Tag: Associated Press

A man gets his retina scanned as he enrolls in an identification program. (AP/Bikas Das)

Privacy-wary Idaho legislative panel passes biometric protections

Associated Press · February 25, 2014 5:00 am

The Oregon Legislature is looking at two bills that would curtail access to public records. Lawmakers say they're protecting people's privacy, but government transparency advocates worry about adding even more exemptions to Oregon's public records law. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Oregon lawmakers make public records secret

Associated Press · February 25, 2014 5:00 am

FILE - In this March 5, 2013 file photo, a home is for sale in Auburn, N.H. Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller reports on home prices in December on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

US home prices dip for second straight month

Christopher Rugaber · February 25, 2014 5:00 am

This Nov. 23, 2013 file photo shows Republican congressional candidate David Jolly talking with supporters in Indian Rocks Beach, Fla. (AP File)

Florida candidate speaks about crash that killed man

Washington Examiner · February 25, 2014 5:00 am

The small well water treatment plant that services the neighbors of the Flemington Road community located in Wilmington, N.C.. The facility is located nearby the L.V. Sutton Complex operated by Duke Energy just outside of Wilmington. Members of the community feel the plant could be polluting well water with spill off and seepage from large coal ash ponds nearby the treatment plant. (AP Photo/Randall Hill)

Energy and Environment

Drone used to estimate size of North Carolina coal ash spill

Associated Press · February 25, 2014 5:00 am

Seattle interim Police Chief Harry Bailey looks on at a news conference on police reform Feb. 4 in Seattle. Three days after holding a news conference to defend Seattle's police chief for erasing a misconduct finding against an officer, Mayor Ed Murray partially reversed course Monday, reinstating the original finding and saying the decision to lift it did not look like the kind of police reform his administration has promised. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Seattle mayor backtracks on officer’s discipline

Washington Examiner · February 25, 2014 5:00 am

Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is escorted to a helicopter in handcuffs by Mexican navy marines at a navy hanger in Mexico City, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2014. A senior U.S. law enforcement official said Saturday, that Guzman, the head of Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel, was captured alive overnight in the beach resort town of Mazatlan. Guzman faces multiple federal drug trafficking indictments in the U.S. and is on the Drug Enforcement Administration's most-wanted list. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Drug lord ‘El Chapo’ Guzman unlikely to face U.S. charges soon

Associated Press · February 25, 2014 5:00 am

Two New Jersey police officers have been charged with conspiracy, misconduct and records tampering after video from a second dashboard camera surfaced in their 2012 arrest of a man they claimed resisted arrest. (Photo: Thinkstock)

2 New Jersey officers charged as dashcam clears suspect

Associated Press · February 25, 2014 5:00 am

LinkedIn is launching a Chinese-language site for the world's most populous Internet market and says it will comply with the communist government's censorship rules. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

LinkedIn to launch site in Chinese

Joe McDonald · February 25, 2014 5:00 am

An election-year plan by House Republicans to simplify the tax code would cut income tax rates but impose a new surtax on some high-income families. (Thinkstock Image)

GOP tax plan lowers rates, imposes surtax on rich

Stephen Ohlemacher · February 25, 2014 5:00 am

Debbie Dingell to seek Michigan House seat

Associated Press · February 25, 2014 5:00 am

In Kentucky, the tea party-backed challenger to Sen. Mitch McConnell is trying to explain old investor letters that recently surfaced, undermining his criticisms of government bailouts of banks. (AP Photo/Stephen Lance Dennee, File)

Senators hit rivals hard and fast in GOP primaries

Charles Babington · February 25, 2014 5:00 am