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3 win medicine Nobel for discovering brain’s GPS

STOCKHOLM – A U.S.-British scientist and a Norwegian husband-and-wife research team won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for discovering the brain’s navigation system – the inner GPS that ...

DATE: Oct 6, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

High court denies gay marriage appeals

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court unexpectedly cleared the way Monday for a dramatic expansion of gay marriage in the United States and may have signaled that it’s only a matter of time before ...

DATE: Oct 6, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Analysis: Supreme Court ruling means battle ‘effectively over’

The Supreme Court’s refusal to take up challenges to laws legalizing gay marriage in five states has an immediate impact: Gay couples in those states can now wed. But it has a longer-term im...

DATE: Oct 5, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Media goes overtime on Ebola coverage, but not necessarily overboard

WASHINGTON – There’s a potentially deadly disease afoot in America, with no known cure and terrifying consequences for those infected. Ebola? Well, yes, but another bug has had fa...

DATE: Oct 5, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

State-by-state look at gay marriage bans

State bans on same-sex marriages have been falling around the country since summer 2013, when the Supreme Court ordered the federal government to recognize state-sanctioned gay marriages. Th...

DATE: Oct 5, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation & World Briefs

Officials find possible Ebola patient contact DALLAS – A homeless man being sought because of possible contact with the lone U.S. Ebola patient was found Sunday in Texas after sev...

DATE: Oct 5, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Americans are worried: Can government protect us?

WASHINGTON – Americans lack confidence in the government’s ability to protect their personal safety and economic security, a sign that their widespread unease about the state of the nation e...

DATE: Oct 5, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Hong Kong heads back to work as protests thin

HONG KONG – Hong Kong’s civil servants returned to work and schools were reopening today as a massive pro-democracy protest that has occupied much of the city center for the week dwindled. ...

DATE: Oct 5, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Study points at monarchs’ origin

Butterflies from N. America

DATE: Oct 4, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Many stepping up to keep planes aloft

Effects of fire at O’Hare still being felt

DATE: Oct 4, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Tobacco growers brace for competition

DANVILLE, Va. – Starting this month, America’s remaining tobacco growers will be totally exposed to the laws of supply and demand. The very last buyout checks, totaling about $91...

DATE: Oct 4, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Ebola patient came to U.S. to marry girlfriend, start new life

DALLAS – Thomas Eric Duncan, the Dallas Ebola patient, came to the United States to marry his girlfriend, a local pastor says. Days later, Duncan was hospitalized in isolation, and his girlf...

DATE: Oct 4, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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