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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has issued an executive order barring California welfare recipients from using state-issued debit cards at casino ATMs.
Thursday's order followed a report by The Los Angeles Times that found Cal...
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SALINAS, Calif. (AP) — A California couple faces child endangerment charges after police say they tried to sell their 6-month-old baby for $25 outside a Walmart store.
Salinas police spokesman, Officer Lalo Villegas, said Thursday that Patrick Fou...
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RUSSELL, Kan. (AP) — Crews have found the bodies of two workers who were killed when a portion of a grain elevator collapsed in central Kansas, burying them in wheat.
Russell police 911 supervisor Greg Rose said part of one of the Agco Inc. elevat...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Police say robbery appeared to be the motive in killings at two medical marijuana dispensaries in Los Angeles that occurred within hours of each other.
Police say an employee of the Hollywood Holistic store was found dead at the...
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana State University's Edward Overton once published a research article with the tongue-tangling title, "Effectiveness of Phytoremediation and Bioremediation of n-Alknaes as a Function of the length of the Carbon Cha...
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NEW YORK (AP) — Lt. Col. George Custer and the men of his 7th Cavalry Regiment went into the Battle of the Little Bighorn with flags flying, but they were wiped out, and nearly all their military artifacts were carried away by the victorious Lako...
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The two Koreas commemorated the 60th anniversary Friday of the outbreak of the Korean War, promoting vastly different views of the origins of the conflict that still divides their peninsula.
The war started in the early h...
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BRUSSELS (AP) — Porn sites have stepped closer to a new ".xxx" Internet address after the global Internet oversight agency said it made mistakes in rejecting it three years ago.
The board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers,...
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WASHINGTON (AP) — One year in the making, a sweeping overhaul of Wall Street rules forged in the aftermath of a financial crisis cleared congressional negotiations early Friday and headed to the House and Senate for final votes.
Lawmakers hope...
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TONTOGANY — An anticipated motion to again try to halt progress on a new elementary school did not materialize at Thursday night’s Otsego Board of Education meeting.Board President Mark Tolles said earlier Thursday that he planned to ask the board to ...
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Friday will see the closure of both Curtis and Wolfly between North Main and North Grove streets in Bowling Green. Access for residents will be from North Grove only.
In addition, the intersections of Frazee/North Main and Leroy/North Main will be closed...
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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The South Dakota Supreme Court has ruled that a police officer acted correctly when he seized 15 cats from a woman who was driving with the animals running free inside her car.
In a 3-2 decision Thursday, the justices rule...
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A son of Jim Thorpe is suing the Pennsylvania town that bears his father's name over the remains of the Native American often called the 20th century's greatest athlete.
Jack Thorpe of Shawnee, Okla., filed the lawsuit Thursday...
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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Police say 24 people were injured when a bus crashed while on its way into Atlantic City, N.J.
Police Lt. Charles Love says the bus driver was thrown from the vehicle when it collided with a car. He says two people a...
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ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — Talk about a meaty agenda.
President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev took a break from bilateral meetings at the White House on Thursday to make a burger run.
Traveling by motorcade, the two presidents...
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ATLANTA (AP) — Most U.S. adults should eat less than a teaspoon of salt each day, but a new government report says just 1 in 18 meet that goal.
"This is not good news," said Janelle Peralez Gunn of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, l...
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WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — John Isner has won the longest tennis match on record by beating Nicolas Mahut 70-68 in the final set at Wimbledon.
Picking up at 59-59 in the fifth set Thursday, the match continued on serve with no break points until th...
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CASTELLDEFELS, Spain (AP) — The last thing they heard was the piercing whistle of an oncoming train.
Moments later, dozens of mostly Latin American immigrants who crossed the tracks instead of using an underground passageway to reach a beach p...
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Mortgage rates fell this week to the lowest level on records dating to 1971, giving consumers added incentive to lock in low payments for home purchases and refinanced loans.
The average rate for 30-year fixed loans sank to 4...
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Jason Rupert (center) takes his turn running with the torch as the Ohio Law Enforcement Torch Run for Special Olympics made its way through Bowling Green on Wednesday. The run had previously gone through Perrysburg and continued to North Bal...
