By STEPHANIE NANO Associated Press
If you're in Vermont, Maine and Canada, you're in luck. But for the rest of the path of Monday's total solar eclipse, it could be dicey weather-wise.
Clouds are forecast for much of the eclipse route through the U.S. with some possible patches of clear ...
By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two influential lawmakers from opposing parties have crafted a deal on legislation designed to strengthen privacy protections for Americans' personal data.
The sweeping proposal announced Sunday evening would define privacy as a consumer ...
By MATTHEW BROWN and AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press
LIBBY, Mont. (AP) — It's been almost 25 years since federal authorities, responding to news reports of deaths and illnesses, descended on the small northwestern Montana town of Libby to clean it up. Now, some asbestos victims and their ...
CONWAY, Arkansas (AP) — Police in central Arkansas shot a man who later died after the man fired at officers at a shopping mall Saturday morning.
Conway police said on Facebook that officers responded to a report about a man who had driven a vehicle into a massage therapy business at the ...
By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer
WAXAHACHIE, Texas (AP) — The last time a total solar eclipse passed through this Texas town, horses and buggies filled the streets and cotton fetched 9 cents a pound. Nearly 150 years later, one thing hasn't changed: the threat of clouds blocking the ...
By CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's accelerated approval program is meant to give patients early access to promising drugs. But how often do these drugs actually improve or extend patients' lives?
In a new study, researchers found that most cancer ...
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A man was charged Sunday with setting a fire outside the Vermont office of U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, federal prosecutors said.
Shant Soghomonian, 35, who was previously of Northridge, California, entered the building on Friday and went to Sanders' third-floor office ...
By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Sophomore Christian Adams expected he would be studying Chinese when he enrolled at West Virginia University, with a dream of working in labor or immigration law.
He didn't foresee switching his major to politics, a change he ...
ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) — An eastern Pennsylvania man has been charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death of a 3-year-old boy who authorities say shot himself with a handgun left unattended last month.
Jose Hilario Abreu, 28, of Allentown was arraigned Friday on the charge as well as two ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A hardwood flooring manufacturer has agreed to acquire two sawmills from a West Virginia lumber company that shut down.
Mountville, Pennsylvania-based AHF Products said it will purchase Allegheny Wood Products sawmills in the Greenbrier County community of Smoot and ...
By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer
WAXAHACHIE, Texas (AP) — The last time a total solar eclipse passed through this Texas town, horses and buggies filled the streets and cotton fetched 9 cents a pound. Nearly 150 years later, one thing hasn't changed: the threat of clouds blocking the ...
CONWAY, Arkansas (AP) — Police in central Arkansas shot a man after he fired at officers from inside a business at a shopping mall Saturday morning.
Conway police said on Facebook that officers responded to a report about a man who had driven a vehicle into a massage therapy business at the ...
By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump's campaign is expecting to raise more than $40 million on Saturday when major donors gather for his biggest fundraiser yet.
The event at the Palm Beach, Florida, home of billionaire investor John Paulson is expected to ...
By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — The ground rumbled Friday beneath New York City, home to famous skyscrapers like the Empire State Building and One World Trade Center. Though buildings that can reach above 100 stories might seem especially vulnerable to earthquakes, ...
By DAVID SHARP Associated Press
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Democrat Joseph E. Brennan, whose hardscrabble childhood shaped his working-class views in a political career that included two terms as Maine's governor and two terms in the U.S. House, died Friday evening at his home in Portland. ...
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Power restoration efforts in Maine and New Hampshire entered another day on Saturday with more than 100,000 homes and businesses still in the dark several days after a storm brought powerful winds and heavy, wet snow.
Maine's largest electric utility warned that some ...
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Police in Vermont are seeking a suspect who allegedly started a fire Friday outside the office of U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders. The small blaze caused minor damages but no injuries.
Authorities say an unknown male suspect sprayed what they described as a possible ...
SISSONVILLE, W.Va. (AP) — A spill of firefighting foam has been detected in three southern West Virginia waterways, and potential downstream intakes have been notified, regulators said Saturday.
The state Department of Environmental Protection said an undetermined amount of the expanding ...
WHEELING, W.Va. (AP) — Storms and flooding in West Virginia have caused at least one death and washed out about 200 tombstones at a cemetery where graves date back to the early 1800's, officials said.
Valerie Ann Swisher, 49, died when the vehicle she was driving got stuck in high water and ...
By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press
A major spring storm brought heavy snow, rain and high winds to the Northeast, downing trees and power lines and leaving nearly 700,000 homes and businesses without power at one point. A woman was killed by a falling tree in a New York City suburb and a ...