Senators resist Obama over projects in health bill WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama says he wants projects helping specific states yanked from the health care bill Congress is writing. Democratic senators, being senators, beg to differ....
Iraq's PM leads in early Baghdad vote count BAGHDAD (AP) -- A coalition led by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki was winning in the all-important capital, according to a partial tally of results released Saturday....
Mom says daughter held in Ireland in terror plot DENVER (AP) -- Jamie Paulin-Ramirez was a straight-A nursing student when she abruptly left Colorado last fall with her 6-year-old son and turned up in Ireland, where her parents say she was arrested this week in an alleged plot to assassinate a Swedish cartoonist....
7 straight months of upturn; Year-to-year index still down
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The latest Arizona State University-Repeat Sales Index shows the Valley’s median existing home price increased for the seventh straight month, reaching $130,000 in September compared to $126,500 in August.The report shows Valley home prices... Full story
EDITOR'S NOTE: One in a series of stories assessing how last fall's financial meltdown and the Great Recession have changed our lives.
NEW YORK (AP) — Where do we go from here?
A year after edging dangerously close to free fall, there... Full story
HONOLULU (AP) -- Stinky city bus riders soon could get soaked. The Honolulu City Council is considering a bill that would impose up to a $500 fine and/or up to six months in jail for public transit passengers convicted of being too smelly.
The bill... Full story