Published 5 hours ago
115,000 get 4-day weekend
WASHINGTON — No one answered the tax-help hot line at the IRS on Friday. And forget about getting advice on avoiding foreclosures at the 80 Housing and Urban Development field offices nationwide.

Updated 5 hours ago
Google music plan is solid
LOS ANGELES — Google’s new music service offers a lot of eye candy to go with the tunes. The song selection of about 18 million tracks is comparable to popular services such as Spotify and Rhapsody, and myriad playlists curated along different genres provide a big playground for music lovers.

Published 6 hours ago
New U.T. facility for Parkinson's
Vicki Bolinger was only 47 years old when she was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2002. A retired nurse, she underwent a series of medications and treatments in clinics scattered across Ohio before arriving the Gardner-McMaster Parkinson Center on the University of Toledo Health Science campus.

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Ex-CEO to lead P&G again
NEW YORK — Household products giant Procter & Gamble Co. is hoping its former CEO can work his magic once again.

Published 8 hours ago
Son of former aide to Bush held in killing
WASHINGTON — The son of a disgraced former White House aide used a hatchet to kill a friend inside his parents’ garage in Gaithersburg, Md., authorities said Friday.

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Hero turning down endorsements
CLEVELAND — The man who famously put aside his Big Mac to help rescue three women held captive in a Cleveland house said Friday that he’s not endorsing a group of restaurants that are offering him free burgers for life and wants his name kept out of it.

Published 13 hours ago
Scouts face more turmoil after vote
The Boy Scouts of America will get no reprieve from controversy after a contentious vote to accept openly gay boys as Scouts.

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Obama addresses graduating Navy students
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Choosing future Navy and Marine leaders as his audience, President Barack Obama issued a pointed call today for an end to sexual assaults in the military, appealing to graduating midshipmen to display honor and moral courage to contain what has become a growing epidemic.

Updated 16 hours ago
Some damage reported in Calif. quake
GREENVILLE, Calif. — A moderate earthquake centered in rural northeastern California and felt in two other states damaged some homes and ruptured a tank that supplies residential drinking water in the densely forested region, officials today.

Updated 16 hours ago
Girl dies in Mich. prom party shooting
SAGINAW, Mich. — A 17-year-old girl fatally shot at an event before a prom was a sophomore at Saginaw High School.