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MCDONOUGH, Ga. — In a sun-dappled square decorated with scores of entrants in the community’s Halloween scarecrow contest, a balky sound system enable...

WASHINGTON — The millionaire’s club isn’t what it used to be. Time was that “being a millionaire” was a mark of unimaginable success. You’d joined the...

WASHINGTON — It’s a good thing for Dominic Adesanya that U.S. marshals don’t bite. If they did, he would have a new set of puncture wounds to match th...

WASHINGTON — David Perdue took the cheap and easy route. The Republican Senate candidate in Georgia, like Republican candidates in most other competit...

SAN DIEGO — Recently, after I took a jab at right-wingers with closed minds who want closed borders, a reader asked: “Are you for open borders and the...

WASHINGTON — In an older, gentrifying, suburban Virginia neighborhood — the kind with porch flags and pumpkins on the front steps — I am welcomed at a...

So here we are at the season’s midpoint and the Bills are 5-3. How many Buffalo fans, if given the option before the season began, would have happily ...

WASHINGTON — The early morning paramilitary-style raids on citizens’ homes were conducted by law enforcement officers, sometimes wearing bulletproof v...

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — NFL coaches will tell you they treasure every victory because they’re so hard to get ... no matter who the opposition might be...

HARRISBURG (AP) — Three months ago, Gov. Tom Corbett pushed the state's $50 billion-plus public pension debt to center stage in his re-election campai...

Think things can’t get any worse with the approval rating of Congress polling as low as a 7 percent while national problems pile up and an increasingl...

America has decided: Sex is for rich people. Non-procreative sex in particular. How else would you explain the trap we’re laying for poor people who d...

Hey boys and girls it’s time once again for the 13th Annual Mid-season College Football Party to be held at the 14 Oaks Mansion today. You’ll recall l...

WASHINGTON — It is such a relief about that Ebola thing. The threat of an American outbreak turned out to be overhyped. A military operation is underw...

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. — Last week, the national Democratic Party left Alison Lundergan Grimes for dead. So why does she still have a pulse? The Democrati...

I say it every year, but the season just seems to go by so fast. 2014 has been no different, as Week 9 marks the last regular season play date for som...

He has been a mascot, he has swept out stadiums, he has poured drinks, and he has sold tickets. There’s not much Brian Lyter hasn’t done when it comes...

Rex Ryan’s problem is that he’s a talker. The Jets’ sixth-year coach has always been a media favorite ... even now as much of the New York press has b...

WASHINGTON — If politicians preying upon your attentions this season fail to inspire, you might seek common cause with the beasts — the four-legged va...

WASHINGTON — Monica Lewinsky is trying to make lemonade out of 16-year-old lemons. Good for her, and good, ultimately, for us. Not so good, of course,...