CHICAGO | When Tammy Rothwell started taking a prescription drug called Mirapex for the symptoms of her Parkinson’s disease, she thought she had finally found peace after 25 years.
AUSTIN, Texas | Texas utility officials gave preliminary approval Thursday for what experts say is the biggest investment in the clean and renewable energy in U.S. history.
WASHINGTON | Former Vice President Al Gore called Thursday for a “man on the moon” effort to switch all of the nation’s electricity production to carbon-free sources within 10 years.
Former attorney general John Ashcroft defended his approach to forestalling terrorist attacks Thursday. But Ashcroft told lawmakers that he moved quickly to respond to concerns that some Justice Department memos employed shoddy reasoning.
WASHINGTON | A government-backed study released Thursday says America could nearly eliminate its need for gasoline for cars, pickups and SUVs by 2050.
WASHINGTON | The South tips the scales again as the nation’s fattest region, according to a new government survey.
“I think the American people have had enough of inflexibility and stubbornness in national security policy,” said John McCain’s foreign policy adviser, Randy Scheunemann.
GORHAM, Maine | A woman got the shock of her life when she found an 8-foot snake mixed in with clothes in her washing machine. The snake, identified as a reticulated python, got into the water pipes of Mara Ranger’s 1800s-era farmhouse and slithered into the machine.
ALICE, Texas | A former south Texas mayor accused of secretly keeping her neighbors’ dog after telling them the pet died has reached a plea deal.
“When I picked up my newspaper yesterday, I thought I woke up in France. But, no, it turned out it was socialism here in the United States.” — Sen. Jim Bunning of Kentucky on GOPers breaking with President Bush on quick passage of a bill that would shore up mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. | Grave robbers, a curse of burial grounds for centuries, are back for new valuables: metal ornaments that can be melted down for quick cash as copper and other metal prices climb.
CHICAGO | So why did Officer Grace Delgado try to cross the road? To remind motorists that they must stop whenever someone steps off the curb into a crosswalk.
Thomas Hickman drove through New Mexico, police say, until his vehicle ran out of gas, The Dallas Morning News reported Wednesday on its Web site.
CHICAGO | An apparent malfunction in the heating and cooling system of a pool killed 16 stingrays at a suburban Chicago zoo, officials said.
A push by business groups to double the number of U.S. bachelor’s degrees awarded in science, math and engineering by 2015 is falling way behind target, a report says.
ST. LOUIS | When Anheuser-Busch executives announced a cost-cutting plan in June, they surprised analysts by not proposing to sell the company’s amusement parks and entertainment holdings.
WASHINGTON | The two major-party presidential candidates gave speeches Tuesday and sharply disagreed over military strategy.
SALEM, Ore. | So long, Cuckoo’s Nest. Oregon State Hospital, the mental institution where the 1975 movie “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” was filmed, is making way for a new complex. Most of the dilapidated, 125-year-old main building will be torn down and replaced starting this fall.
STROUDSBURG, Pa. | A 77-year-old woman was recovering at home after she pinned down a rabid fox and held it until help arrived.
WASHINGTON | Congress on Tuesday rejected President Bush’s veto of legislation protecting doctors from a 10.6 percent cut in their reimbursement rates when treating Medicare patients.
Liberal bloggers jumped on John McCain for telling the National Council of La Raza that he’d support the DREAM Act, which would let undocumented high school students gain legal status if they attend college or join the U.S. military.
A federal investigation of the nation's largest single-site county jail has uncovered serious sanitation and medical care problems, as well as violence against prisoners who clashed with guards or failed to follow commands, officials said.
Police searched Friday for the mother of a newborn brought into a hospital by a woman they say first claimed she had given birth, then said she had paid $1,000 for the child. Authorities are concerned that the infant's mother might be in danger or need medical attention.
The family of a North Carolina mother found slain near her suburban home says the culprit should speak up if the person has "a shred of decency."
The tomato scare may be over, but it has taken a toll - it's cost the industry an estimated $100 million and left millions of people with a new wariness about the safety of everyday foods.
Two years ago, New Hampshire refused to accept heating oil from Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, the pro-Castro U.S. critic who once called President Bush "the devil." But with fuel prices rising, well, free oil is free oil.
Citigroup has become the latest big bank to quell Wall Street's worries about a financial sector implosion, posting a $2.5 billion second-quarter loss that was smaller than expected.
For weeks - months - the price of a barrel of oil marches skyward, and gas prices at the pump soar to frustrating heights.
A former missionary turned police officer was shot and killed along with a suspect after police were called to a disturbance outside a downtown nightclub early Friday.
It's 7 a.m. in the marsh, and like some sort of cigar-chomping swamp cowboy, biologist Lindsey Hord is about to reach for something that could cost him a few fingers - or worse - if he's not careful.
Was slicing tomatoes from our menus worth it?
The Confederate flag that flutters 30 feet above one of this city's busiest streets still draws a mix of head shakes and shrugs from South Carolina residents.
Tropical Storm Fausto has neared hurricane strength early Friday in the Pacific, while Elida lost its hurricane status.
A federal jury has convicted a former Tennessee state senator for taking money from government contractors and lobbying for them while he served in the Senate.
The largest mobile crane in the nation collapsed at a Houston refinery Friday, killing four contract workers and injuring six others, a company vice president said.
Forecasters say Bertha has strengthened to a Category 1 hurricane in the open Atlantic, but poses no threat to land.
Two of California's biggest health insurers have agreed to collectively pay $13 million and reinstate more than 2,000 insurance policies to settle claims with the state that they illegally dropped policyholders from coverage.
The Wisconsin Humane Society says it will buy and close one of the nation's largest dog-breeding facilities.
For years, visitors wanting to see Denali National Park's grizzly bears, moose, sheep and caribou have had to ride school buses that polluted the air and spoiled the tranquillity with their noisy, carbon dioxide-spewing diesel engines.
The founder of a defunct Muslim charity has been sentenced to a year in federal prison for lying to an FBI agent about his travels to Afghanistan.
A tour bus went off a state highway near Bryce Canyon National Park in southern Utah, landing upside down in a creek bed and catching fire Thursday.
A man who was part of theft ring that stole $1 million worth of sculptures to sell as scrap metal has been sentenced to as many as 20 years in prison.
Luis Ramirez came to the U.S. from Mexico six years ago to look for work, landing in this town in Pennsylvania's coal region. Here, he found steady employment, fathered two children and, his fiancee said, occasionally endured harassment by white residents.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates lowered onto one knee to present the flag from the coffin of medical innovator Dr. Michael DeBakey to his widow, Katrin, at Arlington National Cemetery on Friday.
When Michael Richards stunned a nightclub audience two years ago by shouting the N-word at a black patron, Laugh Factory owner Jamie Masada was quick to join the Rev. Jesse Jackson in calling for a ban on the word's use.
The parents of a North Carolina mother found slain near her home tearfully asked Friday for the culprit to show "a shred of decency" by confessing, while her husband's attorney said he's an innocent man who wants to grieve in private.
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