Attorneys representing a man who was sentenced to death more than two decades ago in the murder of a waitress in Fayette County are trying to stop prosecutors from retrying the defendant. A federal...

MORE people live alone than at any other time in history. In prosperous American cities - Atlanta, Denver, Seattle, San Francisco and Minneapolis - 40 percent or more of all households contain a...

A Cambria County man driving on the wrong side of the road was killed overnight in a head-on collision, according to Pennsylvania State Police. Brian Polk, 34, of Salix was driving a minivan south...

Melissa Gilbert basically grew up on television. For 10 years she played Half Pint, the nickname for her character Laura Ingalls Wilder on the long-running "Little House on the Prairie"...

Fans line up outside Beaver Stadium to see their team enter the stadium before the start of their team's game against Nebraska today. One sign commented on the sex abuse reporting scandal that...

February 4, 2012 I would like to rise up today in defense of Diet Coke. All diet sodas, in fact. But Diet Coke happens to be my favorite. I like the stuff. Cracking open a can of it, or pouring...

Black Deaths in Custody Watch Group meeting. Wed Mar 28, 5.30pm, Link Up Queensland Aboriginal Corporation Centre 1/18 Scott Street, Parramatta Park. Ph 4041...

Roy Police detectives walk in front of Roy High School Jan. 26, 2012, in Roy, Utah. Congratulations to Bailey Gerhardt for her bravery for possibly saving the lives of many of our precious youth at...

America's honor and majesty lies in its character and principles, not its rifles and bombs. In that sense it is a body inviolate and indomitable. In Rudyard Kipling's great poem...

The U.S. Senate has overwhelmingly passed a bill that would prohibit members of Congress, the president and many other public officials from using the inside information they may gain on businesses,...

– Jan. 6, 2012 The value of my home is almost half of what it was a few years ago. So why are my taxes more? I guess I need to go to my rainy-day fund. Oh, I forgot, I don't have a...

Loser-Winner: Groundhog Day is a time for silliness in Punxsutawney, Pa., which is pretty much the point of the whole Punxsutawney Phil shtick each year. The losers in this case are the news services...

Do city elections matter? Are the voices of the people really heard? We are about to find out. On Jan. 3, 2012, three council members were sworn in to the Salt Lake City government, two new and one...

No one should be surprised that the Tin Man has a tin ear.


After all, Mitt Romney is the same multimillionaire who joked that he was "unemployed" while he was "earning" more in one day than...

The Duquesne City School District is in limbo, and state education officials owe its taxpayers, parents, students and employees an explanation -- and a plan. It's been more than three months...

Somalia is a basket case on a continent with more than its share of misery. Other African countries riven by problems have governments that more or less control their territories, however badly they...

Republican U.S. Sen. Scott Brown and likely Democratic nominee Elizabeth Warren don't see eye to eye on much, but they agree it would be good to discourage money used by special interests to buy...

Trouble prompted by the Arab Spring has been stirring in Syria for 10 months now. The government of President Bashar al-Assad has been under siege, pretty much across the country of 21 million, with...

In an environment where nepotism barely raises an eyebrow, the actions of Allegheny County President Judge Donna Jo McDaniel are all the more eye-popping because they go so far beyond routine,...

How America made its children crazy By Spengler Now we know that computers don't help children learn and that drugs don't help them concentrate, because the establishment mandarins who...

Bernanke merits a rant Commentary and weekly watch by Doug NolandIt has been labeled an intellectual exercise and ridiculed as "intelligentsia". I'll stick defiantly to the view ...

What we said: "The Susan G. Komen foundation has made a highly regrettable - and transparently political - decision to cut off funding for Planned Parenthood. ... Komen should reverse its...

49ers will go forward with their plan for a new stadium in Santa Clara. Barring a major setback - such as construction delays, or a legal ruling against changes from the deal Santa Clara voters...

"UCSF scientists take bitter view of sugar in food" (Feb. 2): War on sugar is not a solution to America's health problems. Sugar comes in many different forms (honey, fruit juice,...

