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Michael Peterson has made his mark in the music industry -- several Grammy and Country Music Association nominations including a No.

Among the largest cities in the U.S., El Paso has had the biggest decrease in poverty rate, according to WalletHub's just-released analysis of the largest 150 U.S. cities recovering from the Great Recession of 2008.

Three Democrats are battling in the August 26 primary for the chance to face Republican incumbent U.S. Rep. Dan Webster this fall, and another Democrat is taking on Democratic incumbent U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson in the primary.

In what amounted to a 9-2 decision , the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit concluded that the government has the power to require labels for reasons that go beyond an effort to combat commercial deception.

A contractor that defrauded the government was sentenced on Tuesday to 9 years in prison.

A $20 million hole in the accounts of the central North Island iwi has raised questions about the way settlement money was used, including whether payments followed proper process and were adequately justifed.

"Sharknado 2: The Second One" is poised to take a bite out of Manhattan and devour many of the week's water-cooler conversations.

I confess, I vote in every election and have a real problem understanding why so many citizens choose not to.

Great Bend Fire/EMS Firefighters made three ambulance runs last Thursday, six Friday, 10 Saturday and four Sunday.

Is the Government interested in UK citizens who have been fighting in Israeli uniform in Gaza in the past couple of weeks? Now I think it's a good idea that the lads in blue are keeping their eyes open at Heathrow for British citizens who've been fighting in the Middle East.

Margaret Aden, 72, and her husband, James Aden, 78, were southbound in a Chevrolet Tracker on FM 1658, also known as Lake Road, about 12:30 p.m. As they traveled through the intersection with U.S. 380, they were hit by a Toyota Tacoma pickup driven by Zachary Sloan, 33, of Breckenridge.

The Old Globe today announced additional performances for the second production of the 2014 Summer Season, Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine 's Tony Award-winning musical Into the Woods, which made its World Premiere at The Old Globe in 1986.

The Rev. Tony Larsen and his partner, Craig Matheus, are refused a marriage license by Racine County Clerk Wendy Christensen, right, in the clerk's office in Racine, Wisconsin, on Friday, June 13. The county does not grant marriage licenses to same-sex couples despite a judge's ruling that the state ban on gay marriage is unconstitutional.

A libertarian running for governor in Florida is looking to capitalize on the vestiges of Ron Paul 's two presidential bids -- and that tactic might actually be working.

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, one of the Republican Party's most vocal advocates of federal action on immigration policy, recently re-entered the immigration debate with Bush, a potential 2016 candidate, co-authored the op-ed with Clint Bolick, the vice president for litigation at the libertarian Goldwater Institute But what about the number of ... (more)

Not even the threat of thunderstorms, torrential downpours, and Friday afternoon bumper-to-bumper traffic on I-95 could get in the way of Newport Folk Festival ringing in its 55th year -- or soul icon Mavis Staples her 75th.

Dublin - Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Global Ceiling Tiles Market - Forecast to 2019" report to their offering.

The reaction of many to the UN Human Rights Council's decision last week to order a new investigation as being a harbinger of "Goldstone 2" is understandable.

When historians look back on 2014, they will note not just how flagrantly Vladimir Putin disregarded international law or how stubbornly Gaza and Israel kept firing missiles at each other.

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