A woman is suing the federal government over the 2018 death of her father from a wrongful insulin injection at a West Virginia veterans hospital. Melanie Proctor filed the lawsuit...
March 3, 2020
The legacy of Rosie the Riveter lives on at Riverdale Mills Corp. in the form of 4-foot-10-inch, but hard-as-nails, Pricilla Jacques. Jacques, who turns 62 in March, has been working...
March 3, 2020
Lawmakers in Georgia are broadly backing a measure to keep patients from receiving unexpected medical bills. The House voted 164-4 on Tuesday for House Bill 888, which would require insurers...
March 3, 2020
PUBLIC FORUMS: The 189-nation International Monetary Fund and its sister lending organization, the World Bank, announced Tuesday that they will replace their regular spring meetings in Washington with a “virtual...
March 3, 2020
The Augusta National Golf Club's footprint in Augusta continues to increase. A club-affiliated corporate entity has acquired more than $6 million worth of real estate in recent weeks, The Augusta...
March 3, 2020
South Dakota lawmakers and Gov. Kristi Noem floated vastly different cost estimates for legalizing industrial hemp on Tuesday, presenting a final hang-up to the resolution of their year-long dispute. The...
March 3, 2020
President Donald Trump isn't the only world leader making it virtually impossible for many Africans to get asylum in the United States. He's getting plenty of help from allies in...
March 3, 2020
Missouri shelled out more than $2 million last month to settle the latest worker discrimination case against the state's prison system. Richard Dixson, a white employee of the minimum security...
March 3, 2020
Togo's Constitutional Court announced final results Tuesday, confirming the country's president easily won a fourth term, extending the grip his family has had on power since 1967 as the opposition...
March 3, 2020
Georgia high school students are likely to face a cap on the number of college courses for which the state would pay. Representatives voted 103-67 on Tuesday to accept Senate...
March 3, 2020
Wisconsin Democrats are taking conservative state Supreme Court Justice Dan Kelly to task for holding a campaign fundraiser at a gun range after a mass shooting in Milwaukee. The Milwaukee...
March 3, 2020
The largest technical cheese, butter and yogurt competition in the world starts Tuesday in Wisconsin, with a record 3,667 entries from 26 nations. The 55 judges taste, sniff and inspect...
March 3, 2020
South Carolina House Speaker Jay Lucas brought a little bit of gray into the black and white process of deciding whether to sell state-owned utility Santee Cooper and the bidders,...
March 3, 2020
A company that makes automotive seating is planning a $38 million expansion that will triple the size of its central Indiana plant and bring with it up to 100 new...
March 3, 2020
A New Jersey man faces luring charges after he was captured in an online child predator sting conducted by a private citizen, authorities said. Phillip Stone, 33, of Lacey Township,...
March 3, 2020
Amazon Prime will stream 21 Yankees games to members in New York's broadcast market this season at no additional cost. The games are produced by the Yankees' YES Network and...
March 3, 2020
Federal regulators have approved a relaxed timetable for the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant to ship low-level radioactive waste. NorthStar Nuclear Decommissioning Co. requested an exemption from the Nuclear Regulatory...
March 3, 2020
Lawmakers on Tuesday expressed skepticism about U.S. health officials' claims that long-overdue testing for the new coronavirus would be widely available by the end of the week. Health officials have...
March 3, 2020
Wyoming officials have determined that an application for a permit for the state's first major new coal mine in decades is technically complete. The Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality's determination...
March 3, 2020
The Supreme Court seemed prepared Tuesday to preserve an important tool that federal securities regulators used last year to recoup $3.2 billion in ill-gotten gains in fraud cases. At most,...
March 3, 2020
Massachusetts State Police issued nearly 600 warnings to drivers caught using hand-held cellphones behind the wheel in the first week of the state's new distracted driving law, the agency tweeted...
March 3, 2020
Slovenia's lawmakers on Tuesday backed an anti-immigrant politician to become the new prime minister, setting the stage for the formation of a right-leaning government in the small European Union country....
March 3, 2020
Lawmakers are finalizing a $7.5 billion emergency bill to fund the government's response to the coronavirus outbreak, in a burst of bipartisan cooperation that's atypical of today's Washington. Sen. Chuck...
March 3, 2020
Peter Pan Bus Lines, a major Northeast carrier, will continue to allow federal immigration officials on its buses to conduct routine checks for immigrants living in the country illegally, saying...
March 3, 2020
The Supreme Court wrestled Tuesday with whether to make it easier for the president to fire the head of the agency that enforces federal consumer financial laws, a decision that...
March 3, 2020
Gov. Andy Beshear tried on Tuesday to jump start a bill that would prevent health insurers from denying coverage due to preexisting medical conditions. The bill's supporters said there's a...
March 3, 2020
A poorly-considered fix to prevent Syrian refugees flooding Europe has come undone for the EU as Erdogan opens Turkey's border to the west, with only Austrian Chancellor Kurz exposing Brussels'...
March 3, 2020
The Maryland Senate has voted to ban a pesticide that has been found to damage children's brain development. The Senate voted 31-14 on Tuesday for the measure, which now goes...
March 3, 2020
The publisher of John Bolton's highly anticipated memoir has pushed back the release date from March 17 to mid-May. Simon & Schuster cited the ongoing government security review of the...
March 3, 2020
It could soon be easier for power companies to use solar energy under a bill passed Tuesday in the West Virginia House of Delegates. Lawmakers voted 75-23 to approve the...
March 3, 2020
France requisitioned protective masks and sent tens of thousands of students home from school, Norway blocked 1,200 passengers on a cruise ship and Spain isolated dozens of health workers as...
March 3, 2020
A bill to allow sports gambling in Washington state, but only at Indian casinos, has been approved by a state Senate committee despite concerns about a controversial emergency clause attached...
March 3, 2020
The United Auto Workers is seeking $1.29 million for the Michigan vacation home of its former president. The Detroit News reports that the home's design plan included granite counters, stainless-steel...
March 3, 2020
If you're looking for respite from this winter's weather and news, you'll find plenty of peace and quiet in the spring offerings beginning to show up at home decor retailers....
March 3, 2020
As mass sexual assault scandals, some dating back decades, roil universities across the country, the schools are seemingly drawing from the same playbook in their responses. Whether a large state...
March 3, 2020
The Latest on Minnesota's primary election Tuesday (all times local): 10 a.m. Minnesota voters are making their voices heard in the presidential race as part of the Super Tuesday sweepstakes....
March 3, 2020
Grain futures were mixed Tuesday in early trading on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for Mar. delivery was up 9.8 cents at $5.34 a bushel; Mar. corn rose 12.2...
March 3, 2020
The first legal sales of marijuana in Maine are expected in June as the state and municipalities work on issuing licenses. A state revenue forecasting committee has changed the date...
March 3, 2020
Santa Fe has remained a tourist destination despite fears over the virus that originated from China, tourism officials in New Mexico said. Officials from Tourism Santa Fe, the city's convention...
March 3, 2020
French President Emmanuel Macron's government is set to push through divisive pension changes in the lower house of parliament amid protests from opposition lawmakers and labor unions. Thousands of people...
