An Alabama utility is undertaking a $5.5 million water project designed to stabilize and increase the water pressure for customers and firefighters. Auburn-based ClearWater Solutions Inc. recently announced the upgrades...
January 25, 2020
Public negotiations over New York's budget are set to begin amid worries about another round of Medicaid cuts. Heads of state agencies, lobbyists and members of the public will start...
January 25, 2020
Law enforcement agencies in Indiana say a bill to prohibit drivers from using their cell phones in any way while driving would make the state's roadways a lot safer than...
January 25, 2020
A federal trial is expected to begin later this year in the case of a Michigan apple orchard owner who sued the city of East Lansing after he was not...
January 25, 2020
Ohio's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in December remained at the same level for the fourth consecutive month. State officials on Friday said the unemployment rate was 4.2% in December compared...
January 25, 2020
Drivers in New Jersey and around the nation are seeing prices at the pump continue to fall amid an increase in gasoline supplies and a drop in crude oil prices....
January 25, 2020
Home values were projected to increase by an average of 20% across most Detroit neighborhoods, according to Mayor Mike Duggan. Residential assessments for 2020 also show that property values are...
January 25, 2020
American seafood exporters are optimistic that a new trade deal with China will allow them to claw back into one of the world's biggest markets for lobster, but help might...
January 25, 2020
A House bill in New Hampshire would establish new regulations at restaurants regarding food allergies. The proposed law was inspired by the death of a 20-year-old University of New Hampshire...
January 25, 2020
A 45-year-old Portland woman has filed a lawsuit accusing grocer Fred Meyer of racial discrimination after she said an employee called her racist slurs. Melita Bullitt said in the lawsuit...
January 25, 2020
The story of a boy who grew up across the street from Abraham Lincoln's family and later presided over one the nation's larger retailers will be told in the annual...
January 25, 2020
New York's governor wants to expand the state's child tax credit to help families cover the costs of raising children. Gov. Andrew Cuomo's recently released budget proposal would expand New...
January 25, 2020
Under the neon Domino Sugars sign in Baltimore's Inner Harbor, a century-old refinery steadily produces the crucial ingredient in American candy, soda and other foods. The already busy plant soon...
January 25, 2020
Thirty gifted education students from across Cabell County put their heads together, with the buzzing of drones just inches above them, to solve real-world problems the morning of Jan. 21...
January 25, 2020
A startup company that wants to build electric trucks at a former General Motors assembly plant in Ohio is considering asking for a federal loan to get production up and...
January 25, 2020
Spacewalking astronauts worked to complete repairs to a cosmic ray detector outside the International Space Station on Saturday and give it new life. It was the fourth spacewalk since November...
January 25, 2020
From almost 500 miles away, a group of state employees based in Tallahassee would be responsible for enforcing Miami Beach's ban on Airbnb-type vacation rentals in most of the city's...
January 25, 2020
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and U.S. President Donald Turmp have discussed the security of telecommunications networks as the U.K. prepares to decide whether to allow Chinese tech giant Huawei...
January 25, 2020
Britain officially leaves the European Union on Jan. 31 after a debilitating political period that has bitterly divided the nation since the 2016 Brexit referendum. Difficult negotiations setting out the...
January 25, 2020
India and Brazil on Saturday agreed to boost trade and investment across a range of fields such as defense, mining, biofuel, cybersecurity, food, the environment and health. India's Prime Minister...
January 25, 2020
The hum of millions of locusts on the move is broken by the screams of farmers and the clanging of pots and pans. But their noise-making does little to stop...
January 25, 2020
Glancing to the left on his drive home on Jan. 6, the mangled metal of Sunset Auto Vue drive-in's collapsed screen was a difficult sight for Chris Wagner, who owns...
January 25, 2020
With sea level rise already lapping at its door, the city of Miami made its first significant commitment to address the root cause of climate change, not just the symptoms....
January 25, 2020
What does the word “Gasparilla” mean to people? Is it a parade of pirates firing cannons and hurling beads at hundreds of thousands of screaming partiers in Tampa? Or does...
January 25, 2020
COURTS NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The New Orleans Saints are going to court to keep the public from seeing hundreds of emails that allegedly show team executives doing public relations...
January 25, 2020
The death toll from a strong earthquake that rocked eastern Turkey climbed to 21 Saturday, with more than 1,000 people injured, emergency officials said. Rescue workers were continuing to search...
January 25, 2020
Germany's literary establishment has declared a moratorium on the phrase “climate hysteria.” No wonder “climate denial” is epidemic – there's no better way to convince people something's not real than...
January 25, 2020
Liberal philanthropist George Soros has pledged a billion dollars to set up a university network to fight nationalism. The enemies who hope his cause his causes die with him are...
January 25, 2020
The outbreak of a new virus linked to a wildlife market in central China is prompting renewed calls for enforcement of laws against the trade in and consumption of exotic...
January 25, 2020
A Rhode Island lawmaker proposed letting legislators and other officials tint their windshields to shield them from unhappy constituents. Rep. Anastasia Williams, a Providence Democrat, introduced a bill Thursday that...
January 25, 2020
Marvel's Hero Project is out to prove that superheroes live among us. One of those superheroes is activist, public speaker and high school student Tokata Iron Eyes of Pine Ridge....
January 25, 2020
Ava Wawroski is a busy 11-year-old. She plays piano (her favorite song is Queen's operatic rock ballad “Bohemian Rhapsody.”) She has her own business. She has seven pets — three...
January 25, 2020
Cattle perked up and started to moo as Matt Maier fired up his tractor to bring over a fresh roll of baleage for his herd. One frisky cow leaped behind...
January 25, 2020
Lona and Steve Thompson are in the middle of the queue Saturday, out in the nose-numbing cold for 15 minutes, not quite close enough to read the “People Hate Us...
January 25, 2020
A plan hatched between friends over a couple of beers doesn't always produce sane results. Take, for instance, an idea for a 5-kilometer race in the rural South Dakota town...
January 25, 2020
A pair of local investors are breathing new life into the heart of Waterloo's flourishing downtown entertainment district. Kade Hoppenworth and Dan Cooley are renovating a building at 300 Commercial...
January 25, 2020
Moscow has invited New Delhi to explore potentially lucrative oil and liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects in the Arctic. This could pave the way for India to be the first...
January 25, 2020
A pair of Stanford scientists have used physics to explain why American presidential elections since 1970 reflect a society barely holding itself together. Innovative science or study into the biases...
January 25, 2020
It started with one glass. On a trip to Tulum, Mexico, in 2017, Katie and Denny Culbert tasted a wine from the Baja California region. It was a natural wine,...
January 25, 2020
A table is set up in the corner of the room and holds several steam pans. Another is adjacent holding plastic containers of fiber reactive dye. Although the space is...
