Saying the health of the planet is at stake, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged 190 nations meeting in Mexico on Tuesday to agree to steps to fight climate change that fall short of a perfect deal. “We cannot let the …
The European Union formally backed Russia’s bid to join the World Trade Organization on Tuesday, clearing the way for Moscow to join the body in 2011, after 17 years of trying. EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht and Russian Economic …
A California Assemblyman has proposed a bill aimed at preventing pipeline explosions like the natural gas blast that killed eight people in Northern California. A bill introduced by San Mateo Assemblyman Jerry Hill would require utilities to share their emergency …
A five-alarm blaze that broke out in Baltimore’s adult-entertainment district on Monday afternoon, spread quickly and sent thick smoke billowing throughout downtown was brought under control in the early evening, city fire officials said. Battalion Chief Kevin Cartwright, a spokesman …
An upstate New York prosecutor who charged a Florida pharmacy in 2007 with selling anabolic steroids to pro athletes and entertainers is being sued for $75 million by the pharmacists, who claim defamation and false arrest with their indictments now …
Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson sued Discover on Dec. 6, accusing one of the nation’s biggest credit card companies of billing tens of thousands of Minnesota customers for account protection programs they didn’t want. The lawsuit alleges that Discover Bank, …
A fire that destroyed a controversial Civil War-themed chapel in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania was set intentionally, police said. There are no official suspects, but investigators are seeking three teens reported to be in the area at the time of Friday’s pre-dawn …
The flight school at New Hampshire’s Lebanon Municipal Airport has disbanded. Greg Soho of Signal Aviation, which ran the school, says the decision to drop the program had nothing to do with demand for flight lessons. He says the school …
Suspected Somali pirates hijacked a Bangladeshi ship carrying nickel ore in the Arabian Sea and appear headed to the lawless East African nation, officials said Monday. The Bangladesh-flagged M.V. Jahan Moni appears to have been hijacked Sunday off the Indian …
Main Line roofers say they are taking it on the chin from Amish competitors, who are getting a significant amount of work in Philadelphia’s wealthy western suburbs. Keith McLean, a Paoli roofing contractor, said he lost a job this month …
