Top Indiana Republicans are inclined to wait another year before further boosting school funding despite a Statehouse rally by several thousand teachers and state tax revenues growing faster than expected....
January 4, 2020
Drivers in New Jersey are paying a bit more for gas this week amid rising crude oil prices and a year-end spike in holiday travel. AAA Mid-Atlantic says average prices...
January 4, 2020
Last June, as the Illinois General Assembly wrapped up its spring session, first-year Gov. J.B. Pritzker was asked whether he would simply kick back and wait for his re-election campaign....
January 4, 2020
An overhaul of Michigan's auto insurance system topped the list of new laws in 2019. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and lawmakers also enacted a long-sought criminal justice measure and mostly finalized...
January 4, 2020
The Browns will meet with San Francisco coordinator Robert Saleh, whose defense dominated Cleveland this season. He's the fourth head coaching candidate to interview this week. Browns owner Jimmy Haslam...
January 4, 2020
With an aging fleet, fewer riders and major budget reductions, the Alaska Marine Highway System is feeling the hurt. Six of the state's 11 ferries have been taken out of...
January 4, 2020
Owners of Illinois glass pipe shops are elated to begin selling bongs after the state's law legalizing recreational marijuana took effect. Jeremy Sample, part-owner of CU Glass Connection, told The...
January 4, 2020
The legal age to buy tobacco products is now 21, but some Indiana retailers say they are unaware of the change. President Donald Trump signed off on a spending package...
January 4, 2020
Connecticut is on track to end the current fiscal year with a $28 million budget deficit, state Comptroller Kevin Lembo has projected. In a recent letter to Gov. Ned Lamont,...
January 4, 2020
Belarus has reached an agreement with Russia for limited oil supplies after Moscow earlier this week stopped supplying crude amid stalled talks on strengthening economic ties between the neighboring countries....
January 4, 2020
It's a new year, but many of the new bills being heard at the New Hampshire Statehouse look awfully familiar. Lawmakers return to Concord next week to begin plowing through...
January 4, 2020
Grace Brown's schedule at West Potomac High School in northern Virginia is filled with all the usual academics, and she's packed in Latin, chorus and piano as extras. What she...
January 4, 2020
In a shock turn, leftists have taken control of the United Methodist Church. They say they're fighting for minorities, but really they're doing what privileged liberal whites have always done...
January 4, 2020
Tesla plans to build half a million electric vehicles a year at its future factory outside Berlin. Planning documents posted online Friday reveal that the U.S. automaker wants to construct...
January 4, 2020
Virgin Trains finished November with almost 900,000 riders — less than half its initial projected estimate. But the company says it is still on track to its goal of 2.9...
January 4, 2020
Vogue Italia has produced its first issue of the new year and decade with an eye on sustainability, substituting fashion illustrations for photographs in an effort to reduce the environmental...
January 4, 2020
Ethicists and researchers have expressed outrage at He Jiankui's use of an experimental gene-editing technique on embryos that were allowed to become living children. But should medicine take bolder risks...
January 4, 2020
Spain's lawmakers debated Saturday whether to approve interim Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's proposal to form a left-wing coalition government for the eurozone's fourth-largest economy. Sánchez's Socialist Party wants to form...
January 4, 2020
It was 2018, and after years of running a successful business in the Boise area — Same Day Electric — Patty Fletcher and her husband, Randy, wanted a change of...
January 4, 2020
Vanilla has an undeserved reputation for being blah, as in plain vanilla, the flavor for people who consider chocolate too daring. The truth is a vanilla bean is an exotic...
January 4, 2020
The loss of access to two of three forensic pathology labs in Iowa is translating into high costs for autopsies out of Scott County. The Scott County Medical Examiner's Office...
January 4, 2020
The smell of coffee was already wafting through the True Value Hardware Store by the time the sun started to rise on a Wednesday morning in the southern Minnesota town...
January 4, 2020
Joe Garcia was shocked when he learned in November that his twin brother Julian had broken into and set a woman's house on fire. "My initial response was devastation," the...
January 4, 2020
The Frawley Ranch has been an integral part of the history of the Black Hills since the Frawley Brothers began buying up failed homesteads in the Centennial Valley in the...
January 4, 2020
With three young boys and three small dogs dancing around her, Nicole Wiggins patiently manages the controlled chaos of dinner at her Lee County home. She and husband Jeremy Wiggins...
January 4, 2020
The Strand Theatre of Louisiana is the state's official theater, opened in 1925 at the corner of Louisiana Avenue and Crockett Street in the heart of downtown Shreveport. It's the...
January 4, 2020
Here's something you can be sure Franklin College won't be highlighting in its student-recruitment marketing: All three of the former Celadon Group Inc. executives charged this year in what prosecutors...
January 4, 2020
No wonder they call her Amazing Grace. After meningitis made her deaf, doctors confirmed 4-year-old Grace Bradley has regained her hearing with the help of an implant and frequent visits...
January 4, 2020
John Lett has been an LSU football fan for decades, ever since he moved from Missouri to Baton Rouge to get his degree from the college. And even though he's...
January 4, 2020
Learning the ins and outs of starting a business used to be something students were not exposed to until at least high school. Two classes of fifth-graders at High Hills...
January 4, 2020
Paula Sieber can see long into the future and well beyond the dingy white cabins that hug the trees at the Heroes Center Veterans Support Camp. She sees an urban...
January 4, 2020
Keshee Dozier-Smith hurried through the basement door of the aging Uniontown Municipal Building. She ignored the lectern at the front of the room where she was scheduled to give a...
January 4, 2020
Today in History Today is Saturday, Jan. 4, the fourth day of 2020. There are 362 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Jan. 4, 1964, Pope...
January 4, 2020
As Washington is getting annoyed by Phnom Penh's growing ties with China, Cambodia is likely to become the focal point of a major rivalry between China and the United States...
January 4, 2020
Researchers at the University of New Mexico will share in millions of dollars being doled out by the U.S. Energy Department for projects aimed at improving natural gas infrastructure by...
January 4, 2020
A nearly three-year effort to redevelop another old motel along Albuquerque's stretch of historic Route 66 is almost complete. The De Anza Motor Lodge's iconic sign will once again shine...
January 4, 2020
Three men who ran an $11 million investment scheme that bilked elderly Californians are going to prison. James Litzinger, Gregory Chapman and Wallace Thomas were sentenced to state prison sentences...
January 4, 2020
Nissan's former Chairman Carlos Ghosn, who skipped bail in Japan and turned up in Lebanon, was last seen on surveillance video leaving his Tokyo home alone, presumably to board his...
January 4, 2020
A Texas appeals court on Friday agreed to delay a judge's ruling that would have allowed a hospital to end life-sustaining treatment for an 11-month-old girl who doctors say is...
January 4, 2020
An advocacy group for utility customers urged the New Mexico Supreme Court on Friday to allow state utility regulators more time to vet a proposal to close a major coal-fired...
