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Michael Blake died last week. You probably don’t know the name. You probably don’t know about his life. You probably don’t know most of what he wrote....

KHADKA TOLE, Nepal (AP) — Gone, the girl says as she squints into the sun, the air around her shimmering with wind-blown wheat chaff. She points to on...

WASHINGTON — Comments about recent events in Baltimore following the death of Freddie Gray provide a glimpse at perhaps one of our greatest challenges...

Many people may not realize how significantly mental health impacts them. Our mental health assists us in effectively coping with stress in our lives....

WASHINGTON — America’s smallest state — one Nevada county is nearly eight times larger — has the longest name: In a 2010 referendum, voters kept the o...

It’s a record Terry Stanley would like to have back. In March of 2010, the principal of Otto-Eldred Elementary school, won an indoor marathon at Ohio ...

WASHINGTON — Oh, Bill. There you go again. We knew you were going to pop off, but did it have to be so soon — and so tone-deaf? The Clinton deal is “t...

WASHINGTON — Police and prisons are the successful answer to a rather narrow question: Can overwhelming force and routine incarceration bring temporar...

WASHINGTON — The life of the wife of a presidential candidate can sometimes be like the government. Taxing. You wake up and blink through that first c...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Piece by piece, President Barack Obama is trying to build the foundation for the legacy he wants to leave, putting in place decision...

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — The joke was that the Bills scouting staff should have merely made extended-stay accommodations in Tallahassee. After all, half t...

HARRISBURG (AP) — It’s the first thing each Pennsylvania state lawmaker checks in a governor’s brand-new budget proposal: How much more money the publ...

WASHINGTON — Today’s topic is toxic substances and the appalling gaps in the current law that is supposed to protect the public from dangerous chemica...

WASHINGTON — Owning a fragment of history — a Gettysburg bullet, a Coolidge campaign button — is fun, so in 1968 Gregg Bemis became an owner of the Lu...

Kathleen Kane, Pennsylvania’s embattled attorney general, is having some bad days.A year ago she was the toast of state politics, in 2012 becoming the...

WASHINGTON — The anger in Ferguson, Missouri — even the violence— was more understandable and, in that sense, less upsetting, than what we have been w...

BISHOPVILLE, S.C. — Lee Correctional Institution, South Carolina’s largest maximum-security prison, gets plenty of bad press —from a riot and a lockdo...

HARRISBURG (AP) — They may not yet be at the forefront of policy debates at the Capitol, but Pennsylvania’s municipal pension troubles are stirring mo...

WASHINGTON — In thinking about donations to the Clinton Foundation from foreign governments and interests, an adage attributed to Benjamin Franklin an...

WASHINGTON — In 1994, Lindsey Graham, then a 39-year-old South Carolina legislator, ran for Congress in a district that he said had not elected a Repu...