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Couch to serve nearly two years in DUI deaths

Nation & World Briefs

U.S.: Russian planes buzzed Navy ship WASHINGTON – Russian attack planes buzzed a U.S. Navy destroyer in the Baltic Sea multiple times Monday and Tuesday, coming as close as an estimated 30 ...

U.S. retail sales fall in March as Americans buy fewer cars

WASHINGTON – U.S. retail sales fell last month as Americans cut back on their car purchases, the latest sign that consumers are reluctant to spend freely. A 2.1 percent plunge in...

Governor wants to change, but not scrap, North Carolina law

RALEIGH, N.C. – North Carolina’s governor is asking lawmakers to change part of a state law criticized for its anti-discrimination policies, but he sees no need for a wholesale repeal or rev...

Senate GOP vows to subpoena EPA chief in Gold Mine spill

McCarthy would be required to attend field hearing next week

Ryan: ‘Count me out’ as GOP nominee

House speaker reaffirms that he isn’t running for presidency

Obama touts party’s emphasis on equal pay

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama and other Democrats on Tuesday seized on Equal Pay Day – a symbolic event dramatizing how much longer it takes a woman to earn as much as a man – to court...

Nation & World Briefs

Governor fires head of psychiatric hospital OLYMPIA, Wash. – Washington Gov. Jay Inslee on Tuesday fired the head of a beleaguered state psychiatric hospital after an accused murderer escape...

Stuck in a rut? Not at all

Even after 70 years, 90-year-old loves coming to work every day

Forensic vets battle pet abuse, neglect

Team helped double number of N.Y. arrests

Environmental groups sue over pollution from airliners

WASHINGTON – A coalition of environmental groups sued federal regulators Tuesday over long-sought pollution standards for airliners and cargo planes. The Center for Biological Div...

U.S. budget deficit up sharply to $108 billion in March

WASHINGTON – The federal government’s budget deficit rose sharply in March, pushing the deficit for the first six months of this budget year above the same period a year ago. The ...