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Showdown set

Mar 19, 2010 6:53 am

WASHINGTON ? Historic health care change in the balance, Democrats plowed fresh billions into insurance subsidies for consumers on Thursday and added a $250 rebate for seniors facing high prescription...

Kentucky soars past ETSU in opener

Mar 19, 2010 6:53 am

NEW ORLEANS ? ... Control tower, this is Kentucky basketball coach John Calipari "¦ requesting a Flyby.

Big and Bad

Mar 19, 2010 6:44 am

Dirt. Exhaust. Screaming fans. The sound of crushing metal.

Prepping for the show

Mar 19, 2010 6:43 am

T"he 23rd annual Acadiana RV & Camping Show is coming to Cajun Field this weekend.

Amanpour hired for ABC Sunday morning job

Mar 19, 2010 4:00 am

NEW YORK ? ABC News has hired Christiane Amanpour, one of CNN's best-known personalities for her hard-nosed reporting from war zones over the past two decades, to host its Sunday morning political tal...

Bank auditors rewarded with big bonuses

Mar 19, 2010 4:00 am

WASHINGTON ? As banks gambled on the risky mortgages that helped create the worst financial crisis in generations, the U.S. government handed out millions of dollars in bonuses to regulators at agenci...

Economic recovery going two directions

Mar 19, 2010 4:00 am

WASHINGTON ? For the super-rich and everyone else, the economic recovery is taking place in two very different gears.

President signs jobs bill

Mar 19, 2010 4:00 am

WASHINGTON ? President Barack Obama has said he wants to focus laser-like on the public's top concern: jobs. But the ongoing effort to remake the nation's health-care system keeps getting in the way.

Millions of high chairs recalled

Mar 19, 2010 4:00 am

WASHINGTON ? The government is announcing a recall of 1.2 million high chairs it says pose a fall hazard to children.