06.01.12 |
Saying he is impatient and frustrated, special envoy Kofi Annan called on the Syrian president Friday to implement a U.N.-brokered peace plan following a horrific weekend massacre that killed more than 100 people.
05.23.12 |
Four men have been arrested, accused of bilking elderly Pennsylvanians out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. The state attorney general announced the arrests Tuesday in Harrisburg and described in frightening detail how the men allegedly ripped ...
05.23.12 |
When Trooper Christopher Sullivan arrived at a home in Erie County Tuesday night, he found a toddler who had been in the pool unresponsive and not breathing. He quickly began CPR and partially revived the child. It was just before 9 p.m.
05.23.12 |
Regulators are examining whether Morgan Stanley (MS), the investment bank that shepherded Facebook through its highly publicized stock offering last week, selectively informed clients of an analyst's negative report about the company before the ...
05.23.12 |
More than 15 months after autocratic leader Hosni Mubarak's ouster, Egyptians streamed to polling stations Wednesday to freely choose a president for the first time in generations. Waiting hours in line, some debated to the last minute over their ...
05.18.12 |
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled Thursday the Town of Greece violated the Establishment Clause through a prayer practice that “identified the town with Christianity.” The decision reversed a previous ruling in a lower ...
05.18.12 |
The state's ethics commission may soon determine if the biggest lobbying group in Albany will have to name at least some of the donors behind an unprecedented $10 million TV campaign it funded to help boost Gov. Andrew Cuomo's poll numbers and ...
05.18.12 |
Get stuck or get out. That's what Pennsylvania school districts told students and their parents this year as they approached a deadline to comply with new state vaccination requirements. The message seems to have penetrated.
05.17.12 |
Sunrises and sunsets often dazzle, but they'll have a special ring to them in a few days for people in the western United States and eastern Asia: The moon will slide across the sun, blocking everything but a blazing halo of light.
05.17.12 |
Mapping the way out of an unpopular war, the United States and NATO are trying to build an Afghan army that can defend the country after 130,000 international troops pull out. The alliance's plans for arm's-length support for Afghanistan will be a ...
