Health / Disease

PRUDEN: Waiting for Gov. Scott Walker's survivor's tale

ANALYSIS/OPINION:

Wisconsin is a land of thrifty cheeseheads, angry labor bosses and sore Democratic losers, hardly typical of everywhere else, but Tuesday night it might tell the rest of us something about November.

The results of a referendum on whether to recall Gov. Scott Walker will say whether it's possible ...

PRUDEN: Waiting for Gov. Scott Walker's survivor's tale

ANALYSIS/OPINION:

Wisconsin is a land of thrifty cheeseheads, angry labor bosses and sore Democratic losers, hardly typical of everywhere else, but Tuesday night it might tell the rest of us something about November.

The results of a referendum on whether to recall Gov. Scott Walker will say whether it's possible ...

NTSB to decide cause of deadly N.Y. tour bus crash

WASHINGTON — The results of an investigation into a deadly tour bus crash in New York last year that killed 15 passengers and helped prompt a crackdown on rogue bus operators by federal regulators are about to be released.

The five-member National Transportation Safety Board plans to meet Tuesday to ...

Laundry list California ballot has Feinstein, 23 others

California voters can head to the movies Tuesday to watch "Snow White and the Huntsman," or turn up at the ballot box to see something not much different: "Dianne Feinstein and the 23 Dwarfs."

A voter-approved overhaul of California's election procedures has resulted in a whopping 24 candidates vying for ...

2 die in Utah firefighter plane crash

RENO, Nev. — A firefighting aircraft crashed into rugged terrain near the Utah-Nevada border as it dropped retardant on a 5,000-acre wildfire, killing the two Idaho men on board.

The air tanker went down Sunday afternoon in the Hamblin Valley area of western Utah, Bureau of Land Management officials said. ...

Cuomo proposes reducing pot penalty

ALBANY, N.Y. — Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Monday proposed cutting the penalty for public possession of a small amount of marijuana, a change in state law that could defuse some criticism of the New York Police Department's "stop-and-frisk" policy in minority communities.

With three weeks remaining in the legislative session, ...

Choosing a jury for Sandusky case a trial unto itself

BELLEFONTE, Pa. — Picking 12 people to decide Jerry Sandusky's fate in the child-molestation case that brought down legendary coach Joe Paterno and scandalized Penn State could prove a monumental task in a county where practically everyone went to the university, or works there, or knows someone there or is ...

American Scene: State to mull NYC-wide ideas for center, casino

ALBANY — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says the world's top developers will soon compete to propose a convention center and casino in or close to New York City, possibly including Manhattan or the Belmont racetrack.

The process may take more than a year and depends on voters approving a ...

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