SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Leading oil industry groups said Thursday federal land managers are blocking new energy development and job creation by postponing all oil and gas lease auctions on prime public lands in California until October.
Officials with the American Petroleum Institute, the largest lobbying group for the oil and gas industry, said the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's recent announcement that it will temporarily put off energy leasing in the state will prevent...
BOSTON (AP) — The younger sister of the 8-year-old boy killed in the Boston Marathon bombings has undergone what her family calls a "milestone" 11th operation on her left leg, which she lost below the knee.
The family says in a statement that the operation Wednesday on 7-year-old Jane Richard at Boston Children's Hospital closed the wound and will allow for the fitting of a prosthesis.
The family says Jane also has had to deal with infections and...
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — A judge has set a July 18 trial date for an Air Force officer who led the branch's sex assault response unit until he himself was charged with sexual battery.
Lt. Col. Jeffrey Krusinski, 41, of Arlington, appeared Thursday at an arraignment in Arlington County General District Court.
Arlington police say he groped a woman in a parking lot early Sunday in a section of Crystal City that is home to several popular nightspots....
NEW YORK (AP) — A Tunisian man accused of radicalizing a Canadian resident charged in a plot to derail a train has been charged with trying to stay in the United States illegally to build a terrorism cell for international acts of terror such as poisoning a water system with bacteria, authorities said Thursday.
Law enforcement authorities had watched Ahmed Abassi since he arrived in the United States from Canada in mid-March and arrested him on April 22 at John F....
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Smithsonian Institution is adding relics from soap operas and game shows to its national entertainment collection to tell the story of daytime television.
On Thursday, actress Susan Lucci from TV's "All My Children" and Alex Trebek from "Jeopardy!" visited the National Museum of American History to donate objects from their shows. They were joined by the creators of "Barney" to show the range of daytime TV programs.
The new...
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nine years of litigation between a Hong Kong businessman and casino mogul Sheldon Adelson is drawing to a close.
Attorneys began delivering closing arguments in a Las Vegas courtroom Thursday in the dispute between Las Vegas Sands Corp. and a fixer who says he helped the casino giant win a license in the Chinese gambling enclave of Macau.
The lead attorney for Richard Suen argued that Sands owes Suen $328 million for setting up key...
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans are willing to give President Barack Obama a rare win, the chairman of the Education and Workforce Committee said Thursday in outlining a deal that would let college students avoid a costly hike on their student loans.
Rep. John Kline, R-Minn., told The Associated Press that his GOP-led panel would support an idea included in Obama's budget proposal that links the interest rates on student loans to market rates. To calm fears of...
WOBURN, Mass. (AP) — A tentative trial date has been set for an Irish nanny charged with murder in the death of a Massachusetts baby.
Aisling (ASH'-ling) Brady McCarthy has pleaded not guilty in the January death of Rehma Sabir (REM'-uh suh-BEHR'). The Cambridge, Mass., girl was hospitalized on her first birthday with severe head injuries and died two days later.
An April 7, 2014, trial date was set during a hearing Thursday in Middlesex Superior...
CLEVELAND (AP) — Cleveland police say the two brothers of the man accused of keeping women captive in his house have been released from custody.
Police announced on Thursday afternoon that 54-year-old Pedro Castro and 50-year-old Onil Castro had been released from jail. Police didn't release any more information, and the men's whereabouts were not immediately known.
They were arrested Monday with 52-year-old Ariel Castro, who is being held on $8...
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — The Washington state Administrative Office of the Courts was hacked sometime between last fall and February, and up to 160,000 Social Security numbers and 1 million driver's license numbers may have been accessed during the data breach of its public website, officials said Thursday.
Court officials said they have only confirmed that 94 Social Security numbers were obtained and they don't believe the larger number was compromised, but they wanted to...
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