A prominent Nebraska abortion clinic is facing a new legal challenge from state officials who want to revoke the license of the clinic's only nurse because of allegations of questionable care. Nebraska ... More »Neb. AG wants to revoke license of abortion nurse
All that is left of Shayne Patteson's three-bedroom home is the tiny area where his wife hunkered down under a mattress to protect their three children when a tornado packing winds of at least 200 mph ... More »$2B in Okla. tornado damage means hard recovery
GROZNY, Russia (AP) — The father of a Chechen immigrant shot dead by U.S. law enforcement agents while being questioned about his ties to a Boston Marathon bombings suspect said Thursday that he regrets allowing his son to go to the United States. More »Father of man shot in Boston probe shares regrets
A former Playboy bunny who claims Sammy Hagar fathered her now-deceased child is appealing a ruling that dismissed her lawsuit against the former Van Halen frontman. The Iowa woman, identified in court ... More »Sammy Hagar faces appeal of tossed defamation case
A northeast Ohio injection-well operator whose former senior officer faces federal charges of violating the Clean Water Act told a state regulatory panel Wednesday that the company can't be blamed for ... More »Ohio injection well operator fights state action
In a medical first, doctors used plastic particles and a 3-D laser printer to create an airway splint to save the life of a baby boy who used to stop breathing nearly every day. It's the latest advance ... More »Doctors save Ohio boy by 'printing' an airway tube
The head of Southern Co. called the decision to write off $540 million in extra costs on a Mississippi power plant "a bitter pill for us to swallow," but he defended the project Wednesday as ... More »Southern Co. CEO defends Miss. power project
Rhode Island's minimum wage would go up 25 cents to $8 per hour next year under legislation approved Wednesday by the state Senate. The state's minimum wage is now $7.75, compared with the federal minimum ... More »Rhode Island Senate OKs minimum wage hike
The WikiLeaks organization and a handful of journalists asked a federal judge Wednesday to order greater transparency in the court-martial of an Army private who has acknowledged sending reams of classified ... More »WikiLeaks case file fight moves to federal court
Toy maker Fisher-Price said Wednesday it's moving or eliminating roughly 100 jobs from its operations New York as part of restructuring by parent company Mattel Inc. The majority of jobs will be reassigned ... More »Fisher-Price moving, eliminating about 100 NY jobs
President Barack Obama's spokesman says the White House is facing "legitimate criticisms" for its shifting accounts about who knew what about the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative ... More »Carney: Criticism of IRS response 'legitimate'
Democrats in the Ohio Senate suggested Wednesday that budget writers take millions of dollars from a proposed income tax cut for higher wage earners and direct it to schools instead, as work intensified ... More »Senate Democrats offer slew of Ohio budget changes
The Pentagon has decided to buy a new computerized health records system to be able to better share and merge its data with the Department of Veterans Affairs, but officials cautioned that it was part ... More »Pentagon: New record plan won't help vet backlog
Curt Schilling and executives of his bankrupt video game company "disclosed everything" to Rhode Island's economic development agency before being granted a $75 million loan guarantee, a lawyer ... More »Schilling lawyer argues for tossing lawsuit
Even though Gov. Paul LePage's office made it clear Wednesday he'll veto a bill to pay off a $484 million debt to Maine hospitals because of an amendment to expand Medicaid, Democrats professed hope the ... More »Path unclear if LePage vetoes Maine hospital bill
The next major power plant to be built in the nation's top coal-mining state will be fueled by natural gas. Black Hills Corp. subsidiaries Cheyenne Light, Fuel & Power and Black Hills Power held a groundbreaking ... More »In top coal state, gas to fuel next power plant
Little has been done to improve the safety of public gathering places since a nightclub fire killed 242 people earlier this year in southern Brazil, relatives of the victims said Wednesday. The relatives ... More »Little done in Brazil to improve safety after fire
Brokenhearted skateboarders long banned from Philadelphia's internationally renowned shredding paradise of Love Park may have a new object of affection: Paine's Park. The $4.5 million space, which has ... More »Skateboarders might find new love at Philly park
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A Taliban car bomb targeting a police vehicle killed 11 policemen and one civilian Thursday in an area of southwest Pakistan wracked by Islamic militancy and a violent separatist insurgency, police said. More »Car bomb kills 12 in southwest Pakistan
When high school student Zach Sobiech learned he didn't have much longer to live, his mother suggested he write letters to tell his loved ones goodbye. Instead, the Minnesota teenager turned to writing ... More »Minn. teen whose farewell song became web hit dies
Former baseball slugger Jose Canseco Jr. has been accused of sexual assault in Las Vegas, in an investigation that the former baseball slugger made public with postings on a social media website claiming ... More »Jose Canseco accused of sexual assault in Vegas
GRAPEVINE, Texas (AP) — The Boy Scouts of America's national leadership will vote Thursday on whether to allow openly gay Scouts in its ranks, a critical and emotionally charged moment for one of the nation's oldest youth organizations and its millions of members. More »Vote on gay Scouts comes at emotional moment
With its single-story design and cinder-block walls, Plaza Towers Elementary School may have seemed sturdy when it was built a couple of generations ago. But a powerful tornado revealed the building's ... More »School storm protection is spotty in tornado zones
Johnson & Johnson says it plans to submit more than 10 new treatments to regulators for approval and 25 applications for additional uses of approved drugs by 2017. The New Brunswick, N.J., company says ... More »J&J forecasts 10 new drug applications by 2017
The incoming mayor of Los Angeles was able to defeat a fellow Democrat by depicting her as a pawn of utility union bosses in a city long friendly to labor, an outcome expected to echo beyond California ... More »Union power at issue as Garcetti elected LA mayor
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