LANSING, Mich. (AP) — In a dizzyingly short time span, Republicans have converted Michigan from a seemingly impregnable fortress of organized labor into a right-towork state, leaving outgunned Democrats and union activists with little recourse but to shake their fists and seek retribution at the ballot box. The state House swiftly approved two bills reducing […]

SISSONVILLE, W.Va. (AP) — Contractors worked through the night scraping away burned asphalt and repaving an 800-foot swath of Interstate 77 charred by a massive natural gas line explosion and fire that also flattened four homes and damaged five more but caused no deaths. The Tuesday afternoon blast between Sissonville and Pocatalico, about 15 miles […]

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A suburban Portland mall remained closed today while crime scene experts detail the shooting that left three people dead and one wounded and sent Santa and thousands of shoppers running. The shooter, dressed in camouflage and a mask, was a man in his 20s who apparently fired at random before taking […]