Tag: Associated Press

FILE - In this Sunday, Nov. 17, 2013, file photo, a guard tower, lower right, from Louisiana State Penitentiary, also known as "Angola" and "The Farm" is lowered into the construction site of The National Museum of African American History and Culture, beside the Washington Monument, in Washington. The government reports on U.S. construction spending in November on Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

US construction spending up 1 percent in November

Josh Boak · January 2, 2014 5:00 am

Sean Azzariti, a former Marine who served in the Iraq war and has post-traumatic stress disorder, shakes hands and thanks store owner Toni Fox, after Azzariti was the first to buy retail marijuana at 3D Cannabis Center, which opened as a legal recreational retail outlet in Denver on Jan. 1. (AP/Brennan Linsley)

Legal weed sales bring long lines to Colorado

Kristen Wyatt · January 2, 2014 5:00 am

Tom Buffenbarger, the president of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers who has forced a vote on a pension-freezing Boeing contract proposal, once called those retirement plans sacred and derided alternatives as risky. (AP Photo/Ron Wurzer)

Machinists chief once called pensions ‘sacred’

Washington Examiner · January 2, 2014 5:00 am

Kurt Mix, center, arrives at the Hale Boggs Federal Building in New Orleans, Tuesday, Dec. 3. (AP/Jonathan Bachman)

Energy and Environment

Ex-BP engineer’s lawyers to ask for new trial

Associated Press · January 2, 2014 5:00 am

Jona Caldwell joins a long line of job seekers outside the Ferguson Community Center in Cordova, Tenn. (AP/Jim Weber)

Weekly US unemployment benefit claims fall to 339,000

Christopher Rugaber · January 2, 2014 5:00 am

The Dow Jones industrial average was down 91 points, or 0.6 percent, at 16,486 in early trading Thursday. (AP/Seth Wenig)

Stocks open 2014 lower on Wall Street

Associated Press · January 2, 2014 5:00 am

White House economist Gene Sperling says restoring the benefits would lead to the creation of 200,000 jobs and economic growth. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

White House calls for passage of jobless benefits

Washington Examiner · January 2, 2014 5:00 am

California bullet train in limbo after legal setbacks

Washington Examiner · January 2, 2014 5:00 am

FILE - In this Oct. 6, 2006 file photo, flowers, fall foliage and 6,288-foot Mt. Washington serve as a backdrop for a family picture at Crawford Notch State Park in New Hampshire. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

Bill changes who gets free admission to New Hampshire parks

Washington Examiner · January 2, 2014 5:00 am

This Sept. 5, 2012 photo released by Portage County Jail shows Charles Jost, 67, of Amherst, Wis. Jost, one of three Wisconsin residents accused of cashing the Social Security checks of a relative who's presumed dead ,was found not guilty this week by reason of mental defect, after a medical expert testified that the man may have failed to understand he was breaking the law. (AP/Portage County Jail)

Wisconsin man not guilty in Social Security fraud case

Associated Press · January 2, 2014 5:00 am

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Study: Texting, dialing while driving raises crash risk, but maybe not talking

Washington Examiner · January 2, 2014 5:00 am

The latest state report shows pay for Idaho state workers is about 29 percent lower than private-sector wages, and about 10 percent lower than rates in surrounding states. (AP File)

Pay for Idaho state workers continues to fall

Washington Examiner · January 2, 2014 5:00 am