LONDON -- Memo to Brazil: That idea of putting up a giant Jesus statue in a London park to promote the 2016 Olympic Games is not going over well. Brazil's tourist board has floated the notion...

INDIANAPOLIS -- Three decades after his Coke commercial won advertising's version of the Oscar, Joe Greene and his No. 75 Steelers jersey make a comeback in another Super Bowl spot on...

When legalized casino gambling was being pushed in Pennsylvania, one of its selling points was sizable tax relief for property owners. But in gambling you put your money down and take your chance --...

The African Union, by not being able to agree on a secretary general, has showed new cracks in continental unity. The AU was formed 10 years ago to try to cure some of the flaws in the old...

To the Editor:
"What's He Got to Hide?," by Nicholas D. Kristof (column, Jan. 29), is intended to incite opposition to the government of Ethiopia, when it would be far better to assist the...

To the Editor:
"Mexico Drug War Bloodies Areas Thought Safe" (front page, Jan. 19) provides a sensationalist vision of what is actually happening in Mexico. I disagree with the essential...

Reagan Resolve'; concisely outlines his major principles and actions so today’s policymakers can take a page from it.Let’s begin with a contrast. When...

Ronald Reagan , who would have turned 101 on Feb. 6, no doubt would have been amused by the number and ideological diversity of people claiming some part of the Reagan...

Amazon pulled out, leaving the state poorer for its greed. Even a big state like California wasn’t able to get away with this. ';The rich'; might...

Ronald Reagan to have been one of the great presidents of the 20th century - indeed, one of the greatest of all time. Even professors are coming around. Though they’re not as enthusiastic as...

Canada is a middle power. The U.S. dollar is a major currency, whereas the Canadian dollar is a decent-sized currency. The American financial markets have long had a direct impact on the global...

White House .Romneycare is the blueprint for Obamacare and shares its top-down, government-run fundamentals. At its core is the individual mandate that criminalizes anyone who refuses to purchase...

White House enjoys a good news day.';The recovery is speeding up,'; President Obama declared. However, the broader measures tell a different story. The employment-to-population ratio, the...

Keystone XL pipeline is all the proof you need to know that his modus operandi is to sidle up to environmental green-energy crackpots instead of creating thousands of American jobs and honestly...

C. David Corbin and Matthew T. Parks teach politics at the King’s College. They are the co-authors of ';Keeping Our Republic: Principles for a Political Reformation'; (Wipf &...

Washington


ONE year after the revolution that ousted President Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian military is closing down civil society organizations and trying to manipulate the...

The Arab Spring was the biggest story in the Middle East in 2011. Unfortunately, it's still difficult to report on its aftermath in many of the nations most impacted by the pan-Arabic protest...

Traveling through my beloved former hometown of Minneapolis recently, I was appalled to pick up the Star Tribune and find an Opinion Exchange section cover article about missing conservatives in...

The problem with Mitt Romney's latest boneheaded statement -- "I'm not concerned about the very poor" -- isn't the ammunition it gives political opponents eager to yank the...

I was disappointed in many aspects of Jack Schneider's Feb. 1 commentary ("No magic solution for schools"), which described Teach For America as aspiring to eliminate the achievement...

To the Editor:
Re "Do Drones Undermine Democracy?," by Peter W. Singer (Sunday Review, Jan. 22):
We must put an end to the ability of any president to instigate any act of war unilaterally....

This week we had a huge political fight about breast cancer. Clearly, we have now hit the point where there's nothing that can't be divided into red-state-blue-state.


Nothing. The other day I...

A young woman at a hearing Thursday morning in Manhattan held up a large sign that read: "We Want Real Democracy. " That is precisely what the State Legislature's official mapmakers - the Legislative...

Rose Healthy steps One of our favorite News-Review quotes this week comes from Roseburg’s Janice Baker. ';You...

Higher education institutions are predictably cool to President Obama's proposal to shift federal aid away from colleges that fail to control rising tuition. Even though the details of his plan,...

In a politically wise turnabout, the Senate did the right thing on Thursday in approving a long-needed ban on Congressional lawmakers and staffers using confidential information they pick up as...