Kennett Square Man, 20, Killed In Two-car Crash

When the president needed a new head speechwriter, he turned to Cody Keenan, a 32-year-old fellow Chicagoan.

One of the stolen dogs was ranked sixth nationally on the show circuit, but Fernando Juarez says the real loss is that the four-legged friends are family members.

Don't mess with Grandma, the rule goes. Oregon lawmakers know the political risk of irritating seniors by changing programs designed to help retirees. Yet Oregon has a senior tax break that is so oddly designed, so unsustainable and so unhelpful to lower-income retirees that even the AARP favors reform.

Amid a series of recent positive economic reports, the GOP is revving up its portrayal of the Obama administration as scandal-ridden and inept, while largely abandoning the party's where-is-the-recovery criticism.

By creating "stateless" entities that haven't filed tax returns in five years, Apple has dodged taxes on $44 billion of income since 2009.