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4 dead from storm as Isaias brings threat of floods across the Southeast
Despite warnings of life-threatening storm surges ahead of the storm, several major routes along the coast were op…
Energy breaks added to tax cuts bill
WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House and key lawmakers cleared the way Thursday night for swift Senate action to avert a Jan. 1 spike in income taxes for nearly all Americans, agreeing to extend breaks for ethanol and…
Elizabeth Edwards dies after long battle with cancer
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) - Elizabeth Edwards, who closely advised her husband in two bids for the presidency and advocated for health care even as her own health…
Analysts: Tax deal should help economy
WASHINGTON (AP) - The tax deal struck by President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans essentially gives Americans a pay raise - pumping money into the …
What should happen to the mother and grandmother of abused 2-year-old twins?
Obama, GOP reach deal to extend tax cuts
WASHINGTON (AP) - Brushing past Democratic opposition, President Barack Obama announced agreement with Republicans Monday night to extend expiring tax cuts for all Americans, renew jobless benefits and grant a one-…
Despite retirement, Blankenship to testify
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Massey Energy chief executive Don Blankenship is expected to honor an agreement to testify this month about the nation's worst coal mine disaster in decades despite his sudden retirement pl…
Average joes, celebrities welcomed at Elaine's
NEW YORK - Celebrities and bold names and the publishing elite made Elaine Kaufman's restaurant famous. But you didn't have to be a star to pass her personal t…
Cuomo finally gets a battle
NEW YORK - In his four years as New York's attorney general, Andrew Cuomo had his way with Wall Street, muscling banks and bankers into paying fines, making reforms and eating crow for their errors during the finan…
Unabomber's land for sale
LINCOLN, Mont. (AP) - A 1.4-acre parcel of land in western Montana that was once owned by Unabomber Ted Kaczynski is on the market for $69,500.
Texas judge to hold hearing on death penalty law
HOUSTON - In the deeply Republican state that has executed more convicts than any other and the county that has sent the most to death row, an unusual legal pr…
RV industry rebounding, led by smaller trailers
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - American families are ready to hitch up their trailers and tow the RV industry out of its worst stretch in nearly two decades.
Court to hear arguments over immigration law
PHOENIX - The impassioned debate over the nation's immigration policy takes center stage at the Supreme Court Wednesday in a dispute over an Arizona law that p…
Showdown may pave way for year-end tax deal
WASHINGTON - Senate Republicans derailed legislation Saturday to extend expiring tax cuts at all but the highest income levels in a political showdown that paradoxically clears a path for a compromise with the Whit…
Police search house near Corvallis Islamic center
CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) - Police investigating an arson fire at the Islamic center where the Somali-born suspect in a Portland mass killing plot sometimes worshipped have searched a neighboring home and taken cell sam…
Three key senators back deficit plan
WASHINGTON (AP) - Some of the Senate's staunchest conservatives and one of its most powerful liberals on Thursday swung behind a controversial deficit-slashing proposal from the leaders of President Barack Obama's …