| | FCC plans to go through with DTV test in NC
Sep 5 2008 7:23PM CT
WASHINGTON (AP) - The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission said Friday that he is unlikely to delay plans for an important test in North Carolina that could disrupt television service for some viewers in the path of Tropical Storm Hanna. | | |
Bush aide's House testimony temporarily halted
Sep 5 2008 2:31PM CT
WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal appeals court has blocked former White House counsel Harriet Miers from testifying about the firing of nine U.S. attorneys until judges decide whether they have authority to wade into a battle that pits Congress against the Bush administration. | | |
 'Broken man' Abramoff gets 4 years in prison
Sep 5 2008 6:34AM CT
WASHINGTON (AP) - Broken and disgraced, lobbyist Jack Abramoff will spend four years in prison for his role in a corruption scandal that upended Washington politics and contributed to the Republicans' loss of Congress in 2006. | | |
 Duck Stamp error sends callers to sex line
Sep 4 2008 4:35PM CT
WASHINGTON (AP) - People calling a federal phone number to order duck stamps are instead greeted by a phone-sex line, due to a printing error the government says would be too expensive to correct. | | |
EPA limits lawnmower emissions to stem pollution
Sep 4 2008 2:20PM CT
WASHINGTON (AP) - Gasoline-powered lawnmowers that are a big cause of summertime air pollution will have to be dramatically cleaner under rules issued Thursday by the Environmental Protection Agency. | | |
Justice asked to weigh charges in Utah mine deaths
Sep 3 2008 6:11PM CT
WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal mining officials have asked prosecutors to decide whether criminal charges are warranted in the death of nine people in last year's collapse of the Crandall Canyon mine in Utah. | | |
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