Officials are mum about where he is living and working but say the man who lived 27 years in the Maine woods is doing fine.

In his weekly radio address, the governor says the system will be based on factors including student achievement in reading and math, and the graduation rate for high schools.

It tends to happen in such downturns, and for the second year, U.S. births saw a ‘good-sized decline.’

New York police say the man was drunk during the brutal attack on a Bangladeshi taxi driver.

The federal judge’s ruling now faces an expedited appeal by the National Organization for Marriage.

BELL, Calif. – The City Council in this small, blue-collar suburb of Los Angeles was planning to ask three administrators whose salaries total more than $1.6 million to resign Thursday or face possible firing. Revelations about the pay in Bell has sparked anger in the city of fewer than 40,000. The officials include Chief Administrative […]

Peter Eglinton says he needs more time to spend with his family.

ATLANTA – A fungus usually found in the tropics has taken root in the Pacific Northwest and is blamed in the deaths of 15 people over the last six years, health officials said Thursday. At least 60 people have been sickened in four states by the fungus, cryptococcus gattii, which grows on or around trees. […]