Want an iPhone? Hate AT&T? Used to be, the only way to remedy this common problem was to clandestinely "jailbreak" your phone, so that you could switch to a more reliable network. Tech nuts also did...

The U.S. Constitution remains intact in Arizona today. The most intrusive provisions of a state law to crack down on illegal immigration were put on hold Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Susan...

Fidel Castro goes on and on, thwarting all attempts to draw up a final summary of his reign. Over the course of Castro’s 50 years in power, Cubans’ standard of living has remained...

(AP) CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Venezuela's diplomatic fight with Colombia comes at an opportune time for Hugo Chavez, who could benefit politically if he manages to shifts voters' attention away from...

A Windber man has been convicted of stealing more than $650,000 from an elderly woman. Jurors in Cambria County deliberated for only about an hour Wednesday afternoon before convicting 55-year-old...

Once again, it's another damp day in Waynesburg -- but it doesn't seem like anyone's complaining. Precipitation officially began to fall at 7:50 a.m. on the Greene County seat, where each July 29,...

Besides coming to terms with their second-round draft pick Wednesday night, the Steelers also signed one more key member of the organization and promoted two more in their front office with other job...

A zucchini and summer squash jungle is growing in my garden. Zucchini spreads tall and reaches wide, bumping up against the cucumbers, whose tendrils attempt to entwine the thick, stalky branches....

When I was a little boy, I won a prize at a drawing, but only because it was rigged in advance. It happened at a Saturday movie matinée for children. After I handed my film ticket to the...

I was saddened by Verna Yu’s article about parents in Hong Kong who speak to their children only in broken English, instead of the local Cantonese dialect (“Cantonese, please,”...

An analysis of the United States international balance of payments in 1934, published today [July 29] by Secretary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper, shows an unprecedented inflow of gold valued at...

Students at Harlem Success Academy, an elementary charter school in New York City. A recent report by Brookings found that Harlem Children's Zone and KIPP schools are outperforming other public...

The most reactionary conservatives, many of them clutching unread copies of U.S. Constitution, are already screaming about the decision of Arizona Federal Judge Susan Bolton to block immediate...

July 29, 2010 Attorney General Eric Holder could have dictated most of Judge Susan Bolton's decision blocking key parts of the Arizona immigration law. The judge twists facts and logic to support...

This week's release of a movie version of cult TV show The A-Team, 24 years after the final episode aired, is proof that nothing is sacred in Hollywood. The crack commando unit, who wowed audiences...

ite snack.She said: "Larger people would provide a more substantial visual target for host-seeking midges as well as greater amounts of heat, moisture and attractant semiochemicals (behaviour...

Windmills on our minds.Needs all the financial help it can get, the Edinburgh Jazzfest. So we've got Carol Kidd coming to the Queen's Hall on August...

These are tough times and after a lot of justified girning by the Conservatives in Holyrood that John Swinney was not taking the issue of budget savings seriously enough, our MSPs finally agreed to...

At the end of 2009, Kenny Chesney announced that he was taking a year off. My wife and I have gone to see him every time he came to Pittsburgh since 2004. My wife isn't one to join a fan club, but...

Until July 21, when he was found dead in his home hot tub, Dr. Marc Abrams walked roughly 20 miles a day throughout the Los Angeles neighborhood of Silver Lake. Just about anyone who spent any amount...

drug abuse , according to British researchers Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett in their seminal book, "The Spirit Level." It also has a low per capita rate of carbon emissions, doing its part to...

Democrats have abandoned their effort to dramatically cut the nation's greenhouse gases and instead have rolled a few minor carbon-reduction measures into a bill that would reform regulations on oil...

The decision was preceded by intense pressure from the defense establishment and intelligence services on the state archivist, Prof. Yehoshua Freundlich. The archivist accepted their position, and...

Pitcher Ross Ohlendorf is ushered off the field by the Pirates' athletic trainer, Brad Henderson, after being struck in the head by a line drive in the first inning Wednesday at Coors...

