Erskine Bowles, left, accompanied by former Wyoming Sen. Alan Simpson, co-chairmen of Barack Obama's deficit commission. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
WASHINGTON — Job-based health care benefits could wind up on the chopping block if President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans get serious about cutting the deficit.
MEREDITH – One person's trash is again someone else's treasure at the transfer station in town.
Selectmen have agreed to modifications in town policies to allow residents to pick through discarded items at the town transfer station to find useful things to recycle or reuse.
The changes came in the wake of town policies adopted earlier this year...
'Error-free' hospitals scrutinized
State health officials question whether a lack of reports required by a 2007 law means a lack of incidents.
November 27, 2010|By Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Los Angeles Times
California public health officials are scrutinizing hospitals that claim to be error-free, questioning...
AP – A shopper inspects jewelry at a chain store in Herald Square, Sunday, Nov. 28, 2010 in New York.
PITTSBURGH – In the unlikely event that your Christmas list this year includes every item mentioned in "The Twelve Days of Christmas," be prepared to pay nearly $100,000.
Trying to buy the 364 items repeated in all the song's verses — from 12...
