
Especially grim encephalitis toll feared in India
A mosquito-borne disease that preys on the young and malnourished is sweeping across poverty-riven northern India again this monsoon season in what ...
Maine governor says he won't talk to 3 newspapers
A spokeswoman for Maine Gov. Paul LePage says the administration will no longer comment for stories published in three of Maine's daily newspapers.

3 more plead guilty in probe of Pilot Flying J
Three more employees of the truck stop chain owned by the Cleveland Browns' owner and Tennessee's governor pleaded guilty Tuesday in what authorities ...
Missouri moves to lift ban on foreign farm owners
Weeks before a Chinese conglomerate agreed to buy Smithfield Foods Inc. in the largest such takeover of a U.S. business, Missouri lawmakers quietly ...

Chicago's next US attorney faces urgent dilemma
Chicago's next U.S. attorney faces a dilemma sprung from the twin evils bedeviling America's third-largest city. Should he zero in on Illinois' deep ...

Rick Perry woos disgruntled Conn. gun makers
Texas Gov. Rick Perry extolled the tax policies and regulatory climate of his state as he courted gun manufacturers that have threatened to leave ...

Texas, SD governors court Conn. gun makers
The governors of Texas and South Dakota visited Connecticut on Monday to court gun manufacturers that have threatened to leave since the state passed ...
Court will review dispute between airline, pilot
The Supreme Court will review a $1.24 million defamation judgment against a Wisconsin airline that reported one of its pilots as mentally unstable and ...
Ind. woman sentenced to die at 16 to be released
An Indiana woman put on death row at age 16 for killing an elderly Bible school teacher is scheduled to be released Monday after serving a prison term ...
Whole Foods revises employee language policy
Facing threats of national boycotts from Latino groups and a slew of online petitions, Whole Foods announced Friday that the organic grocery chain has ...

Christie maintains a political balancing act
Republican Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey is walking a political tightrope as he charts his future, trying to balance his re-election campaign in ...

Conn. chimp victim is denied $150M state lawsuit
A Connecticut woman disfigured by a friend's pet chimpanzee in 2009 was denied permission Friday to sue the state for $150 million on her claim that ...

Arizona Gov. Brewer secures Medicaid expansion
Ending a six-month legislative session, Arizona lawmakers endorsed a key element of President Barack Obama's health care law in a huge political ...

Arizona Legislature passes Medicaid expansion
The Arizona Legislature embraced a signature component of President Barack Obama's health care law Thursday after a drawn out battle that divided the ...

Debate over social issues emerges
A fresh debate has erupted within the GOP over social issues. Republicans in Congress and statehouses across the nation are pressing for restrictive ...

AZ House passes Medicaid expansion in Brewer win
The Arizona House passed an $8.8 billion state budget that includes Medicaid expansion early Thursday and puts Gov. Jan Brewer one Senate vote away ...

NSA head says spy programs thwarted terror attacks
Once-secret surveillance programs were crucial in enabling the U.S. government to thwart dozens of terrorist attacks, says the director of the ...
'Pink slime' lawsuit heads back to state court
A federal judge on Wednesday moved a South Dakota beef processing company's defamation lawsuit against ABC News back to state court. Beef Products Inc

NSA director: Programs disrupted dozens of attacks
The director of the National Security Agency vigorously defended once-secret surveillance programs as an effective tool in keeping America safe, ...
Court: Texas inmate's decades-old sentence invalid
The life sentence given to a Texas man who has remained in prison for 33 years since being pulled off of death row isn't valid, Texas' highest ...

Daley set to challenge Democratic governor in Ill.
A rare intra-party battle began taking shape Tuesday among big-name Democrats in Illinois, as former White House chief of staff Bill Daley positioned ...

Analysts: Midwest drivers to see lower gas prices
The worst may be over for drivers in the upper Midwest who have been grappling with the highest gasoline prices in the continental U.S. Analysts said ...
La. company, employees indicted in explosives case
Six executives of a Louisiana company that recycles explosives were indicted Monday in an investigation into the improper storage of millions of ...
Calif. raisin farmers win new day in court
The Supreme Court is giving California raisin producers a new day in court to object to a government program that aims to stabilize prices by ...

APNewsBreak: Pallone says he's in NJ Senate race
U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone said Sunday that he's officially in the race to fill the U.S. Senate seat occupied by Frank Lautenberg and can win the ...