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The gnarled icon of the Old West — ominously featured in movies as gunslingers square off on dusty streets and townsfolk shake behind curtained windows — rolled in over the weekend and kept rolling until blanketing some homes and streets in suburban Salt Lake City. Crews this week continued to plow, load and haul carcasses [...]
The Miami Archdiocese’s superintendent of schools says Catholic education is increasingly in demand in south Florida, now that families of all K-12 students regardless of income are allowed to use taxpayer-funded programs to pay for private-school tuition. Against the backdrop of favorable decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court, Florida was among nine states that expanded [...]
ALBION, Pa. (AP) — "You are the Lighthouse in someone's storm," reads the message above a mural of a sailboat bobbing on ocean waves under a cloud-dappled azure sky. It's an unexpected slogan for a prison wall. On a nearby door painted deep blue, a bright yellow Minion character offers "Ways to say hello," lists [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Army is slashing the size of its force by about 24,000, or almost 5 percent, and, according to military officials, restructuring to be better able to fight the next major war. The service has struggled with recruiting shortfalls that made it impossible to bring in enough soldiers to fill all [...]
The first electric school buses in the United States began running a decade ago in three school districts in California, providing a ride that was less noisy, smelly and dirty than the diesel buses kids and parents were used to. Despite the availability of the technology since then, however, fewer than 1 percent of the [...]
WESTROZEBEKE, Belgium — It was the puddles of green sludge left by the tires of massive tractors in western Belgium's industrial farmlands that drew the attention of biological engineer Ineke Maes. The slime was destructive algae, the result of the excess of chemicals used by farmers to boost their crops, but at a high cost [...]
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Drivers in eight Midwestern states will be able to fuel up with a higher blend of ethanol throughout the year under a final rule announced last week by the Environmental Protection Agency. The biofuels industry and farming groups, with support of Midwest governors, sought the end of a summertime ban [...]
Federal regulators have granted Native American tribes more power to block hydropower projects on their land after a flurry of applications were filed to expand renewable energy in the water-scarce Southwest. Previously, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission granted developers approval to move ahead with planning even if tribes objected. That practice came to an end [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans applying for jobless benefits fell to its lowest level in five weeks, even as more high-profile companies announce layoffs. Applications for unemployment benefits fell by 12,000 to 201,000 for the week ending Feb. 17, the Labor Department reported. The four-week average of claims, a less volatile measure, fell [...]
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