Litigation and Regulation

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) _ Federal regulators have rejected proposed changes by the Federal Communications Commission that would require all U.S. cell phone towers to have at least eight hours of backup power. The White House Office of Management and Budget...

Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich has appointed a deputy governor to serve as adviser for economic development, business regulation and environmental affairs. Dean Martinez had been secretary of Blagojevich's Department of Financial and Professional...

HEALTH Dr. Richard R. Rubenstein has been named director of surgical program development at Peconic Bay Medical Center. The Riverhead resident is a thoracic surgeon and a pioneer in bariatric surgery. He is a member of the medical center's board of...

The Bush administration is planning to announce a broad new "right of conscience" rule permitting medical facilities, doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other health care workers to refuse to participate in any way in morally "objectionable procedures" such...

Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski has spent at least $940,000 in legal fees over the past two years with little oversight by City Council, but that may soon change if council's president gets his wish. The city charter gives the mayor the power to hire...

Markus Naslund and Nikolai Zherdev scored in a shootout to give the New York Rangers a 4-3 victory over the Florida Panthers on Friday night. Henrik Lundqvist allowed Rostislav Olesz's goal in the tiebreaker, then stopped the final two attempts to...

RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) _ Washington state is suing the federal government to seek a faster cleanup of the Hanford nuclear reservation, after nearly 18 months of negotiations failed to produce an agreement. "In Washington state, we have been patient. In...

Sami Salo woke up just in time to save the Canucks. After missing the previous two games with the flu, Salo returned Monday night to set up the tying goal with 2:25 left in regulation and score the winner on a power play 2:33 into overtime, lifting...

Police say Stafford man abused foster child in his care. CT Biodiesel withdraws appeal of Suffield's decision. Area towns submit proposals for project funding. News of a Gulf War Syndrome report hits home with Windsor Locks and Union residents. American...

WASHINGTON — As the hour grows late, President Bush, like many Chief Executives before him, seems to hear the call of the wild. Honoring a tradition that dates back at least to Ronald Reagan's White House years, President Bush is pushing through...

President-elect Barack Obama will soon face the extraordinary task of saving capitalism from its own excesses, much as Franklin D. Roosevelt had to do 76 years ago. The new president's team must get to the root causes of the mistakes that have brought...

WASHINGTON Billionaires testifying before Congress yesterday gave guarded support for proposals that would bring greater regulation of hedge funds, the investment funds for the ultra-wealthy being blamed in part for the current global financial turmoil....