Tag: Associated Press

$Election judge Rich Korinek, left, tallies ballots during a recount of Broomfield's vote on a county-wide hydraulic fracturing ban, at a city and county building, in Broomfield, Colo., on Monday. (AP/Brennan Linsley)$ Energy and Environment

Fracking ban wins on recount, but questions linger

Associated Press · December 4, 2013 5:00 am

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov speaks during a media conference after a meeting of the NATO-Russia Council at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2013. NATO foreign ministers met their Russian counterpart on Wednesday to discuss, among other issues, the situation in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

National Security

Russia: Iran deal ends need for missile defense

Washington Examiner · December 4, 2013 5:00 am

A Windsor Mill couple has pleaded to food stamp fraud in a plot to redeem the benefits in exchange for cash.

Maryland store owners plead guilty to food stamp fraud

Associated Press · December 4, 2013 5:00 am

Democrats in Congress are preparing a new proposal to hike the minimum wage to $10.10, with the increases to come in three steps ending in 2015.

D.C. Council unanimously approves minimum wage hike

Associated Press, Ben Nuckols · December 4, 2013 5:00 am

Last summer, irrigation water was shut off to hundreds of upper basin ranches after the Klamath Tribes exercised newly acquired water rights to protect fish in rivers running through former reservation lands. (AP Photo)

Energy and Environment

Task force wrapping up work on Klamath water deal

Associated Press · December 4, 2013 5:00 am

An animal rights group is asking New York courts to recognize scientific evidence of emotional and cognitive abilities in chimpanzees and to grant the animals "legal personhood" so that they are ensured better treatment. (AP/David J. Phillip)

Group seeks ‘personhood’ for 4 chimps in New York

Associated Press · December 4, 2013 5:00 am

A federal judge has refused to reinstate the license of the pilot of the oil tanker that sideswiped the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge six years ago, causing a 50,000-gallon oil spill. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

Energy and Environment

Oil tanker pilot who struck Bay Bridge won’t get license back

Washington Examiner · December 3, 2013 5:00 am

White House press secretary Jay Carney answers a question during the daily press briefing, Monday, Dec. 2, 2013, in the White House briefing room in Washington. Carney answered questions on the ongoing rollout of the Healthcare.gov website. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Year-end signups crucial test for health care site

Associated Press, Ricardo AlonsoZaldivar · December 3, 2013 5:00 am

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (AP/The Olympian, Steve Bloom)

Washington to regain some long-term jobless benefits

Associated Press · December 3, 2013 5:00 am

Mike Phillips, and other union protesters, supporters, and labor leaders boo Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn in protest saying he is betraying the Democratic party's tradition of supporting working men and women. (AP/Seth Perlman)

Illinois lawmakers convening special session on pensions

Kerry Lester · December 3, 2013 5:00 am

A B-25 bomber lands at Wright Patterson Air Force base in Dayton, Ohio. (AP/Mark Duncan)

Ohio military base looking to privatize utilities

Associated Press · December 3, 2013 5:00 am

This Oct. 24, 2012 file photo shows an empty field north of Detroit's downtown. (AP/Carlos Osorio)

Detroit to get crucial ruling in bankruptcy case

Ed White · December 3, 2013 5:00 am