Hampton Township council approved adoption of a resolution opposing forced local government mergers and consolidation during its regular meeting Wednesday night. The resolution is in opposition to...

Here's an unfortunate fact of modern life: People today are exposed to chemicals as never before. Here is another: Many chemicals in consumer products -- even those linked to cancer and a host of...

On Tuesday, the House of Representatives approved President Barack Obama's request for an above-budget $59 billion to continue the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The vote was 308-114 and the problem...

The news from the Point was good Tuesday for Pittsburghers who are bullish on the fabulous look of Downtown at the end of the Fort Pitt Tunnel. A spokesman for the Hilton Pittsburgh said exterior...

The war in Afghanistan will consume more money this year alone than we spent on the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, the Civil War and the Spanish-American War —...

District 26 (Royal Oak, Madison Heights): Two Republicans and four Democrats are seeking to replace term-limited Democrat Marie Donigan. On the Republican side, Ken Rosen , 44, is the clear choice....

Deval Patrick to recognize the flaws in a bill that would upend the way Massachusetts votes are counted in the quadrennial race for president. He should veto the national popular vote bill now...

The Steelers, racing the clock to keep a five-year streak of no rookie holdouts intact, will have at least one of their two top draft picks join them when they report to training camp Friday. ...

DENVER -- One by one, many of the Pirates' top prospects have fallen to injury this summer, mostly of the highly unpredictable and unpreventable variety. The latest was Class AA Altoona center...

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -- CBS's new fall sitcom "Mike & Molly" features Swissvale native Billy Gardell as one of two larger-than-we-normally-see-on-TV lead characters, but don't mistake it for a...

This is not about you. You are clearly an intelligent, discerning, talented and, if I may say so, attractive person who would never do anything profoundly stupid. You are a competent driver. Also,...

The federal judge who ruled on Arizona’s tragic, noxious new immigration law on Wednesday did not stop all of it from taking effect Thursday, but she preliminarily halted the worst of it. And...

When it comes to the iPhone, Apple has been overprotective. That is the conclusion of the United States Copyright Office, which has granted an exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that...

A federal conviction for white-collar fraud is no guarantee of a heavy prison sentence. When five defendants in the fraud case involving the American International Group were sentenced, they could...

Straightforward enough.  But in the early years of Rhode Island, Williams faced quite a relevant challenge.  One of the colonists who fled Salem with him, Joshua Verin, quickly made himself an...

The invective swirling around the proposed Israeli conversion legislation runs amok. It “spits in the face of Diaspora Jewry,” says an American non- Orthodox rabbi in The New York Times. Not to...

On issues relating to Jewish identity in Israel, Diaspora Jews are not only entitled but are obliged to be party to discussions.However, the current upheaval over the proposed Rotem conversion...

DENVER -- The Pirates' Ross Ohlendorf was struck in the right side of the head by a line drive from Colorado's Troy Tulowitzki in the first inning of tonight's game at Coors Field. Ohlendorf exited...

The federal court ruling throws a monkey wrench, at least temporarily, into the worst parts of a discriminatory law. In truth, Arizona needs to repeal the whole thing, and similar bills under...

The new legislation will end the egregiously and needlessly long crack sentences that were a hallmark of federal drug sentencing. The racial disparities in sentencing that result from the current law...

Reagan 's coattails, the Capitol switchboard was jammed from countless Americans calling to voice their support for the president's plan. The vote was 238-195 in favor - 48 Democrats crossed the...

View results In the 2008 elections, labor unions supported Democratic candidates in a big way - to the tune of $400 million, in fact. And few benefited more from union largesse...

Fred Barnes deposited a few thoughts on journalism provoked by the discovery of a mother lode of left-wing bigotry, screeds and semiliterate gibbering. He hastened to tell his readers that there was...

Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-ME, speaks with a reporter after voting yes on a cloture vote on the financial reform bill on Capitol Hill in Washington on July 15, 2010. The vote passed which allows a final...