DENVER (AP) — A powerful winter storm swept across Colorado today, forcing the state Department of Transportation to close portions of Interstate 70 and Interstate 25. The National Weather Service said snow was falling at 2 inches an hour on the Eastern Plains. Transportation spokeswoman Becky Navarro said today eastbound I-70 was closed from Aurora […]

LONDON (AP) — Hackers claim to have intercepted and leaked a sensitive conference call between cybercrime investigators at the FBI and Scotland Yard. Anonymous has released a roughly 15- minute- long recording of what appears to be a Jan. 17 conference call devoted to tracking and prosecuting members of the looseknit hacking group. The recording’s […]

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia and Ukraine both took precautions today to protect homeless people, scores of whom have frozen to death on the streets of Europe during its brutal cold snap. As the death toll from the weeklong tragedy rose to at least 169 today, Russian Emergencies Minister Sergei Shoigu ordered the creation of […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ben Bernanke defended the Federal Reserve’s decision to hold interest rates at record-low levels for the next three years, during a contentious hearing before federal lawmakers. The Fed chairman told the House Budget Committee on Thursday that the central bank’s plan is an appropriate step to combat high unemployment while inflation is […]

NEW YORK ( AP) — A Transportation Security Administration agent stole $5,000 in cash from a passenger’s jacket as he was going through security at John F. Kennedy International Airport, authorities said Thursday, the latest in a string of thefts that has embarrassed the agency. Alexandra Schmid took the cash from a Bangladeshi passenger’s jacket […]

LONDON (AP) — Malaria may be killing around twice as many people as experts previously thought, and it could also be hitting older children and adults — long considered the least susceptible — a new study suggests. Malaria cases and deaths have been dropping since 2004, due largely to big campaigns to distribute bednets, spray […]

YREKA, Calif. ( AP) — Investigators in a California town sought leads Thursday in the theft of large chunks of gold from the county courthouse’s $3 million historical collection as residents lamented the loss of an important piece of their cultural heritage. Thieves smashed a lobby display case and stole the gold from the Siskiyou […]