WASHINGTON -- A bipartisan budget bill that would ease some but not all of painful budget cuts that would otherwise slam the Pentagon and domestic agencies passed a pivotal test in the Senate on Tuesday.The Senate advanced the measure over a filibuster threshold on a 67-33 vote that ensures the ...
NEWTOWN, Conn. -- A year later, inside the big house on Berkshire Road, dolls fill the shelves of a living room and flowers and rainbows decorate a kitchen window, next to a little girl's name: Avielle.Outside, all around town, Christmas lights shimmer again. But so, too, do the 26 bronze stars ...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Two New Mexico state police officers are under investigation and a mother and her 14-year-old son are facing charges after a routine traffic stop turned to chaos when the teen physically confronted one officer and another officer fired shots at a minivan carrying ...
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WASHINGTON -- Defending President Barack Obama's much-maligned health care overhaul in Congress, his top health official was confronted Wednesday with a government memo raising new security concerns about the trouble-prone website that consumers are using to enroll.The document, obtained by The ...
BELLEFONTE, Pa. -- A hearing on a lawsuit filed by the family of longtime Penn State football coach Joe Paterno began Tuesday as his relatives seek to reverse the NCAA's penalties against the school over the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal.The courtroom swelled with lawyers ahead of the ...
SAINT JO, Texas -- An off-road racing enthusiast has survived being struck by lightning twice during the same storm in North Texas.Casey Wagner said Sunday that doctors told him a tingling feeling would last for about a week.KTVT-TV reports Wagner was at an off-road competition in Saint Jo, 85 ...
OAKLAND, Calif. -- The San Francisco Bay Area's main commuter train system is running limited service Tuesday morning after a tentative deal was struck to end a commute-crippling four-day strike.Bay Are Rapid Transit tweeted that riders should expect up to 45-minute delays system wide as the ...
WASHINGTON -- Senate leaders announced last-minute agreement Wednesday to avert a threatened Treasury default and reopen the government after a partial, 16-day shutdown. Congress raced to pass the measure by day's end.The Dow Jones industrial average soared on the news that the threat of ...
WASHINGTON -- Fool's errand or heroic stand?The bipartisan compromise on Wednesday to avoid a financial default and end a 16-day partial government shutdown cast a spotlight on Republican Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas and Mike Lee of Utah, who had precipitated the crises with their demand that ...
