By MICHAEL COLLINS, Scripps Howard News Service
Remembering Three Mile Island 30 years later
Even now, 30 years later, when Harold Denton looks back on his time at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant, what he remembers is how odd it all seemed.
Hard-edged Calif. lawmaker a friend to animals
California GOP Rep. Elton Gallegly was a kid when he got his first dog, a white mixed breed with a black spot on his eye.
The family called him Petey because he resembled the mutt in "The Little Rascals."
Murdered gay Calif. teen remembered in Congress
A year after his death, a gay teen-ager who was gunned down by a fellow classmate in California was remembered Thursday in Congress for his "full but tragically short life."
EPA nominee promises look at regulating toxic coal ash
President-elect Barack Obama's choice to lead the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency promised Wednesday to look at ways to regulate toxic ash from coal-fired power plants, while an influential congressman filed legislation that would require federal design and engineering standards for coal-ash ponds.
Key senator presses Bush to demand bailout concessions
A senator who played a pivotal role in the failed efforts to produce a financial bailout for the nation's ailing automakers urged the White House on Friday to demand concessions from the companies if it gives them billions of dollars in emergency relief.
Once obscure, Hank Paulson now nearly a household name
WASHINGTON -- Before the stock market tanked, before prominent banks collapsed, before home foreclosures and shrinking 401(k) plans became a national obsession, most Americans would have been hard-pressed to name the man responsible for leading the country out of its latest financial crisis.But these days, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is practically a household name.
Will Obama approve emissions waiver for California?
WASHINGTON -- After months of battling with the Bush administration, California may be close to getting permission from the federal government to set its own standards for tailpipe emissions from cars and trucks.
Record numbers voting early this year
WASHINGTON -- It's a watershed event in what some are calling a watershed election.Across the country, Americans are turning out in record numbers to cast their votes early, with some standing for hours in enormous lines the likes of which are usually seen on Election Day.
On immigrtion, Obama and McCain differ mostly in nuanceation
WASHINGTON -- They may disagree over the war in Iraq or the fundamentals of the economy or any number of other pressing issues.
