Tag: Associated Press

Howard Kraft looks over healthcare information in his Lincolnton, N.C., home Dec. 30. (AP/Nell Redmond)

Health overhaul benefits take effect with new year

Juliet Williams · January 2, 2014 5:00 am

Energy and Environment

Illinois preps for possibility of wolf population

Michael Tarm · January 2, 2014 5:00 am

National Security

Egypt airs what it claims is terror confession

Maggie Michael · January 2, 2014 5:00 am

These file photos show Democrats Senators, from left, Mary Landrieu, D-La., Mark Pryor, D-Ark., and Kay Hagan, D-N.C. (AP images)

GOP, Dems try to repackage arguments for 2014

Bill Barrow · January 1, 2014 5:00 am

Walgreen Co. will fill prescriptions at no upfront cost to some patients who don't have all the information they need for coverage received through the health care overhaul. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

Walgreen offers prescription help tied to overhaul

Associated Press · December 31, 2013 5:00 am

Maryland lawmakers will look at the possibility of expanding a tax credit aimed at boosting jobs in the growing cybersecurity industry around the nation's capital, House Speaker Michael Busch said. (AP/Patrick Semansky)

Maryland House speaker says tax credit for cybersecurity may expand

Brian Witte · December 31, 2013 5:00 am

Customers shop at a Costco in Mexico City on Dec. 28. Mexican shoppers are expected to spend even more on the U.S. side of the border when Mexican sales taxes in some regions go up from 11 percent to 16 percent in the new year. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)

Mexican sales tax hike seen as boon on U.S. border

Washington Examiner · December 31, 2013 5:00 am

A New Jersey-based dairy company that sells to stores and schools in the Northeast and to federal agencies has settled claims of sex and race discrimination.

NJ dairy to pay $324k over race, sex bias claims

Associated Press · December 31, 2013 5:00 am

Judge scolds government over immigrant documents

Larry Neumeister · December 31, 2013 5:00 am

FILE - In this June 11, 2007 file photo, Dallas billionaire Harold Simmons is photographed in his North Dallas office. The deaths this year of three major Texas Republican donors, including a billionaire who died over the weekend, could signal a generational change for party kingmakers in the nationÃ?s largest GOP stronghold. Harold SimmonsÃ? death Saturday came after Republicans lost home builder Bob Perry in April and businessman Leo Linbeck Jr. in June. For decades, all three helped bankroll political campaigns both in Texas and nationwide. (AP Photo/The Dallas Morning News, Tom Fox)

Texas Republicans lose 3 major donors in 2013

Associated Press · December 31, 2013 5:00 am

NASA's Global Hawk pilotless aircraft sits in a hangar after arriving from a science mission monitoring tropical storm Gabrielle, during a survey of unmanned aircraft and related systems developed by the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. (AP/Reed Saxon)

Virginia, New Jersey and Maryland to collaborate on drone testing

Steve Szkotak · December 31, 2013 5:00 am

Justice Sonia Sotomayor delays health law’s birth control mandate

Associated Press · December 31, 2013 5:00 am