NEWTOWN, Conn. — A single bell repeatedly rang a sad, slow beat Thursday at the Connecticut funeral of a 6-year-old girl killed by a gunman at her elementary school, while a cardinal in New York compared a slain teacher to Jesus for giving up her life to protect others.In Newtown, the site of ...
DES MOINES, Iowa — No snow boots needed in Milwaukee. Chicago commuters aren’t dodging knee-deep snow drifts frozen along city sidewalks. And children in Des Moines are settling for ice shavings dumped from a Zamboni.Many cities in the Midwest haven’t seen any decent snow this season — ...
PHOENIX — The other ticket holders in last week’s record $577.5 million Powerball jackpot have claimed their half of the prize but aren’t stepping into the spotlight just yet, the Arizona Lottery said Friday.The winning family opted to take the cash option of $192 million. They declined ...
SACRAMENTO -- A Sacramento federal judge has barred California from enforcing its new law prohibiting “gay conversion therapy” against two mental health providers and a student who are suing to derail the measure.U.S. District Judge William B. Shubb, who practiced First Amendment law before ...
WASHINGTON - For years, pro-immigration conservative activists have tried with little success to gain an audience with top Republicans in Washington.But since last month’s election, with the GOP’s dismal performance among Hispanics, that has started to change. On Tuesday, more than 250 ...
WASHINGTON - A group of senior retired generals and admirals are calling for Congress to amend a recent law that they say “dangerously interferes” with the ability of commanders to battle the epidemic of suicides among members of the military.Legislation added to the 2011 defense ...
WASHINGTON - U.S. teenagers should be given prescriptions for emergency contraception to keep on hand in case they ever need it, the American Academy of Pediatrics said.Emergency contraception, such as Teva Pharmaceutical Industries’s Plan B One Step, should be given to teens directly ahead ...
DETROIT — Only a couple of weeks after Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008, the man who would become his Republican challenger in the next election penned a New York Times column with a fateful headline: "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt."Those four words would haunt Mitt Romney across the Rust ...
NEW YORK— Residents of New York and New Jersey who were flooded out by Superstorm Sandy waited with dread Wednesday and heard warnings to evacuate for the second time in two weeks as another, weaker storm spun toward them and threatened to inundate their homes again or simply leave them ...
Among the notable presidential hopefuls in the crowd of more than 400 who formally have filed with the U.S. Federal Election Commission:-- Jimmy McMillan, from Brooklyn, N.Y., self-proclaimed standard-bearer of the Rent Is Just 2 Damn High Party, and his running mate, Vermin Supreme, whose ...
