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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…
Residents rid grief on Katrina anniversary
CHALMETTE, La. - Hundreds of mourners dropped notes, cards and letters - many of them stained with tears - into a steel-gray casket on Saturday in a symbolic b…
Protecting our protein
FORT COLLINS, Colo. - Meatpackers, feeders and hundreds of ranchers from around the country packed a workshop Friday to voice concerns about a proposed federal…
Medicare expands coverage to help smokers quit
WASHINGTON - They've lived with the health warnings about smoking for much of their lives and doubtless seen the ill effects on friends, relatives and even themselves, yet about 4.5 million older people in the U.S.…
Engineers to remove temporary Gulf well cap
NEW ORLEANS - Engineers will soon start the delicate work of detaching the temporary cap that stopped oil from gushing from BP's blown-out Gulf of Mexico well and the hulking device that failed to prevent the leak …
Brewer condemns U.S. report to UN mentioning Arizona law
PHOENIX (AP) - Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer demanded Friday that a reference to the state's controversial immigration law be removed from a State Department report …
Birth rate falls to new low
Forget the Dow and the GDP. Here's the latest economic indicator: The U.S. birth rate has fallen to its lowest level in at least a century as many people apparently decided they couldn't afford more mouths to feed.
Top health official stops in Libby
LIBBY, Mont. - During the spring of 2009 when then-Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius had been nominated to head up the Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Sen. Max Baucus was among those first in line to set …
Migrants turn to sea to enter US illegally
SAN DIEGO - The speedboat is about three miles offshore when a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent cuts the engine to drift on the current in quiet darkne…
Feds: Don't tip off miners on inspections
WASHINGTON (AP) - Some mine companies are tipping off their underground workers before federal officials make surprise inspections, an illegal practice that ha…
A coincidence? You decide
WASHINGTON (AP) - Glenn Beck says it's just a coincidence his Restoring Honor rally on Saturday at the Lincoln Memorial will take place on the anniversary and …
Republicans' civil war continues
WASHINGTON - A Republican civil war is raging, with righter-than-thou conservatives dominating ever more primaries in a fight for the party's soul. And the Dem…
Economy headed down again?
WASHINGTON (AP) - It's starting to feel like another recession.
Elin finally speaks out
Elin Nordegren said she never had an inkling.
Vaccine could help prevent egg recalls
DES MOINES, Iowa - Low-cost vaccines that may help prevent the kind of salmonella outbreak that has led to the recall of more than a half-billion eggs haven't …
Drug war sends bullets whizzing across border
EL PASO, Texas - The first bullets struck El Paso's city hall at the end of a work day. The next ones hit a university building and closed a major highway.