
NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) - With security stepped up and families still on edge in Newtown, students began returning to school Tuesday for the first time since last week's massacre, bringing a return of familiar routines - at least, for some - to a grief-stricken town as it buries 20
...WASHINGTON (AP) - House Speaker John Boehner says he remains hopeful that a fiscal cliff compromise can be reached but says President Barack Obama has yet to offer a balanced deficit-cutting plan.
Boehner told reporters Tuesday that Obama's latest offer is for $1.3 trillion in tax increases over the next decade but just $850 billion in spending
...NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) - At the very start of their lives, the schoolchildren are remembered for their love of horses, or for the games they couldn't get enough of, or for always saying grace at dinner. The adult victims found their life's work in sheltering little ones, teaching them, caring for them, treating them as their
...WASHINGTON (AP) - Just two weeks before the economy-threatening "fiscal cliff" is due to kick in, House Speaker John Boehner opened up a second legislative track to stop tax hikes from kicking in on Jan. 1 for people making up to $1 million a year.
Boehner aides said the call for a
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has charged a Covington man in the fatal shooting of a Ripley store clerk.
Agents charged 35-year-old Kevin Grandberry with one count of first degree murder and one count of especially aggravated robbery.
Grandberry was booked into the Lauderdale County Jail on
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