Officials want the decisions made by then so parents have time weigh their school lottery choices with an accurate list ... could be reopened as an elementary school in 2011 to relieve crowding at Alpine and Avalon elementary schools.

In recent days, there have been four major events with the potential to dominate news coverage for many, many days: the off-year elections, the Fort Hood shootings, the House passage of Obama-PelosiCare and the rise of unemployment to 10.2 percent ...

The committee approved a resolution to its existing grant extension policy that extensions can be made ... The CCCDA is a nine-member board that distributes money generated from Wild Rose Casino and Resort throughout Clinton County. The board has ...

On Nov. 15, 1959, Kansas farmer Herbert Clutter, his wife, Bonnie, and the couple's two youngest children, Nancy, 16, and Kenyon, 15, were found murdered in their home in Holcomb. (Two ex-convicts, Richard Hickock and Perry Smith, were later ...

Photo contributed/SCOTT SPRESNEY Mel Spresney, of Davisburg, shot this eight-point buck, estimated to be a little over 200 pounds, on private land in Clinton County, just north of Lansing, on opening day of firearms deer season. Judging from the ...

Ford, Subaru and Volkswagen sit atop the insurance industry's annual list of the safest new vehicles, according to a closely watched assessment used by car companies to lure safety-conscious consumers to showrooms. The... NY police car in accident ...

A senior Afghan official allegedly took a $20 million bribe to steer a copper mining project to a Chinese company, a glaring example of the claims of corruption clouding the Obama administration's deliberations over... Obama, Holder predict ...

--- Iowa Lottery moves toward Mega Millions deal, national lotto The Iowa Lottery Board Monday approved plans for the sale of Mega Millions tickets in Iowa beginning Jan. 31. The vote follows an agreement in principle calling for all U.S. lotteries ...

In 1789, North Carolina became the 12th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. In 1922, Rebecca L. Felton of Georgia was sworn in as the first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate . In 1927, picketing strikers at the Columbine Mine in northern Colorado ...

Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark. On the very same day that Blanche Lambert Lincoln will finally vote on whether to allow healthcare reform to reach the Senate floor, thousands of the dithering Arkansas Democrat's uninsured constituents will be lining up ...