MEMPHIS, Tenn. — When Roy James needed money to buy equipment and dig an irrigation well for his father’s Mississippi farm, he applied for a loan from the U.S. Department of Agriculture — but was turned down.
Forty-three years after serving together in the Vietnam War, Larry Crile reconnected with a man he fought beside in the U.S. Army Green Berets.
Gordon Williams, 77, of Delaware passed away Tuesday (March 20, 2012) at his residence.
TRENTON, N.J. — Members of Congress investigating shortages of crucial drugs are targeting fake pharmacies allegedly set up solely to buy and resell the drugs at huge markups.
Robert Bruce Weiser, 84, of Parkersburg, W. Va., died Feb. 26, 2012 at the St. Joseph’s Campus of CCMC.
With just under a week until Delaware County voters cast their ballots to decide two county commissioner races, two candidates have opened commanding leads in at least one important metric.
WASHINGTON — Democrats are playing defense in governors’ races in 2012, protecting eight seats — some in conservative states like North Carolina and Montana — while Republicans are safeguarding just four. But one of those is in Wisconsin, where a recall effort against incumbent Scott Walker has emerged as a national test of the confrontational measures many GOP governors have taken to balance state budgets.
WASHINGTON — House-Senate talks on renewing a payroll tax cut that delivers about $20 a week to the average worker yielded a tentative agreement Tuesday, with lawmakers planning to unveil the pact Wednesday and sending the measure to President Barack Obama as early as this week.