05.17.12 |
One of life's simple pleasures just got a little sweeter. After years of waffling research on coffee and health, even some fear that java might raise the risk of heart disease, a big study finds the opposite: Coffee drinkers are a little more ...
05.17.12 |
For the first time, racial and ethnic minorities make up more than half the children born in the U.S., capping decades of heady immigration growth that is now slowing.
05.16.12 |
Convicted child killer Eric Smith has been denied parole. Smith was 13 years old in 1993 - when he killed 4-year-old Derrick Robie in Savona in Steuben County.
05.16.12 |
John Lennon's killer has been transferred to another maximum-security state prison in western New York after spending more than 30 years in Attica Correctional Facility.
05.16.12 |
FBI Director Robert Mueller says the bureau has launched an investigation into who leaked information about an al-Qaida plot to place an explosive device aboard a U.S.-bound airline flight.
05.16.12 |
President Barack Obama on Wednesday is awarding the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military award, to a Pennsylvania Army specialist killed in 1970 while serving in Cambodia during the Vietnam War.
05.15.12 |
ABC yanked its freshman series "GCB" because it failed to attract enough viewership. The series was based on Kim Gatlin's novel and centers on a newly widowed woman who moves back with her family to the upscale Dallas, Texas, neighborhood where she ...
05.15.12 |
The number of gas drilling rigs is down in Pennsylvania, and the number in West Virginia is increasing. Houston-based oilfield service company Baker Hughes reports there were 95 drilling rigs in the Keystone State, down from 116 a year ago. West ...
05.15.12 |
Here is something you don't hear very often: zero unemployment. It means everyone has a job. People who majored in Astrophysics, Geophysics, Farmicology and Actuarial Science all got a job in 2010, right after college. The data was released by ...
05.15.12 |
President Obama's favor has dropped among American voters since he announced his support for gay marriage. A new CBS News/New York Times survey poll gives Mitt Romney 46-percent support to Obama's 43-percent. In the same poll last month, before the ...
