UPS Pays $40M to End Online Pharmacies Probe
Posted: 6:41 PM Shipping company UPS has agreed to pay $40 million to end a federal criminal probe connected to its work for online pharmacies.
Posted: 6:41 PM Shipping company UPS has agreed to pay $40 million to end a federal criminal probe connected to its work for online pharmacies.
Posted: 6:33 PM The state dental board in Oklahoma says it doesn't do routine inspections of dental and oral surgeon clinics -- because it's too busy chasing complaints, including those involving misused drugs and possible sexual misconduct.
Posted: 6:26 PM Business and labor groups are close to resolving details of a new low-skilled labor program that had stalled negotiations on a sweeping immigration bill in the Senate.
Posted: 8:51 AM A former member of the Blue Angels has become the new commanding officer of the Pensacola Naval Air Station.
Updated: 8:58 AM A campaign promising free shotguns for people to protect themselves in Tucson's most troubled neighborhoods has divided some residents in a community still reeling from the deadly shooting rampage that killed six people in 2011.
Posted: 7:52 AM It's a good bet that in the not-so-distant future aerial drones will be part of Americans' everyday lives, performing countless useful functions.
Updated: 7:16 AM Forecaster William Gray says he expects a very active hurricane season, but he's not yet giving likely numbers of named storms, hurricanes and major hurricanes.
Posted: 1:33 AM Newly released search warrants in the Newtown school shooting have revealed that gunman Adam Lanza's home was packed with weapons and ammunition, but the documents do not shed any new light on what could have driven him to slaughter 20 children and six educators inside an elementary school.
Posted: 1:22 AM American opinion on gay marriage has been shifting. Now Washington is tripping over itself trying to catch up.
Posted: 9:43 PM Lawyers for Colorado theater shooting suspect James Holmes have offered to have him plead guilty and serve the rest of his life in prison to avoid the death penalty.
Posted: 5:49 PM The Pentagon will sharply cut the number of unpaid furlough days civilians will be forced to take over the next several months from 22 to 14, defense officials said Wednesday, reducing the impact of automatic budget cuts on as many as 700,000 workers.
Updated: 12:00 PM Authorities investigating the shooting rampage that killed six people and wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 11 others compiled nearly 3,000 pages of documents that provide a fresh glimpse into the 2011 attack.
Posted: 11:53 AM Supreme Court justices are wrapping up a second day of arguments on gay marriage -- focusing today on a provision of the federal Defense of Marriage act that was struck down by lower courts.
Updated: 9:50 AM The Supreme Court says the federal government can be sued for abuse claims against prison guards.
Posted: 9:37 AM A 22-year-old man was critically hurt in Southern California when he fell off the trunk of a car while attempting to fly a kite from the moving vehicle.
Updated: 8:48 AM BP's cement contractor on the drilling rig that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 says its recent discovery of missing cement samples was the result of a "simple misunderstanding," not an attempt to withhold crucial evidence.
Posted: 7:01 AM The Navy has reassigned the executive officer of a Hawaii-based patrol squadron while it investigates allegations of misconduct.
Updated: 8:49 AM Squarely confronting the issue of same-sex marriage for the first time, a majority of Supreme Court justices -- on both sides of the ideological divide -- seemed inclined to hold off on a landmark decision, with several indicating they believed they jumped into the issue too soon.
Posted: 11:15 PM President Barack Obama has signed a stopgap spending bill to keep the government running through the end of September.
Posted: 10:45 PM Investigators found bomb-making materials and bloody clothes in the car of a man suspected of killing the Colorado prisons chief.
Updated: 12:37 PM Italy's highest criminal court has overturned the acquittal of Amanda Knox in the slaying of her British roommate and ordered a new trial.
Posted: 8:26 PM Rep. Michele Bachmann and her short-lived campaign last year for the GOP presidential nomination are being investigated by the Office of Congressional Ethics.
Posted: 8:10 PM The wife of a Colorado prisons official gunned down at his front door last week told mourners that her life has changed forever.
Posted: 4:37 PM Being the leader of the free world is an expensive proposition. But the costs don't stop once you leave the White House.
