Health Apr 16 Roommate wanted: Must be clean, courteous and over 65 Bonnie Moore was worried about losing her five-bedroom home in Bowie, Maryland, when she and her husband divorced at the height of the recession. So the 69-year-old decided to make lemonade out of her sour situation and began advertising for…
Nation Apr 09 Missouri moves to end lifetime ban on food stamps for drug felons Nine states ban food stamp benefits for people convicted of felony drug offenses, but one of those, Missouri, is looking to modify its law.
Nation Apr 07 UPDATE: Death toll rises to 33 in Washington mudslide A total of 24 bodies have been recovered from the Washington mudslide, Washington officials reported Monday.
Science Apr 07 NASA explores the fashionable frontier Online voters can select one of three designs that will be used as a cover to protect the spacesuit from abrasions while astronauts train in multiple vacuum chamber tests and at a rocky Martian surface analog site at the…
World Apr 04 AP photographer killed, reporter wounded in Afghanistan An Associated Press photographer was shot and killed Friday and an AP reporter was wounded when an Afghan policeman opened fire while they were sitting in their car in eastern Afghanistan, the AP reports. The two were on assignment covering…
Nation Mar 28 Served with high lime prices, Mexican restaurants make lemonade On a sour note, Mexican restaurants in the U.S. are confronting a surge in lime prices that have forced some to make do without the essential ingredient on their menus.
Nation Mar 26 Northwestern football players allowed to unionize, NLRB rules In a decision that may have a huge impact on college athletics, the National Labor Relations Board ruled on Wednesday that Northwestern football players qualify as employees and can unionize.
Nation Mar 19 Michigan plan promises to cover college tuition, but students must ‘pay it forward’ Legislators in Michigan have proposed a creative solution for financing college tuition -- make it free. That’s the first step. Second step: require the student to “pay it forward.”…
Health Mar 17 Study finds dramatic increase in painkiller prescriptions for ER patients Researchers at George Washington University have found a significant increase in prescriptions for opioidsopioid analgesics, such as Percocet, Vicodin, oxycodone and Dilaudid, despite only a modest increase in visits for painful conditions.
Health Mar 14 Turns out Google’s not so hot at predicting flu cases It seems that Google Flu Trends, which launched to much hype in 2008, has been off the mark.