SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- California Gov. Jerry Brown and state legislators were granted 5.2 percent raises Wednesday by a state panel that said the improving state economy and a flush budget justified restoring some of the salary cut from officials' ...
The down-on-his-luck singer sat on the steps of Nashville's famed Grand Ole Opry, bemoaning the job he'd just lost at a radio station, when out walked country legend Hank Williams.
The celebrated but troubled singer and songwriter, who had just ...
DETROIT -- The umpteenth dig for Jimmy Hoffa may have unearthed zilch, but the FBI's decades-old search for the famous Teamsters leader is far from over.
"It remains an open investigation," FBI spokesman Simon Shaykhet said Wednesday, shortly ...
LOS ANGELES--James Gandolfini, the barrel-chested actor forever known to millions of TV fans as mobster Tony Soprano on the HBO series "The Sopranos," has died at the age of 51.
"Our hearts are shattered and we will miss him deeply. He and his ...
WASHINGTON -- The design for a memorial to former President Dwight D. Eisenhower, more than 10 years in the planning, has so divided supporters and critics that the commission created to build it gave up trying to find a compromise and defiantly ...
MIAMI--The U.S. State Department confirmed Wednesday that U.S. and Cuban officials will meet July 17 in Washington to resume long-suspended migration talks, but said the talks do not represent a change in U.S. policy toward the island.
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