GLEN ELLYN, Ill. (AP) — Authorities say a limousine driver who erratically drove more than 20 suburban Chicago teenagers to a prom had an alcohol level nearly three-times the legal limit.
Richard L. Madison says he wasn't intoxicated and that mechanical problems caused his erratic driving Saturday as he took the teenagers from Oswego East High School to their prom at a banquet hall near Glen Ellyn.
But a DuPage County sheriff's report says a...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is dismissing Republican criticism of his administration's handling of the attack on a U.S. diplomatic post in Libya, calling the criticism a political sideshow.
In his words, "there is no there there," Obama told a news conference Monday.
He was asked about recent disclosures that talking points on the attack produced by the intelligence community were later watered down to delete references to suspected ties...
WASHINGTON (AP) — White House spokesman Jay Carney says the IRS inspector general notified the White House counsel's office during the week of April 22 that it was completing a review of the IRS office in Cincinnati that targeted conservative political groups for special examination. Carney says the counsel's office was not given details about the review.
Carney said President Barack Obama was not told about the review, and he reiterated Obama's assertion Monday that he...
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — When Jonnie R. Williams believed he had discovered a way to make tobacco less harmful, the Virginia car salesman-turned-entrepreneur tried to sell his method to anyone who would listen.
Persistent phone calls to the nation's top cigarette makers often started with the colorful venture capitalist, once dubbed a "super salesman" by a local newspaper, dropping names and promising the world.
"He knew anybody and everybody and they...
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are mixed in midday trading, pausing a record-breaking stock rally even after the government reported that Americans increased spending last month.
The Dow fell 22.86, or 0.2 percent, to 15,096 as of 11:50 Eastern Daylight Time. The Standard and Poor's 500 index added a fraction to 1,634. They both closed at record highs Friday.
The Nasdaq composite rose 5 points to 3,442.
Retail sales increased 0.1 percent...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama tried to swat down a pair of brewing controversies Monday, denouncing as "outrageous" the targeting of conservative political groups by the federal IRS but angrily denying any administration cover-up after last year's deadly attacks in Benghazi, Libya.
Simultaneous investigations — and demands by Republicans for more — have put the White House on the defensive, emboldened GOP lawmakers and threatened to overtake a second-term...
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A landmark $240 million verdict awarded to 32 mentally disabled Iowa plant workers who were subjected to years of abuse by their handlers will be reduced to just $1.6 million because of a federal cap, attorneys in the case agree.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Henry's Turkey Service agreed in legal briefs filed late Friday that under federal law, each plaintiff can only recover $50,000 apiece — a far cry from the $7.5 million a...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI says 47 law enforcement officers were killed in the line of duty as the result of criminal acts last year, 25 fewer than in 2011.
According to the preliminary data, the offenders who committed the killings used firearms in 43 of the 47 deaths. Two officers were killed with vehicles used as weapons, one was killed with a knife and one officer died after being beaten.
Twenty of the slain officers were wearing body armor at the...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Cancer patients could face high costs for medications under President Barack Obama's health care law, industry analysts and advocates warn.
Where you live could make a huge difference in what you'll pay.
To try to keep premiums low, some states are allowing insurers to charge patients a hefty share of the cost for expensive medications used to treat cancer, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis and other life-altering chronic...
NEW YORK (AP) — The government is running out of time to try to halt implementation of a federal judge's ruling that would lift age restrictions for women and girls wanting to buy the morning-after pill.
U.S. District Judge Edward Korman in Brooklyn last week refused to delay enforcement of his month-old decision while the government challenges his ruling, but said it would have until Monday to appeal to the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan....
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