A small, twin-engine aircraft with only the pilot inside crashed near a busy highway in Texas on Wed

A tornado tore through the Texas Panhandle town of Perryton on Thursday, killing three people, injur

America’s electric power industry is angling to get some of the 200,000 troops that return annually

PERRY, Iowa — Fran Ruhl's family received a startling letter from the Iowa Department of Human Servi

The average rate on a 30-year mortgage in the U.S. eased for the third week in a row, a welcome tren

Glassmaking in America has been in decline for at least a decade as manufacturers have moved product

There were times when Arlyn Schipper could almost feel heroic on his family farm in the heart of Ame

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — When disaster strikes, government emergency alert systems offer a simple promise:

There's been virtually no progress in reducing the number of women who die due to pregnancy or child

The collapse of Solyndra, the Silicon Valley startup that received a $535 million federal loan guara

Police in Plain City, Ohio, received a disturbing call Thursday afternoon — human remains had been f

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In a historic pledge, the European Union’s electric utilities announced on Wednesday they will no lo

UPS workers are gearing up for a potential strike that would be the biggest U.S. labor walkout since