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Smoldering sweet potatoes vex small North Carolina town

RALEIGH, N.C. – Smoke from burnt sweet potatoes wafting around the town of Farmville has nothing to do with holiday baking. A silo full of dehydrated sweet potatoes has been smold...

Election Briefs

Republican voters call Trump decisive WASHINGTON – Republican voters don’t think Donald Trump is likable. They don’t think he’s compassionate. And many don’t consider him particul...

World Briefs

Cuba, U.S. to resume direct mail service HAVANA – Cuba and the United States announced Friday they have struck a deal to re-establish direct mail service, which was cut in 1963 at...

Concerns about deal grow

Experts fear pact may put politics above science

Evidence suggests police killed 4 in Waco melee

Evidence offers new details about biker shootout

Bill keeps government open

Congress buys more time to work on tax, budget deals

Nation Briefs

FAA: drone-plane close calls are up WASHINGTON – There has yet to be a confirmed U.S. collision between a drone and a manned aircraft, but there’s a growing number of close calls ...

Report cites 241 close encounters between pilots, drones

WASHINGTON – There have been at least 241 reports of close encounters between drones and manned aircraft that meet the government’s definition of a near midair collision, including 28 in whi...

Retail sales rise in November as shopping picks up

WASHINGTON – Holiday shoppers are off to a solid but unspectacular start as retail sales registered a modest gain in November. The Commerce Department said Friday that retail sale...

Swiss boost security after terror plot report

Police looking for four suspects in Geneva

Boston train takes off from station without driver

BOSTON – A six-car train carrying about 50 passengers left a suburban Boston transit station without a driver Thursday and went through four stations without stopping, and investigators were...

Tiny islands have powerful voice in UN climate talks

LE BOURGET, France – They barely break the surface of the ocean but in the UN talks on how to stop rising seas and other hazards of a warming planet, small island nations have the moral high...
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