WASHINGTON — The lure of roads, bridges, buses and trains isn’t enough anymore to drive an expensive transportation bill through Congress. So to round up votes, congressional leaders are pitching the bills as the hottest thing around these days: job generators. But do they really create more jobs? The answer from a lot of economists is […]

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City woman who had her hands and legs amputated has won a $17.9 million settlement from the city and a hospital. The Daily News reports that Tabitha Mullings will receive $ 9.4 million from Brooklyn Hospital Center and $8.5 million from the city. The hospital and city say […]

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An Iranian semiofficial news agency reports that the country’s Supreme Court has ordered the retrial of an ex- Marine who was sentenced to death for working for the CIA. Today’s report by ISNA quotes state prosecutor Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejehei as saying the Supreme Court has found shortcomings in the case and […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Republican presidential candidate John McCain says it’s “totally unacceptable” for Rush Limbaugh to call a law student a “slut” in the political furor over requiring that women get birth control coverage free of charge. Speaking today on the CBS program ‘This Morning,’ the Arizona senator said Limbaugh’s statements were unacceptable “in […]

BOSTON ( AP) — Eight more men have come forward to say they were abused by a now-dead former Boston Red Sox clubhouse manager. The men, including two former Baltimore Orioles bat boys, are in addition to two former Red Sox clubhouse attendants who said in December to say they were abused by Donald Fitzpatrick, […]