Obama touts federal help for small businesses The State | WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's bid to sell his economic agenda and re-energize voters picks up in politically significant New Hampshire, where he will again promote an idea to free up more cash for hurting smaller businesses. | Obama travels to Nashua on Tuesday to draw attention to a prop...
Obama to seek major increase in nuclear weapons funding The State | WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration plans to ask Congress to increase spending on the U.S. nuclear arsenal by more than $5 billion over the next five years as part of its strategy to halt the spread of nuclear weapons and eventually rid the world of them. | The administration argues that the bo...
Hawaii considers raising minimum wage Business Journal Send this story to a friend | Email address of friend (insert comma between multiple addresses): Your email address: Add a brief note: | Enter words from the security image above: | Get new image | Audio verification | reCAPTCHA™ OSHA fines Mue...
SC man stabbed to death with butcher knife at home The State | WEST COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Investigators are trying to figure out who killed a South Carolina man with a butcher knife in his home. | Lexington County Sheriff James Metts says 41-year-old William Adams was found dead in a pool of blood on the porch of ...
Boeing's 747-8 freighter makes first flight The State | EVERETT, Wash. -- Boeing Co.'s giant 747-8 freighter - the biggest plane the company has ever built - took off on its first flight Monday, a year later than originally planned. | The huge plane took off from Everett's Paine Field after a weather de...
Private detective searches for missing teen in SC The State | CHARLESTON, S.C. -- The head of a company that helps parents find missing children has hired a detective agency to search for a New York state teenager missing in South Carolina for almost a year. | Seventeen-year-old Brittanee Drexel of Rochester,...
Oxycontin stolen from Cola. Walgreens at gunpoint The State | A gun-wielding robber held up a Columbia Walgreens drug store early Monday morning and made off with the highly addictive prescription painkiller OxyContin. | A lone man approached the pharmacy counter in the rear of the Walgreens store at 4467 Dev...
Rep. John Murtha, Iraq war critic, dies at 77 The State | HARRISBURG, Pa. -- Rep. John Murtha, the tall, gruff-mannered former Marine who became the de facto voice of veterans on Capitol Hill and later an outspoken and influential critic of the Iraq War, died Monday. He was 77. The Pennsylvania Democrat h...
US to commit $78.5M to try to halt Asian carp The State | WASHINGTON -- Navigational locks and gates in Chicago-area waterways may be opened less frequently than usual in a stepped-up campaign to prevent Asian carp from overrunning the Great Lakes, federal officials said Monday. | The plan falls short of ...
AT&T, employees hammer out tentative contract The Business Review Send this story to a friend | Email address of friend (insert comma between multiple addresses): Your email address: Add a brief note: | Enter words from the security image above: | | | reCAPTCHA™ | said Monday it reached a tentative agreement ...
Obama to seek major increase in nuclear weapons funding The State | WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration plans to ask Congress to increase spending on the U.S. nuclear arsenal by more than $5 billion over the next five years as part of its strategy to halt the spread of nuclear weapons and eventually rid the world of them. | The administration argues that the boost is needed to ensure that U.S. warheads remain ...
