A month of harsh words between Rep. Patrick Kennedy and a strident critic, Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin, escalated today when the bishop acknowledged asking Kennedy not to receive Holy Communion because of the Democratic lawmaker's support for abortion rights. ...more

November 22, 2009

The Obama administration is delaying by a week its release of an internal CIA report on the agency's Bush-era secret detention and interrogation program. ...more

June 20, 2009

Lehman Brothers has approached other major financial institutions about a potential acquisition or investment in the battered securities company, people close to the situation said Thursday. ...more

September 12, 2008

The Iraqi government and representatives of radical Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada al-Sadr announced Saturday that they had struck a deal to halt weeks of fighting in a Baghdad slum. But disagreements over the content of the accord cast doubt on whether it would end the bloodshed. ...more

May 11, 2008

County officials on Thursday approved plans to extend State Road 56 east across Wiregrass Ranch from Bruce B. Downs Boulevard. ...more

February 15, 2008

Two Turkish airstrikes this month destroyed more than 200 Kurdish rebel targets in the mountains of northern Iraq, killing hundreds of insurgents, the military said Tuesday. ...more

December 26, 2007

Florida State's succession plan is firmly in place, and better yet for the parties involved, the agreement is in writing. But based on the contract FSU offensive coordinator Jimbo Fisher signed to replace Bobby Bowden someday, it's not exactly written in stone. ...more

December 17, 2007

Tuesday was Independence Day for the High Point Volunteer Fire Department. ...more

December 5, 2007

A tearful President Pervez Musharraf ended a four-decade military career Wednesday, giving up his army commander's ceremonial baton on the eve of taking an oath as the purely civilian president of Pakistan. ...more

November 29, 2007