University of California police raided a four-week Occupy encampment at a college-owned farm used for agriculture research early Monday, arresting nine people after protesters ignored yet another weekend deadline to leave.
Mitt Romney's getting personal and getting tough.
As he swings across the country seeking votes in Super Tuesday states, the Republican presidential candidate's slick campaign machine is getting some fine-tuning.Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Visalia, is not running for the Senate seat now held by Democrat Dianne Feinstein, Nunes's chief of staff said Monday. While falling somewhat short of a flat-out political declaration of permanent disinterest, the statement Monday seemed to step back from the congressman's earlier suggestions that he might be enticed into the Senate race.
Pollution that blows hundreds of miles from coal-fired power plants into other states will be reduced under a final plan that the Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday.
Motorists across most of the country have been getting a break on the price of gas, but not on the West Coast.
Gov. Steve Beshear and first lady Jane Beshear used a state plane March 9 to go to the Southeastern Conference basketball tournament in New Orleans and take a side trip to Ocala, Fla., for Jane Beshear to visit friends.
Gov. Tom Corbett said he was disappointed by the responses of former Penn State President Graham Spanier and head football coach Joe Paterno to the sex abuse scandal involving a former university coach.
President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans are launching their next pitched battle over government and the economy, this one over whether the Obama administration’s regulation of American business is killing jobs.
The mother of an inmate who was struck by lightning while jogging in a recreation yard is accusing the Ohio prisons department of negligence that contributed to his death. The state is denying the claim.
The circus surrounding the Supreme Court health care arguments this week will begin before dawn Monday.