The Hunt For Gadhafi Intensifies In Libya

Libyan rebels stepped up the hunt for Moammar Gadhafi by offering a $2 million bounty on the former dictator’s head, and a NATO official said the alliance was playing an active role in the search. British Defense Secretary Liam Fox said Thursday that NATO was “providing intelligence and reconnaissance assets to help in the hunt” [...]

As Apple’s Steve Jobs Steps Down, Tim Cook Steps Up

The news last night that Apple Inc. co-founder and visionary Steve Jobs is giving up his post at CEO naturally leads to this question: Just who is Tim Cook, the Apple chief operating officer who has been tapped to take over as CEO? CNET News writes that Cook, 50, “already has extensive experience running the [...]

Oklahoma Works to Increase College Graduation Rates

A town hall at Oklahoma State University highlighted the good and bad of Oklahoma’s educational system, and what needs to happen in the future.

Better A You Than Me: Scientists Sicken Mosquitoes To Stop Dengue

Scientists in Australia are using a bacterium to try to stop a deadly virus in its tracks. The dengue virus causes a potentially fatal flu-like illness. The World Health Organization says the number of cases of dengue around the world is skyrocketing and the disease is endemic in more than 100 countries. It has even [...]

Puerto Rican Governor Faces Opposition To Pipeline

If you think your monthly electric bills are high, be thankful you don’t live in Puerto Rico. An island where nearly all energy sources must be imported, the U.S. territory has residential power costs that are double those on the mainland. To help bring down the cost of energy, Puerto Rico’s governor is pushing an [...]

Grizzlies Test Products To Keep Out The Average Bear

Last summer marked an all-time high for human-bear conflicts in Yellowstone. The number of grizzly bears there has tripled since they were placed on the endangered species list in the mid-1970s. But in a strange twist, many of the bears that were involved in conflicts with humans are now helping people to not lure bears [...]

Mosquito Research Feels Bite Of Budget Cuts

State laboratories around the country are testing mosquitoes to warn people about the presence of the West Nile virus, but federal and state budget cuts are threatening some of those labs. Abbott Brush collects mosquitoes for observation at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station. One mosquito trap — a bucket of smelly water — is in [...]

New U.S. Deportation Policy Spares Some

Immigrants and their lawyers are beginning to see the effects of the White House policy announced last week that downgrades some deportation cases. The Department of Homeland Security says it hasn’t officially begun to prioritize all 300,000 cases before the nation’s immigration courts, but prosecutors are definitely employing newfound discretion. Judy Flanagan got a call [...]

Apple CEO Steve Jobs Stepping Down

Steve Jobs, the mind behind the iPhone, iPad and other devices that turned Apple Inc. into one of the world’s most powerful companies, resigned as the company’s CEO on Wednesday, saying he can no longer handle the job. The move appears to be the result of an unspecified medical condition for which he took an [...]

Justice Dept. To Probe If News Corp. Hacked Sept. 11 Families

Attorney General Eric Holder and senior FBI officials on Wednesday told relatives of people who died in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that they had opened a preliminary criminal investigation into allegations the victims’ phones had been hacked by News Corp. In a 75-minute meeting at Justice Department headquarters, Holder assured the family members that [...]