Idaho residents in rural areas would have easier access to healthcare under proposed legislation that moved to the full House on Thursday. The House Health and Welfare Committee approved the...
January 30, 2020
Top executives of most of Atlantic City's casinos say the city needs to become cleaner and safer, with a better public perception in order for business conditions to truly improve....
January 30, 2020
A pair of Utah polygamists teamed up with a California businessman with ties to Turkey to defraud the U.S. of nearly $500 million from a biodiesel fuel program because he...
January 30, 2020
A judge has ordered a lumber company to pay the state nearly $28,000 for timber harvested without permission from a state forest in south-central Iowa. The attorney general's office also...
January 30, 2020
Maryland will abolish the state's Handgun Permit Review Board, create a new oyster management process, and expand circumstances in which an undocumented immigrant is exempt from paying out-of-state tuition under...
January 30, 2020
Stepping away from his team of programmers, Miles Jacobson moves into a chair upholstered with a jersey from Premier League team Watford to talk — like so much of the...
January 30, 2020
“The Assistant” is one of the first narrative films to come out of the #MeToo movement and the Harvey Weinstein scandal. The film, written and directed by Kitty Green, features...
January 30, 2020
U.S. long-term mortgage rates continued to fall this week, breaching already historically low levels and offering an incentive to potential homebuyers. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday the average rate...
January 30, 2020
The Maine Public Utilities Commission on Thursday imposed what amounts to a penalty of nearly $10 million on Central Maine Power for billing problems and poor customer service. “Maine people...
January 30, 2020
A $45 million project to upgrade emergency radio communications system in Pennsylvania is on time and within the budget, but the purchasing process has encountered some glitches, the state auditor...
January 30, 2020
The dangerous virus spreading through China threatens a wide range of industries with ties to the world's second largest economy. Chinese authorities have cut off access to Wuhan, where the...
January 30, 2020
Louisiana's new legislative leaders quickly signed off Thursday on plans for the state to borrow up to $350 million to replenish the account that pays for state-financed construction work, the...
January 30, 2020
Major League Soccer and its players are extending their collective bargaining agreement for a week through Feb. 7. The league and the Major League Soccer Players Association issued a joint...
January 30, 2020
The Washington House has narrowly passed a measure that would require fuel producers and importers to reduce greenhouse gas emissions associated with gasoline and other transportation fuels. The measure passed...
January 30, 2020
Getting a new trade deal between the U.K. and the European Union by the end of the year — as the British government claims will happen — would be a...
January 30, 2020
Gov. Tim Walz and Minnesota House Democrats put the long-running dispute over insulin affordability back in the spotlight Thursday by unveiling a bill less than two weeks ahead of the...
January 30, 2020
Lawyers for a woman who accuses President Donald Trump of raping her in the 1990s are asking for a DNA sample, seeking to determine whether his genetic material is on...
January 30, 2020
Mexico's economy entered a recession in 2019, according to preliminary fourth quarter data released by the country's statistics institute. While Mexico had forecast that its economy would grow 2% during...
January 30, 2020
An Anchorage-based investment firm has purchased Alaska's largest economic research company. McKinley Capital Management LLC announced Tuesday it had acquired McDowell Group, which has operated in Alaska for nearly 50...
January 30, 2020
Spirit Aerosystems Chief Financial Officer Jose Garcia has resigned as the aircraft parts maker found it did not comply with its established accounting processes. Spirit said Thursday that it started...
January 30, 2020
New York state has set some of the nation's most ambitious goals on fighting climate change, but some activists say it isn't moving fast enough. Lawmakers holding budget hearings this...
January 30, 2020
As Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee's office sought to downplay potential consequences over an anti-LGBT adoption proposal, multiple big companies reached out to his administration warning the state's reputation would suffer...
January 30, 2020
Two new elementary schools may be built in Vancouver, Washington. The Columbian reports the school district announced it could construct the proposed downtown Vancouver Innovation, Technology and Arts Elementary Schooland...
January 30, 2020
The US is punishing Nigeria amid a current humanitarian crisis where the West African nation is grappling with a violent terrorist problem in the form of Boko Haram; a terrorist...
January 30, 2020
Conagra Brands will invest $106 million to expand a Tennessee food plant and add 400 jobs, the company announced. Tennessee Pride sausage and Sandwich Bros. of Wisconsin will be added...
January 30, 2020
China can't win in its battle with coronavirus – among Western media, anyway. If they impose a quarantine, it's “authoritarian,” a sign of weakness. If they don't, it's irresponsible, and...
January 30, 2020
Greece's parliament is set to ratify an agreement with the United States for a major expansion of military cooperation as it faces an escalation of tensions with neighboring Turkey. Lawmakers...
January 30, 2020
Western State Hospital, the state's largest psychiatric facility, is set to open a pair of newly renovated psychiatric wards to try and reduce by half the violence coming from a...
January 30, 2020
Grain futures were mixed Thursday in early trading on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for Mar. delivery lost 7.80 cents at $5.5560 a bushel; Mar. corn fell 4.60 cents...
January 30, 2020
The new illness that has emerged in Wuhan, China in recent weeks has created panicked headlines across the world. But as history has shown time and again, while the deaths...
January 30, 2020
Mainstream US media has long hinted that it finds ordinary Americans ignorant and easily-led, but lately it's been dropping the mask and letting the hoi polloi know what it really...
January 30, 2020
Bernie Sanders was endorsed Thursday by the 200,000-member American Postal Workers Union, an influential group that also backed the Vermont senator's presidential bid against Hillary Clinton during the 2016 Democratic...
January 30, 2020
European Union authorities have fined NBCUniversal for restricting cross-border sales of “Jurassic Park" toys, “Minions” school bags, “Big Lebowski" mugs and other licensed film merchandise, in the bloc's latest regulatory...
January 30, 2020
New drinks like Coca-Cola Plus Coffee helped Coca-Cola Co. to a better-than-expected fourth quarter. The Atlanta beverage maker said sales of fizzy drinks rose 3% for the quarter and 2%...
January 30, 2020
The Federal Reserve approved a proposal Thursday to loosen a financial-crisis era rule that prevents banks from investing in venture capital funds. The proposal would affect the so-called “Volcker Rule,"...
January 30, 2020
The two companies with state gambling contracts in Rhode Island announced a collaboration Thursday they say will maintain the state's gambling revenue, enhance competitiveness with Massachusetts and Connecticut, and keep...
January 30, 2020
Poland's president has signed into law legislation that is intended to contain the spread of African swine fever and allows three-year prison sentences for anyone convicted of interrupting organized hunts....
January 30, 2020
A cruise ship is holding a reported 6,000 people aboard after one passenger showed symptoms of Wuhan coronavirus. On Wednesday night, a 54-year-old Chinese national and her travel mate were...
January 30, 2020
Two Kentucky hemp companies, including one of the state's largest, are facing bankruptcy proceedings. Three creditors filed an involuntary bankruptcy petition against GenCanna in federal court in Lexington last week...
January 30, 2020
The Hummer, once a gas-guzzling target for environmentalists, is making a comeback. But this time around it won't burn fuel or spew greenhouse gases. General Motors announced Thursday that it...
