07/16/11 WASHINGTON - The U.S. Marshals Service says a man charged with first-degree murder has escaped from a D.C. Superior Court holding cell. U.S. Marshals spokesman David Neumann says 24-year-old James Brewer is a suspect in a Washington, D.C., killing but did not have details.
07/16/11 The first expansion of the U.S. patent office beyond the nation's capital has Denver, Silicon Valley and Austin, Texas, envisioning the next Research Triangle and an accompanying jobs windfall.
07/16/11 President Barack Obama opened the door Friday to a less ambitious compromise to the looming debt-ceiling crisis than the "grand bargain" he has been pushing for, acknowledging that other alternatives might be needed to win approval in time to avoid a federal default.
07/16/11 The Associated Press The Associated Press WASHINGTON The U.S. Marshals Service says a man charged with first-degree murder has escaped from a D.C. Superior Court holding cell. U.S. Marshals spokesman David Neumann says 24-year-old James Brewer is a suspect in a Washington, D.C., killing but did not have details. He says authorities are still investigating how Brewer escaped Friday afternoon. He ...
07/16/11 This article has been read 0 times. Dorothy Wilson, 89, and Marguerite Bellois, 91, both of Wilmington, N.C., were pronounced dead at Pittsburgh hospitals, where they were taken following a crash in Hanover Township about 2:40 p.m.
07/14/11 From FEMA PHILADELPHIA - The Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency will evaluate a Biennial Emergency Preparedness Exercise at the Surry Power Station.
07/12/11 Princeton Borough A 25-year-old Trenton man was arrested on a $2,500 warrant on July 8. Lee Funderburg of Hillcrest Avenue was was released on his own recognizance.
07/09/11 FROM CNN's Jack Cafferty: Here's something that will scare you out of a vacation if you've got kids in high school or junior high school: During the past 20 years, tuition and fees at public universities have jumped nearly 130%, and they're going up some more - again. With states facing budget crunches like never [...]
07/09/11 Mary Burton Ashby, 89, wife of the late Walter B. Ashby Jr. and a resident of Painter, passed away Sunday, July 3, 2011, at Mallard Bay Healthcare in Cambridge, Md.
07/08/11 President Barack Obama meets with Congressional leadership in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, July 7, 2011, to discuss the debt. From left are, House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer of Md., House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Va., House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif.,
07/08/11 The outspoken and much-admired wife of President Gerald R. Ford overcame alcoholism and an addiction to pills and helped found one of the most well-known rehabilitation centers in the nation.
07/02/11 A southwestern Virginia lawmaker is again asking that officials with the Office of National Drug Control Policy put three local counties under a designation that would provide them with more federal resources to combat drug abuse and crime in the region.
07/02/11 NEWARK -- Wayne Dowie served in the Army in the South Pacific during World War II.
07/02/11 Note: this is an unofficial list of Problem Banks compiled only from public sources. This post includes an update to stress rates at the state level (see comments and sortable table at bottom).
07/02/11 Eighteen veterans commit suicide every day in this country, and David Sharpe was almost one of them. Until his dog Cheyenne looked at him as he sat with the barrel of his gun out of his mouth. His love for her kept him from pulling the trigger.
07/02/11 Today nearly a dozen future Terps lacrosse All-Americans will take the field in the sixth annual Under Armour...
07/02/11 VANDALISM: Two motorcycles were reportedly pushed over while they were parked at 373 E. Liberty St. Chambersburg Police said the incident happened between midnight and 6:15 A.M. Thursday.
06/25/11 A day after debt-reduction talks led by Vice President Joe Biden appeared to have broken down, the White House announced that President Barack Obama would intervene in the negotiations, beginning one-on-one meetings with key lawmakers next week.
06/25/11 In New Hampshire in summer, the mountains and valleys are green, the streams are babbling, and the beer is flowing. The state, home to 17 brewers - including an 865,000-square-foot Anheuser-Busch facility in Merrimack -...
05/03/11 NEW YORK (AP) - Joyous at the release of a decade's frustration, Americans streamed to the site of the World Trade Center, the gates of the White House and smaller but no less jubilant gatherings across the nation to celebrate the death of Osama bin Laden - cheering, waving flags and belting the national anthem. | 
