AP Headlines Collection

Unemployment rate hits 8.3 pct. after hiring burst

Fred Jackson — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:00:00 GMT

Unemployment rate hits 8.3 pct. after hiring burst Christopher S. Rugaber Associated Press WASHINGTON In the most impressive surge for the job market since early last year, the United States added 243,000 jobs in January, far more than economists

Official: 2nd teacher pulled from S. Calif. school

Fred Jackson — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:00:00 GMT

Official 2nd teacher pulled from S. Calif. school Greg Risling Associated Press LOS ANGELES A second teacher has been removed from a classroom at Miramonte Elementary School, where a teacher this week was charged with photographing children for sexual

Stores busy as Colo. prepares for major snowstorm

Rusty Pugh — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:00:00 GMT

Stores busy as Colo. prepares for major snowstorm DAN ELLIOTT Associated Press DENVER Shoppers stocked up on food, students and state lawmakers got a snow day and airlines canceled scores of flights at the Denver airport as a slow

House ready to consider insider trading ban

Rusty Pugh — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:00:00 GMT

House ready to consider insider trading ban LARRY MARGASAK Associated Press WASHINGTON With members of Congress convinced their political survival depends on their image, the House is wasting no time in considering a Senate passed bill that would ban

Maine girl bouncing back after 6-organ transplant

Rusty Pugh — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:00:00 GMT

Maine girl bouncing back after 6 organ transplant CLARKE CANFIELD Associated Press HOLLIS, Maine A 9 year old Maine girl is home from a Boston hospital healthy, active and with high hopes _ and a new stomach, liver, spleen,