Tag: Associated Press

Striking Chicago Public School teachers picket as Mayor Rahm Emanuel visits with students in Chicago in September 2012. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)

Retired Illinois teachers sue state over pension law

Associated Press · December 28, 2013 5:00 am

Dozens of people have claimed ownership of minerals from an oil well between the low- and high-water marks along the Missouri River. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Energy and Environment

North Dakota justices side with state in mineral rights case

Associated Press · December 28, 2013 5:00 am

Connecticut's Democratic Gov. Dannel Malloy, shown here in September 2012, is being challenged again by Tom Foley. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

GOP governors defend edge over Democrats in 2014

Associated Press · December 28, 2013 5:00 am

Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton speaks during a press conference at the state Capitol in St. Paul on Dec. 19. (AP Photo/The Star Tribune, Elizabeth Flores, File)

Mark Dayton says he’ll report $1 million raised for campaign

Associated Press · December 28, 2013 5:00 am

President Obama and the first family is in Hawaii for their annual holiday vacation. (AP/Carolyn Kaster)

Official business behind him, Obama looks to 2014

Associated Press · December 27, 2013 5:00 am

Stock futures were moving slightly higher Friday, as investors remain positive about the U.S. economic recovery going into the end of the year. (AP/Richard Drew)

US stock futures edge higher in quiet session

Associated Press · December 27, 2013 5:00 am

The annual NORAD Tracks Santa Operation, at the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, at Peterson Air Force Base, in Colorado Springs, Colo. (AP/Brennan Linsley)

NORAD Tracks Santa logs 19.58 million web visits

Associated Press · December 27, 2013 5:00 am

The Clinic, a Denver-based dispensary with several outlets, is among the roughly 150 medical marijuana dispensaries hoping to begin selling to recreational users when it becomes legal to sell on Jan. 1, 2014. (AP/Brennan Linsley)

Denver gives out recreational pot sales licenses

Associated Press · December 27, 2013 5:00 am

Former U.S. Sen. Larry Pressler, announces Thursday, Dec. 26, 2013, in Souix Falls, S.D., that he is running as an independent for Tim Johnson's senate seat. Pressler, 71, served three Senate terms as a Republican from 1979 to 1997. He lost a 1996 re-election bid to Democrat Tim Johnson, who is not seeking re-election next year after also serving three terms. (AP Photo/The Argus Leader, Elisha Page) NO SALES

Former South Dakota Sen. Larry Pressler running as independent

Carson Walker · December 27, 2013 5:00 am

Indiana Gov. Mike Pence sings Jingle Bells with preschool students Friday, Dec. 20, 2013, at Jay County High School in Portland, Ind. (AP Photo/The Commercial Review, Ray Cooney) THE STAR PRESS OUT

Pence wants Indiana tax credit for adoptive parents

Washington Examiner · December 26, 2013 5:00 am

A long line of job seekers wait outside the Ferguson Community Center in Cordova, Tenn. The Labor Department reports on the number of Americans who applied for unemployment benefits in the last week on Dec. 26. (AP/The Commercial Appeal, Jim Weber)

Weekly US jobless claims drop 42,000 to 338,000

Associated Press · December 26, 2013 5:00 am

FILE - In this Friday, Dec. 20, 2013 file photo, Chris Serrano, left, and Clifton Webb kiss after being married, as people wait in line to get licenses outside of the marriage division of the Salt Lake County Clerk's Office in Salt Lake City. The last six months of 2013 have provided a frenzy of court decisions and laws in favor of gay marriage, punctuated by a ruling in heavily Mormon Utah that has allowed hundreds of same-sex couples to wed in the last week. The U.S. Supreme Court opened the floodgates with its June ruling that overturned a 1996 ban on gay marriage, and the change has been swift. Judges in Utah, New Mexico and Ohio have all ruled in favor of gay marriage in the past week. (AP Photo/Kim Raff, File)

Holdouts in Utah now letting gay couples wed

Associated Press · December 26, 2013 5:00 am