SINGAPORE (AP) — Boeing Co., the world's second-largest plane maker, is frustrated with the latest 787 Dreamliner production glitch, but it shouldn't delay output goals, a top executive said Sunday.
Boeing has fixed a shimming problem discovered earlier this month on some 787 fuselages and plans to inspect other planes ...
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Lawyers for a man who was sexually abused decades ago by a priest at a Wisconsin school for the deaf have withdrawn their lawsuit naming Pope Benedict XVI and other top Vatican officials as defendants.
Attorney Jeff Anderson filed the lawsuit in 2010. He claimed that Benedict, ...
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A dream honeymoon to scuba dive on Australia's Great Barrier Reef turned into a terrible nightmare, and the horror is about to play out years later in a courtroom in Alabama.
An Alabama man who already served prison time in Australia after pleading guilty to a ...
BOSTON — Troy Schoeller admits he could have chosen his words more carefully when he talked to a reporter about bodies he worked on as an embalmer at a funeral home.
Among a litany of graphic remarks Mr. Schoeller made was that he hates embalming fat people. He also described ...
ANALYSIS/OPINION:
Democrats are, and have always been, getting their way on taxing and spending. Here's proof of that: Government spending went up in 2011, despite the debt-ceiling showdown over the summer and at least three potential government shutdowns.
In fact, that is the reason - not obstinacy, not partisanship, not ...
DETROIT — Seven members of a Midwest militia accused of plotting to overthrow the government are set to stand trial, where jurors will decide whether federal authorities prevented an attack by homegrown extremists or simply made too much of weekend warriors' boasts to "take our nation back."
Opening statements are ...
ALABAMA
Murder trial set in honeymoon death
BIRMINGHAM — A dream honeymoon to scuba dive on Australia's Great Barrier Reef turned into a terrible nightmare, and the horror is about to play out years later in a courtroom in Alabama.
An Alabama man who already served prison time in Australia ...
A little-noticed proposed change in Internal Revenue Service regulations could have devastating effects for charter school teachers by making them ineligible for state retirement plans, and they could stand to lose much of the money that they already have accrued.
The proposed rule, released with little fanfare near the end ...
DALLAS | Diane Aulger was about two weeks from her delivery date when she and her husband decided there was no time to wait: Mark Aulger had only days to live, and he wanted to see his child.
Mrs. Aulger had her labor induced and gave birth to their daughter ...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Human remains uncovered in Northern California with the help of a convicted serial killer have been preliminarily identified as one of his victims.
San Joaquin sheriff's spokesman Les Garcia says dental records identified the remains found Thursday in Calaveras County as those of Cyndi Vanderheiden.
Garcia ...
ANALYSIS/OPINION:
Barack Obama thought he was only picking a fight with the Roman Catholic bishops. He thought he could limit the argument over his health care mandate to a controversy over condoms.
He's getting a bigger fight than he imagined.
Condoms were once limited to dispensing machines in men's rooms ...
CHICAGO — Nearly 1 in 20 Americans older than 50 have artificial knees, or more than 4 million people, according to the first national estimate showing how common these replacement joints have become in an aging population.
Doctors know the number of knee replacement operations has surged in the past ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The former third-grade teacher charged with committing lewd acts on students was paid $40,000 to drop an appeal of his firing, a newspaper reported Friday.
The Los Angeles Unified School District settled with Mark Berndt because it couldn't defend his February 2011 firing, district general counsel ...
BELLEFONTE, Pa. — Jerry Sandusky walked out of a courthouse Friday where a judge was considering whether to let him see his relatives and friends while he awaits trial on child sex-abuse charges and told reporters Friday he felt people have turned on him.
The judge could rule early next ...
SAN ANDREAS, Calif. — Searchers using information provided by a convicted California serial killer have recovered the remains of a second person.
San Joaquin County sheriff's spokesman Les Garcia says specially trained dogs led searchers to a partial human skull and bones in Calaveras County around 11 a.m. Friday.
Authorities ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of people seeking unemployment aid neared a four-year low last week, an encouraging sign that strong hiring could continue in the coming months.
The Labor Department said Thursday that weekly applications for unemployment benefits fell 15,000 to a seasonally adjusted 358,000. That's the second-lowest level ...
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Thursday will free 10 states from the strict and sweeping requirements of the No Child Left Behind law, giving leeway to states that promise to improve how they prepare and evaluate students, the Associated Press has learned.
The first 10 states to receive the ...
WASHINGTON — Squeezed by a tight job market, young Americans are especially struggling. They have suffered bigger income losses than other age groups and are less likely to be employed than at any time since World War II.
An analysis by the Pew Research Center, released Thursday, details the impact ...
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Supporters of a war memorial cross deemed unconstitutional last year by a federal court plan to ask the Supreme Court to reverse the decision, amid a growing fight nationwide over the use of religious symbols to honor fallen troops.
A nonprofit legal firm, Liberty Institute in Washington, planned ...
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — Eastman Kodak Co. said Thursday it will stop making digital cameras, pocket video cameras and digital picture frames, marking the end of an era for the company that brought photography to the masses more than a century ago.
Founded by George Eastman in 1880, Kodak was ...