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• States suing over health care law collect funding

  November 29, 2011 12:11 PM

  WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal officials are awarding more money to help states carry out President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. The surprise? The list includes seven states suing to overturn the landmark law. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced Tuesday that 13 states will split grants totaling... more »

• Airlifts take food, water to cut-off Vt. towns

  August 30, 2011 8:42 PM

  MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - National Guard helicopters are taking food and water to Vermont towns cut off by flood-damaged roads and bridges. About a dozen towns in the southern part of the state were rendered inaccessible by vehicular traffic after heavy rainfall from the remnants of Hurricane Irene on... more »

• Irene brings worst flooding to Vermont in 100 years

  August 29, 2011 8:51 AM

  Governor Peter Shumlin says state officials had been preparing for the worst, and in some parts of the state the worst happened. It is the worst flooding in the state for a century Shumlin says officials have moved from crisis management to assessing the damage. He says he's planning... more »

• Police: 'Hiccup girl' was transient before slaying

  October 26, 2010 9:09 AM

  ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) - Police say a young Florida woman once known for unstoppable hiccups was living a transient life before she was charged this week with murder. Investigator Mike Kovacsev from the St. Petersburg police told NBC's Today show Tuesday that Jennifer Mee, 19, had been living... more »

• Teacher finds 1792 document in classroom

  June 9, 2010 3:01 PM

  A Massachusetts teacher cleaning up her classroom in preparation for a move has discovered a Colonial-era document buried in a pile of outdated textbooks and dusty scraps of papers. Michelle Eugenio, a fourth-grade teacher in Peabody, found the yellowed sheet of paper two weeks ago. Dated April 1792 and... more »

• Colorado city makes a 'Best' list

  May 26, 2010 3:54 PM

  Kiplinger's Personal Finance has named its 10 Best Cities for the Next Decade-with a focus on innovative thinking. The list includes Boulder, at #4. Kiplinger's teamed with Martin Prosperity Institute, a think tank that studies economic prosperity. "New ideas generate new businesses," says Stolarick, who this year evaluated U.S.... more »

• Snowboarder finally home four months after accident

  May 4, 2010 3:40 PM

  Snowboarder Kevin Pearce has returned home to Vermont more than four months after an accident on the halfpipe nearly took his life. The 22-year-old, who had been considered one of the top challengers to Olympic gold medalist Shawn White, banged his head on the halfpipe during practice in Park City,... more »

• Vermont towns want nuclear power plant closed

  March 3, 2010 12:08 PM

  In their annual town meeting on Tuesday, folks in this Vermont ski town voted on a town budget, debated the need for a new roof on the fire department building and adjourned at lunchtime to nosh on Tracey Coutts' famous "yummy chicken pieces" casserole and cherry pie. But at... more »

• Record snow falls in Vermont

  January 4, 2010 11:09 AM

  Snow and unseasonable cold are causing woes throughout the East and well into the South. A weekend snowstorm dumped an all-time record of more than 33 inches on Burlington, the largest city in Vermont. That broke a single-storm record of nearly 30 inches set in 1969. more »

• Neighbors threaten woman over her use of a clothesline

  November 20, 2009 4:59 PM

  Residents and town officials in Perkasie, Pennsylvania don't want to see Carin Froelich's unmentionables, but she is determined to show them. "It's your freedom, it's your right," Froelich said. Though it's not illegal, more and more people across the country are being bullied and criticized by local government... more »

• Report: Swine flu could overwhelm U.S. hospitals

  October 1, 2009 11:53 AM

  If a third of people wind up catching swine flu, 15 states could run out of hospital beds around the time the outbreak peaks, a new report warns Thursday. The nonprofit Trust for America's Health estimates the number of people hospitalized could range from a high of 168,000 in... more »

• 9 in 10 teens fall short on fruits and veggies

  September 29, 2009 4:56 PM

  Less than 10 percent of U.S. high school students are eating the combined recommended daily amount of fruits and vegetables, a finding that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention called "poor" in a report Tuesday. The report based on 2007 data found that only 13 percent of... more »

• Same-sex unions begin in Vermont

  September 1, 2009 11:39 AM

  Some couples had been waiting so long for gay marriage to become legal they held midnight ceremonies, but officials in Vermont say there hasn't been a rush of applications for licenses. A new state law went into effect today allowing same-sex marriage. That makes the Green Mountain state the fifth... more »