Tag: Associated Press

The Connecticut Rail Commuter Council is struggling to expand its oversight beyond Metro-North Railroad. (AP File)

Panel overseeing railroad in December fatal crash off to rocky start

Associated Press · January 7, 2014 5:00 am

A bipartisan group of Virginia House delegates wants to place a $250 limit on gifts to lawmakers from lobbyists and others who do business with the commonwealth while also creating a new commission to advise and train elected officials about ethics laws. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Virginia lawmakers propose limits on personal gifts

Washington Examiner · January 7, 2014 5:00 am

Massachusetts' cities and towns have shed more than 15,000 jobs in the past six years, and pension obligations, health care and borrowing costs will continue to squeeze budgets for the foreseeable future, according to a report issued on Tuesday. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Report: Unfunded costs choking budgets in Massachusetts

Washington Examiner · January 7, 2014 5:00 am

Protesters march in Santa Rosa, Calif., on Oct. 29 to protest the fatal shooting of a 13-year-old boy by a sheriff's deputy. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

California officials: Protests over police-involved shooting have cost $225,000

Associated Press · January 7, 2014 5:00 am

Gunmen gather in a street as they chant slogans against Iraq's Shiite-led government and demand that the Iraqi army not try to enter the city in Fallujah, 40 miles west of Baghdad. Fierce clashes erupted between Iraqi special forces and al Qaeda-linked militants outside the city of Fallujah, a flare-up in a days-long standoff in the Sunni-dominated western province of Anbar, Iraqi officials said. The banner in Arabic reads, "Alboalon tribe demanding that the Iraqi army not to enter Fallujah." (AP Photo)

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Iraqi government: Airstrike kills 25 militants

Washington Examiner · January 7, 2014 5:00 am

Two Kentucky Republicans who served on a special investigative state House committee accused majority Democrats of disbanding the panel last year without fully investigating sexual harassment allegations against former Rep. John Arnold.

Review of ex-lawmaker stirs debate in Kentucky House

Associated Press · January 7, 2014 5:00 am

Four ringleaders coached former New York City workers on how to falsely describe symptoms of depression and other mental health problems that allowed them to get payouts high as $500,000, said Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. (AP File)

Former New York City workers charged in disability scam

Associated Press · January 7, 2014 5:00 am

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Oil prices bolstered by severe US cold snap

Pablo Gorondi · January 7, 2014 5:00 am

The West Virginia House of Delegates leadership plans to focus on government accountability and integrity during the 2014 legislative session. (Photo: Thinkstock)

West Virginia House leaders to focus on good government

Washington Examiner · January 7, 2014 5:00 am

In this photo taken on Thursday, Dec. 26, 2013, Shelly Eyre, left, holds the marriage license just issued to her and her partner Cheryl Haws at the Utah County Clerk's office in Provo, Utah. The Supreme Court has put same-sex marriages on hold in Utah, at least while a federal appeals court more fully considers the issue. (AP Photo/The Daily Herald, Mark Johnston)

Supreme Court puts Utah same-sex marriage on hold

Mark Sherman · January 6, 2014 5:05 pm

In this Monday, Dec. 16, 2013, photo, Army Staff Sgt. Oskar Zepeda poses for a photo at the entrance to a Digital Forensics Lab at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Seattle, where he is serving a one-year internship. Zepeda, who served nine tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, before being wounded, is part of a 17-member class of veterans deployed to ICE field offices throughout the country to use his newly acquired skills in computer forensics to help capture and prosecute child predators. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Wounded veterans work to put away child predators

Kevin Freking · January 6, 2014 3:05 pm

President Obama gets back to work this week eager to test whether a modest budget deal passed in the waning days of 2013 can spark bipartisan momentum on Capitol Hill. As he opens his sixth year in office, he also faces legacy-defining decisions on the future of government surveillance programs and the American-led war in Afghanistan. (AP/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama eyes modest momentum on Capitol Hill in 2014

Julie Pace · January 6, 2014 9:09 am