GRAHAM, Wash. Josh Powell painted himself as a tortured man, ridiculed without reason in the disappearance of his wife, steadfastly insisting he was innocent until the end. Yet the investigation and autopsy reports released late Monday show the acts of a violent man who meticulously planned the double murder suicide of himself and his two […]

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Looking for a promising career in a lousy economy? A new study suggests you’re apt to find it in apps — the services and tools built to run on smartphones, computer tablets and Facebook’s online social network. The demand for applications for everything ranging from games to quantum physics has created […]

LOS ANGELES The entire staff at a Los Angeles elementary school is being removed while authorities investigate horrific allegations of sexual abuse by two of the school’s teachers, one of whom is accused of blindfolding children, taping their mouths and photographing them in a classroom. Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent John Deasy said Monday […]

GOLDEN, Colo. ( AP) — Mitt Romney hopes his presidential campaign hasn’t ignored Rick Santorum’s aggressive attacks for too long, as caucuses in Colorado and Minnesota today could reshuffle the race for the Republican presidential nomination. Santorum largely bypassed Florida and Nevada to blanket the two caucus states with criticism of Romney and lay the […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration wants to spend just over half a billion dollars on Alzheimer’s research next year, hoping to battle back against what could become the defining disease of the aging babyboom generation. Not all the spending must wait for approval from Congress: Under the plan being announced today, the National Institutes […]