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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…
Search ends for plane crash survivors
LUDINGTON, Mich. - Authorities abandoned hope Saturday of finding alive four people missing since a small plane plunged into Lake Michigan while flying a cancer patient to the Mayo Clinic.
Some insurers halt new coverage for kids
WASHINGTON - Some major health insurance companies will no longer issue certain types of policies for children, an unintended consequence of President Barack O…
Crews fixing well in 'cat-and-mouse' with weather
NEW ORLEANS - Crews hurried to get back to work on plugging BP's leaky oil well Saturday after Tropical Storm Bonnie fizzled, and engineers hoped for a window …
Wal-Mart to roll out smart tags on men's basics
NEW YORK (AP) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is putting electronic identification tags on men's clothing like jeans starting Aug. 1 as the world's largest retailer tries to gain more control of its inventory. But the move …
Historic Moulin Rouge tower demolished
LAS VEGAS - Workers on Thursday demolished the tower of the first racially integrated casino in Las Vegas, one day after city officials turned down an appeal o…
Attorney: 'Barefoot Bandit' just an immature kid
SEATTLE - His attorney says the "Barefoot Bandit," accused of dozens of thefts from Washington state to the Caribbean, is a likable but immature kid.
Man dons Darth Vader mask, robs NY bank
SETAUKET, N.Y. (AP) - Times must be tough back at the Empire.
Flight crashes in Lake Mich.; 4 missing, 1 rescued
LUDINGTON, Mich. - A pilot who volunteered to fly a man with cancer, his wife and a doctor to the Mayo Clinic on Friday was rescued by boaters in Lake Michigan hours after his small plane crashed into the water, au…
House pressured to pass stripped-down war measure
WASHINGTON (AP) - After a take-it-or-leave-it vote by the Senate, House Democrats face little choice but to drop billions in aid for schools, college students and others that they had hoped could ride on legislatio…
Obama signs unemployment bill
WASHINGTON - Federal checks could begin flowing again as early as next week to millions of jobless people who lost up to seven weeks of unemployment benefits i…
Senate passes $60 billion war bill, kills House add-ons
WASHINGTON - The Senate passed a $60 billion bill to fund President Barack Obama's troop surge in Afghanistan Thursday night after rejecting more than $20 billion in domestic spending the House had tacked on.
Petition seeks to have wolves howl across US
BILLINGS, Mont. - Tens of thousands of gray wolves would be returned to the woods of New England, the mountains of California, the wide open Great Plains and the desert West under a scientific petition filed Tuesda…
Judiciary panel approves Kagan for Supreme Court
WASHINGTON - Pushing toward an election-year Supreme Court confirmation vote, a polarized Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday approved Elena Kagan to be the fourth female justice.
Cameron rebuffs US, says no new inquiry on bomber
WASHINGTON - Drawn into an old disaster, British Prime Minister David Cameron said Tuesday he would not order a fresh investigation into why a convicted bomber was set free or whether BP had a role in it. President…
Oil, gas leaking from cap
NEW ORLEANS - BP's broken well was leaking oil and gas again Monday for the first time since the company capped it last week, but the Obama administration's spill chief said it was no cause for alarm. The stopper w…