Tag: Associated Press

The Great Plains Synfuels Plant near Beulah, N.D. Bismarck-based Dakota Gasification Co. approved plans to add a urea fertilizer production facility at the plant. (AP Photo/Bismarck Tribune, Lauren Donovan)

Energy and Environment

North Dakota synfuels plant to add $402m fertilizer facility

Associated Press · January 29, 2014 5:00 am

Customers walk to the the Indiana Food Market in Philadelphia. (AP/Matt Rourke)

Group aims to improve food at Pennsylvania corner stores

Kathy Matheson · January 29, 2014 5:00 am

The House has passed an almost $100 billion-a-year, compromise farm bill that would make small cuts to food stamps and continue generous subsidies for the nation's farmers.

House passes farm bill, crop subsidies preserved

MARY CLARE JALONICK · January 29, 2014 5:00 am

Several warehouse workers marched through a northwestern Indiana Walmart store as they protested what they called freezing work conditions. (AP/Jae C. Hong)

Walmart warehouse workers protest work conditions

Associated Press · January 29, 2014 5:00 am

The Air Force's nuclear missile corps faces new strains after dozens more officers were implicated in an investigation of cheating on missile-launch proficiency tests. The number implicated in the probe has roughly doubled from the original 34 officers, meaning that about 14 percent of all launch officers are now sidelined. (AP image)

National Security

Expansion of cheating probe adds to nuke burden

Robert Burns · January 29, 2014 5:00 am

National Security

North Korea warns of tensions over US-South Korea war games

Eric Talmadge · January 29, 2014 12:00 am

Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne, left, and the state have reached a settlement agreement with an employee in his office who claimed she faced retaliation after telling the FBI Horne may have violated campaign finance laws. (AP/Ross D. Franklin)

Deal reached in whistleblower suit against Attorney General Tom Horne

Associated Press · January 28, 2014 5:00 am

Debbie Jurcak, a mother of three, works on an application for state aid at her apartment in Aurora, Ill. Jurcak, 43, was among many Americans who lost unemployment benefits in late December. On the verge of eviction, she and her husband sought the help of faith-based organizations to help them pay rent. (AP/Martha Irvine)

‘Long-term unemployment’ — one mom’s story

Martha Irvine · January 28, 2014 5:00 am

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington on Nov. 13.

John McCain: Arizona GOP censure may spur sixth run

Associated Press · January 28, 2014 5:00 am

An owner of a major Illinois hospice-care provider encouraged subordinates to extend end-of-life care to patients who weren't actually terminally ill and to fraudulently switch to categories of care that would generate far higher Medicare and Medicaid payments, according to federal charges announced on Monday. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Illinois hospice company owner charged with fraud

Washington Examiner · January 28, 2014 5:00 am

Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin arrives at the Hale Boggs Federal Building in New Orleans, Monday, Jan. 27, 2014. Jury selection began Monday in the trial of Nagin, who faces charges that he accepted bribes and free trips among other things from contractors in exchange for helping them secure millions of dollars in city work. (AP Photo/Jonathan Bachman)

Bribery trial opens for ex-New Orleans mayor

Washington Examiner · January 28, 2014 5:00 am

North Carolina's unemployment rate is being announced for the first time since Gov. Pat McCrory started taking credit for an economic comeback he says resulted from Republican tax cuts and fewer business regulations. (AP/Chuck Burton)

North Carolina’s jobless rate to test Gov. Pat McCrory comeback claim

Associated Press · January 28, 2014 5:00 am