTLE - People openly lit joints under the Space Needle and on Seattle's sidewalks - then blew the smoke at TV news cameras. To those looking to "get baked,"…
Firm hopes to sell $1.5 billion moon trips
WASHINGTON - Attention wealthy nations and billionaires: A team of former NASA executives will fly you to the moon in an out-of-this-world commercial venture c…
Michigan GOP approves right to work
LANSING, Mich. - Republicans slammed right-to-work legislation through the Michigan House and Senate Thursday, drawing raucous protests from throngs of stunned union supporters, whose outnumbered Democratic allies …
Survivor helps identify Pearl Harbor dead
HONOLULU - Ray Emory could not accept that more than one quarter of the 2,400 Americans who died at Pearl Harbor were buried, unidentified, in a volcanic crate…
Stores celebrate,but Powerball winners lay low
DEARBORN, Mo. (AP) - Missouri Lottery officials on Thursday verified one of two tickets that matched all six numbers to split a record $588 million Powerball jackpot, but that ticket holder - and another in Arizona…
Romney, Obama meet at White House
WASHINGTON - Three weeks after the election, Mitt Romney made it to the White House.
Positive signs
WASHINGTON - The U.S. economy grew at a 2.7 percent annual rate from July through September, much faster than first thought. The strength is expected to fade i…