A few years ago, the Nebraska Department of Roads built a bypass on U.S. Highway 275 that meant motorists no longer had to drive through Hooper.
Even in states like Nebraska, rural representation is sure to decline as state capitals redraw legislative districts.
A man who was apparently upset over a contentious divorce killed his ex wife, his ex-wife’s lawyer and two others in the border city of Yuma, before turning his gun on himself.
Runoff from the Mississippi River that has agricultural chemicals in it threatens to create the largest dead zone ever in the Gulf of Mexico.
At least people were killed and hundreds of homes were destroyed or damaged.
Federal prosecutors finally got the chance to question Rod R. Blagojevich, the ousted former governor of Illinois, in a combative cross-examination in Chicago.
Phillip and Nancy Garrido were sentenced to prison for kidnapping Jaycee Lee Dugard in 1991 and holding her captive for nearly two decades.
Michelle Obama and administration officials introduced a simpler guideline to promote healthy nutrition.
It’s a mystery: How did a 37-foot sailboat come to be washed up on the shore of a Malibu cove? And why is it still there, five months later?
In Florida, the summer’s first big beach weekend could be summed up by the word “Ouch!” as a mauve stingers claimed 10 miles of beach in time for Memorial Day.
As NASA gets its space shuttles ready to be shipped out to museums, crews have been flooded with requests to squirrel away parts of the spacecraft for analysis.
State governments are strained by the end of federal stimulus money, which helped many stay afloat, and rising Medicaid costs.
Programs would lose their ability to dispense federal student aid if, over the next four years, their graduates fail to meet new benchmarks for loan repayment and ratio of debt to income.
An often-repeated tale says illegal immigrants running from Border Patrol agents started the wildfires that have burned 70,000 acres.
Hurricanes, flooding and winter storms have pushed insurance damage estimates into the billions of dollars.
A proposal by Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. could allow up to 5,500 federal inmates to apply for reduced prison terms.
Another step in a battle that could lead to the Supreme Court is deciding whether President Obama’s legislation goes beyond Congress’s authority to regulate interstate commerce.
If not for a 10-day extension for Sky Express, a deadly crash in Virginia would not have occurred.
Matthew Nestor was sentenced to 13 months in prison for obstructing the investigation into the beating death of a Mexican immigrant in Shenandoah, Pa., in 2008.
Articles in this series explore the growing number of mixed-race Americans.
The Drilling Down series examines the risks of natural-gas drilling and efforts to regulate this rapidly growing industry.
This series follows the deployment of one battalion in the northern Afghanistan surge, chronicling the impact of war on individual soldiers and their families back home.
Articles in this series examine issues arising from the increasing use of medical radiation and the new technologies that deliver it.
Video and diagram showing the final moments of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig.
Browse data from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, based on samples from 2005 to 2009.
As we mark the seventh anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, we remember the fallen service members who lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan.
For some soldiers, returning after their yearlong deployment to Afghanistan was the beginning of new difficulties.
An unexpected report from Moody’s warning about a downgrade in the U.S.’s credit rating puts a spur to sputtering talks to reach an agreement on a long-term deficit-reduction plan.
Tim Pawlenty is among several candidates taking a traditional route, by preaching electability face to face, but it is unknown whether or not these old-fashioned methods will be rewarded.
Analysts are predicting only modest progress on unemployment before November 2012, and gridlock is limiting President Obama’s options.
Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender teenagers talk about their lives in this weeklong series.
Anthony M. Kennedy's opinion in the California prison case recalls the days when the court took charge of failing social institutions.
Expanded coverage of the San Francisco Bay Area is produced by The Bay Citizen, a nonprofit news organization.
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“On Education” looks beyond the discourse to the teachers, principals and students at the heart of learning.
Interactive Feature: A Year at War
