Tag: Associated Press

US economy grew at 2.5 percent rate in spring

Associated Press, Martin Crutsinger · August 29, 2013 12:00 am

Soldier sentenced to death for Fort Hood shooting

Michael Graczyk · August 28, 2013 4:00 am

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Prison guard union deal includes 4-percent raise

Associated Press · August 27, 2013 4:00 am

Marine Corps veteran Mac McQuown walks up Dexter Avenue to the historic Alabama Capitol in Montgomery, Ala. (AP/Dave Martin)

VA opens clinic for female veterans

Associated Press · August 27, 2013 4:00 am

Ballooning costs for Social Security and Medicare as the U.S. population ages are expected to result in growing long-term budget deficits. (Thinkstock Image)

Economists: future deficits top US fiscal problem

Associated Press · August 27, 2013 4:00 am

In this Aug. 21, 2013 photo, Lynn Phillips, of Rudich Farms in Ray Township, Mich., accepts EBT tokens from Orion Township residents Amy Weronka, right, and her daughter Diana in exchange for produce at the Lake Orion, Mich., Farmers Market.

Food stamp use growing at Michigan farmers markets

Washington Examiner · August 26, 2013 4:00 am

FILE - In this May 9, 2013 file photo, Stephen Acquario, executive director of the New York State Association of Counties, attends a news conference in the Red Room at the Capitol in Albany, N.Y. Acquario is among hundreds of lobbyists in at least 20 states who get public pensions because they represent associations of counties, cities and school boards, an Associated Press review found. (AP Photo/Mike Groll, File)

Private lobbyists get public pensions in 20 states

Associated Press · August 25, 2013 4:00 am

A Syrian army soldier walks on a street in the Jobar neighborhood of Damascus, Syria, on Saturday. (AP)

Syria warns US not to intervene militarily

Albert Aji, Associated Press · August 24, 2013 4:00 am

Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., arrives to speak at a rally to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Saturday, Aug. 24, 2013, in Washington. Tens of thousands of people marched to the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial and down the National Mall on Saturday, to commemorate King's famous ""I Have a Dream" speech, made Aug. 28, 1963, during the March on Washington, and pledging that his dream includes equality for gays, Latinos, the poor and the disabled. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Who’s on: Guest lineups for the Sunday talk shows

Associated Press · August 24, 2013 4:00 am

FILE - In this June 3, 2013 file photo, farmer David Schwabauer, a partner/manager of Leavens Ranches, a fourth-generation avocado and lemon grower, tours his property's irrigation system in Moorpark, Calif. For years Schwabauer has watched groundwater levels retreat with higher demand from encroaching development, forcing ranchers and farmers to sink piping deeper into the earth or drill expensive, new wells for irrigation. In the heat of summer, he pumps 3,000 gallons a minute for his thirsty trees. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Energy and Environment

Millions spent on California water-storage plan that leaks

Associated Press · August 24, 2013 4:00 am

Red Alert Politics

Brazilian phone app allows jealous lovers to keep track of their partner’s whereabouts

Kaitlyn Schallhorn · August 23, 2013 5:54 pm

Columns of smoke rising from heavy shelling in the Jobar neighborhood in west Damascus, Syria. (AP/Hassan Ammar)

Obama plays down prospect of US intervention in Syria

Bradley Klapper · August 23, 2013 4:00 am