The North Carolina Senate could begin debating that state's first piece of legislation to allow hydraulic fracturing in oil-and-gas drilling next week.
The president is reportedly telling donors that he may need to revisit the health-care law in a second term.
A 65-year-old man, passionate about planes, died after his homemade aircraft crashed at a Colorado airport.
Democrats in a state where fracking has ignited a furious political debate say a law currently regulating the practice doesn't go far enough, and propose a new one
An elusive, scarf-wearing pig turned motorists' heads near Pittsburgh, and authorities have no clues as to why the fashion-forward swine decided to dress up yesterday.
Oil and natural gas companies in Oklahoma will have to disclose the chemicals used when hydraulically fracturing rock for oil or natural gas, as of July 1.
Time to stop dropping the presumptive and the likely qualifiers: It is all but certain that after Texans finish voting in Tuesday's Republican presidential primary, Mitt Romney will have secured the 1,144 delegates he needs to win the nomination.
Pedro Hernandez, the former SoHo bodega stock boy who confessed to the murder of 6-year-old Etan Patz 33 years after the boy disappeared, was taken to Bellevue Hospital and placed on suicide watch. Authorities promptly put him the hospital after he told police he no longer takes his psychiatric medication.
Three months after Rush Limbaugh characterized a Georgetown Law School student Sandra Fluke as a ?slut? and a ?prostitute,? a liberal-backed boycott of the right-winger?s radio show has been effective.
Sandusky's charity began the process of closing on Friday.
In the debate on hydraulic fracturing's safety record, the back and forth between industry groups, activist, and academic studies creates a lot of noise for the average person to sort out. But when a university is accused of misrepresenting its own data, that makes understanding the controversial drilling technique even more challenging.
With the approaching presidential election likely to serve as a referendum on the economy, Mitt Romney appears poised to dominate white voters still fighting to weather the economic downturn.
The U.S. Senate on Thursday showed near-unanimous support for a bill that helps fund the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, a regulatory powerhouse with sweeping influence over the foods Americans eat and the medicines they take. The bill, which passed by a vote of 96 to 1, aims to speed approval of new drugs and devices and ensure food safety.
The Ohio House on Thursday is expected to vote on a bill that would bolster the state's rules on hydraulic fracturing
Police have arrested a man identified as Pedro Hernandez in connection with the 1979 disappearance and murder of Etan Patz..
Ohio representatives this week will vote on a set of new natural gas drilling regulations, including chemical disclosure laws, that opponents say favor natural gas drillers.
Joe Paterno's family will receive $13.4 million from the state's pension fund.
The Saints and Sinners stage at Bamboozle housed many acts this weekend, but one performance in particular stands well above the rest. Sundays Texas In July set was everything one can expect a Bamboozle performance to be. The metalcore band hailing from Ephrata, Pennsylvania not only had an impressive crowd watching their set, but had people flocking to other stages stop in their tracks along the way to take in their performance.
The Obama administration is increasingly under fire this month for its policy on the nation's coal sector.
The Karl Rove-backed Super PAC Crossroads GPS is releasing a basketball-themed anti-Obama attack ad to begin airing in swing states on Wednesday.
Researchers found that more than 2,000 defendants who were falsely convicted of serious crimes have been exonerated in the past 23 years.
Did your city make the list?
