A state university in Alabama is raising eyebrows with an unusual — and perhaps even first-of-its-kind — provision the school’s board of trustees included in the new university president’s contract. The Birmingham

WASHINGTON –  A D.C. schools employee has been fined $1,500 for using her dead grandmother’s handicapped-parking placard to park for free at work. The Washington Times reports that the D.C. Board of

DALLAS –  Hank Hunt’s granddaughter tried calling 911 from the East Texas hotel room where she could hear her mother dying, just as she was taught to do in an emergency. She

Let’s not mince words here: Robert Gates has just betrayed the president who appointed him and gave him the Medal of Freedom. Not because the former Defense secretary has written a book

The largest outbreak to date of one strain of what authorities have called “nightmare bacteria” is adding to concerns about the spread of such drug-resistant bugs. The outbreak, centered on a hospital