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Poll finds Obama regaining public support

A new poll finds that fewer than one-third of Americans rate President Barack Obama as an above-average president, although nearly…

Bombings in Egypt raise fears of Islamist violence

An image taken from CCTV in Egypt shows a bomb exploding in Cairo, one of four bombings that killed at…

Mangled metal, victims’ screams mark Indiana pileup

Emergency crews Thursday work at the scene of a massive pileup involving more than 40 vehicles along Interstate 94 near…

Ukraine clashes resume, fires light up night sky

Protests are spreading across the Ukraine as opposition members continue to put pressure on President Viktor Yanukovych to step down.Darko…

Union membership holds steady at 11.3 percent

In a turnabout, there are now slightly more union members working for private firms than in government, the Bureau of…

Natural gas soars as cold grips homes, drillers

The frigid winter of 2014 is setting the price of natural gas on fire. On Friday, the price in the…

Internet community helps crack grandma’s code

The front of an index card is filled with letters written by Dorothy Holm. A brain tumor took away Holm’s…

Study: New Madrid fault zone alive, active

It’s “not dead yet,” said U.S. Geological Survey seismologist Susan Hough, who was part of the study published online by…

Norway’s curlers get funky

Members of the Norway’s Men’s Olympic Curling Team, from left, Thomas Ulsrud, Torgor Nergard, Christoffer Svae and Havard Vad Petersson…

Roberts wants emergency radios fixed

chiefs: Upgrade top priority

Bombings rock Egyptian capital, killing 6 people

An Egyptian man stands in rubble after an explosion at the Egyptian police headquarters in downtown Cairo Friday. Six people…

Former Virginia Gov. McDonnell, wife plead not guilty

Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and his wife, Maureen, are free on their own recognizance after pleading not guilty Friday…

Opportunity still roving on Mars after a decade

This artist rendering released by NASA shows the NASA rover Opportunity on the surface of Mars. Opportunity landed on the…

Poll: Uninsured rate among adults drops

The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index found that the uninsured rate for U.S. adults dropped by 1.2 percentage points in January, to…

Hagel ordering full review of nuclear force

It amounted to the most significant expression of high-level Pentagon concern about the nuclear force since 2008, when then-Defense Secretary…

FDA to update rules for food nutrition facts labels

A new Agriculture Department study suggests that more people read nutrition labels “always or most of the time.” The Food…

Nation Briefs

WASHINGTON – Warning that a “major loss of life” could result from an accident involving the increasing use of trains…

The Blotter

Wednesday 5:42 a.m. Firefighters responded to a structure fire at the 500 block of East Seventh Avenue. The district responded…

Almost done

Miguel Garcia puts the final touches on freshly laid concrete Thursday morning over what was an exposed water-main break. The…

World Briefs

KOLKATA, India – A 20-year-old Indian woman said she was gang-raped on the orders of a village council because she…

Local Briefs

Barbara Tobin Klema will teach the scientific method of plant identification in an eight-week course from 8 to 11 a.m.…

Opposition meets with Ukraine president

Protests against Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych are spreading throughout the country, with protesters breaking into regional governors’ offices to put…

Syria group set for talks

Ahmad al-Jarba, leader of the Syrian National Coalition opposition group, says his group has set no timetable for reaching a…