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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…
Presbyterians split on gay-friendly measures
MINNEAPOLIS - Presbyterian leaders split Thursday on two gay-friendly measures, voting to allow non-celibate gays in committed relationships to serve as clergy…
Russian spies deported after guilty plea
NEW YORK (AP) - In the biggest spy swap since the Cold War, 10 Russian agents who infiltrated suburban America were deported Thursday in exchange for four people convicted of betraying Moscow to the West.
First relief well could be complete by end of July
THEODORE, Ala. - BP and the federal government are offering a ray of hope in a summer of setbacks for crews trying to stop the gulf oil spill: The first of two…
Judge halts Kootenai logging projects
LIBBY, Mont. - Federal District Court Judge Donald Molloy halted three Kootenai National Forest logging projects last week after ruling that the U.S. Forest Service failed to properly evaluate how the work would af…
Terror filled duck boat riders as barge approached
PHILADELPHIA - Sandy Cohen looked up from the deck of a small, amphibious tourist boat stalled in the river to see a barge towering three stories above and app…
Obama bypasses Senate on Medicare chief appointment
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama bypassed the Senate Wednesday and appointed Dr. Donald Berwick, a Harvard professor and patient care specialist, to run Medicare and Medicaid.
Barge upends tourist boat in Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - An amphibious sightseeing boat that stalled in the Delaware River was knocked over by an oncoming barge Wednesday, spilling 37 people overb…
More triple-digit heat has East sweating
NEW YORK (AP) - It's blistering. Scorching. Steamy. Brutal. Baking. Torrid. Ovenlike. It's run-out-of-adjectives hot.
Government sues to throw out immigration law
PHOENIX - The Obama administration sued Arizona on Tuesday to throw out the state's toughest-in-the-nation immigration law and keep other states from copying it.
Heat blasts East Coast
NEW YORK (AP) - The East Coast roasted under an unrelenting sun Tuesday as record-setting temperatures soared past 100 from Virginia to Massachusetts, utility companies cranked up power to the limit to cool the swe…
EPA targets coal plants
WASHINGTON - The Obama administration is proposing a new rule to tighten restrictions on pollution from coal-burning power plants in the eastern half of the country, a key step to cut emissions that cause smog.
Obama, Netanyahu say bond 'unbreakable'
WASHINGTON (AP) - Eager to show unity to the world, President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday dismissed talk of a rift as wildly unfounded, and Netanyahu pledged concrete, "ver…
Stamp prices going up again - to 46 cents
WASHINGTON (AP)- Buy those Forever stamps now. The cost of mailing a letter is going up again.
Drilling results: Mine's life could be expanded
TROY, Mont. - Exploratory core drilling has indicated that higher-grade silver and thicker veins of minerals exist in areas 1,120 feet below current Troy Mine operations, a finding that could eventually double the …
Oil seeps into Lake Pontchartrain
NEW ORLEANS - New Orleans, which managed to escape the oil from the BP spill for more than two months, can't hide any longer.