Sunday, Mar 21, 2010, Page 8 Amid a severe shortage of migrant workers in coastal Chinese provinces, some local governments there have moved to raise minimum wages and businesses have agreed to...

After seven years in Iraq and nine in Afghanistan, residents of York, Pa., talk about how the wars have become like a screen saver: always there but rarely...

A city council still recovering from a public rebuke -- as Victoria's council is over its plan to replace the Johnson Street Bridge -- needs to work carefully to restore voter confidence.It should...

March 20, 2010 Sandra La Porta fell in love with Lakos the first time she saw him through the bars of his cage. Lakos was a German Shepherd puppy when they met in 2001. Sandra La Porta was a Chicago...

A 21-year-old man was fatally shot in the head early today in North Braddock. The shooting of Josef Moore of North Braddock in the 500 block of Margaret Way was reported at 2:22 a.m. He was...

Westminster election under the banner "Scotland Needs Champions", arguing that better representation in the Commons will give Scotland a stronger voice.But even Alex Salmond must know that his...

NOBODY is in any doubt that the world has changed since 2008, when solicitors voted in favour of reforms which would allow them to adopt new business structures or remain as a traditional solicitors'...

Score one for science. A national panel waded into California's water wars and sided with salmon and smelt in a politically loaded showdown with Central Valley...

U.S. citizens aid the violence Re: "Staying away from Mexico" (Letters, March 17): The writer hopes that everyone will boycott travel to Mexico until its government "reduces corruption, creates...

Since he was in elementary school more than seven decades ago, Ralph Fertig has been, by history's long calculus, one of the good guys -- a civil rights Freedom Rider, a fighter for the down-and-out...

Until President Obama gave his State of the Union speech in January, immigration advocates, Latino leaders and millions who voted for him based on his promise to push for comprehensive reform were...

A growing backlog of federal immigration cases has been a troubling situation for years, especially for a nation that strives to administer justice in a timely fashion. And one of the biggest...

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder's comments to Congress last week that Osama bin Laden would almost certainly not be captured alive were out of line. Holder was saying it's unlikely bin Laden would...

By a depressingly lopsided margin, countries meeting in Doha at the United Nations Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species rejected a proposal by Monaco and the United States to ban...

team of investigators from the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Reserve who were embedded at Lehman headquarters with the sole purpose of ferreting out accounting sleight-of-hand....

He is not a clergyman. He's not a public servant. He's an entertainer. And the rules for him will be different. When Tiger Woods returns to competitive golf at this year's Masters on April 8, his...

The legislative process is a constant battle between "either-ors." Either vote for this or vote for that. Ballots come down between one choice and not another. Rule by the majority is binary. The...

The seemingly endless health care debate remains intensely partisan and now dominates news coverage of Washington, but there are other games in town. Among the most important is the largely...

WASHINGTON — If the Democrats' health care bill were a chemical, the Environmental Protection Agency might label it as a toxic substance lethal to incumbents. More wavering House lawmakers are...

I see that fuzzy math is alive and well in the Congressional Budget Office. Let's see ... the health care bill has a price tag of over $950 billion, and it's going to reduce the deficit $138 billion....

Have you tried calling anyone in Washington, D.C., lately? Numbers are busy. And on the slim chance you do get through, mailboxes are full. They don't want to hear from We the People — except...

At least two men were injured Friday night when a gunman opened fire on a narrow Hill District street, injuring one man there and then chasing another man between two apartment buildings before...

Cornell's Ryan Wittman, rear, and Jeff Foote celebrate after defeating Temple, 78-65, in an NCAA tournament first-round game Friday in Jacksonville,...

BRADENTON, Fla. -- The Pirates cut Pedro Alvarez from their spring roster early Friday morning, essentially on a technicality. And it likely will...

By Michael Whalen One of the properties my company owns is a 100-room limited-service hotel in Iowa. Let me talk about the taxes this one place pays. I'll use 2008 numbers. For starters, we pay...

Donald Lambro The Democratic Congress passed an $18 billion jobs bill last week in the dubious belief that this will have a big impact in a $14 trillion economy that lost 36,000 jobs in February. ...

By Damon W. Root For nearly 80 years, contractors working on federally funded construction projects have been forced to pay their workers artificially inflated wages that rip off American taxpayers...

An heiress of two industrial fortunes, Perle Mesta moved to Washington, D.C., in 1941, became its reigning social hostess and entertained a long list of luminaries, including her good friends...

Pittsburgh police Chief Nate Harper greets Julia and Paul Sciullo during Friday's award ceremonies in the City-County Building, Downtown. Their son, Officer Paul Sciullo II, along with Officers Eric...

As they take their first tentative steps on the pathway to maturity, teens are likely to find that dating is fraught with emotional difficulty and sometimes physical peril. Contrary to the popular...

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin greeted Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Moscow Thursday with the same sort of disagreeable surprise that Israel gave Vice President Joe Biden during his...

Taxes are being raised. Draconian cuts in services are being made. Public employees are being fired. The tissue-thin national economic recovery is being undermined. And in many cases, the most...

appearance on Fox News , insolent interviewer Bret Baier interrupted the president for the umpteenth time to ask him if he thought that the health care bill would pass. Obama responded with a...

Now, it plans to have a relief fund for the retrenched. While these are steps in the right direction towards ensuring that more people get the help that they need, nevertheless, they do not seem to...

AT ITS peak the cost of underwriting Scotland's two major banks RBS and HBOS/Lloyds exceeded £470 billion – more than 13 times the annual Scottish Government budget – and more than three times...

eating these fish for obesity-related ailments.It is an offence, punishable by law, to disturb a pack of eggs when instructed not to do so by an officer, to put on a church concert without first...

The campaign for comprehensive healthcare reform reaches its make-or-break point Sunday, when the House could vote to send the Senate's proposal to the president's desk -- or to kill it. Although the...

By Richard Berman Americans donate more money to charity than people in any other country. Un- fortunately, some of our $300 billion in annual donations goes to frauds and swindlers instead of...

Recent opinion polls have brought signs of life in Downing Street. The last time a winter was longer and colder than this one was 1979 – a gloomy precedent. But it is not too late. For Swinburne's...

Denman , all the rest. Around the country the same. Either you were for one or you were for the other. Two tribes. Two possible outcomes. No other options. And then, what happened? That's right,...

Thursday's violent arrest of peaceful protesters in Havana is consistent with the State Department's 2009 Human Rights Report on Cuba. Released this month, the report said the government has...

It’s impossible to know the exact motive of these attacks without an adequate investigation. But the murders and threats are generating a climate of fear that is likely to have a chilling effect on...

Mark Steyn On Thursday, the California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board voted to set up a committee to examine whether condoms should be required on all pornographic film shoots within...

IN Malaysia, the right to life is guaranteed by Article 5 of the Federal Constitution. But does right to life merely mean the right to breathe, or does it also include the right to quality of life?...

Rumblings arising from the wholesale collapse of finance companies continue unabated. This week, it was Capital + Merchant and Strategic Finance dominating the headlines. In the case of the former,...

Rep. Jason Altmire will vote against the latest version of health care reform when the U.S. House of Representatives votes on the bill this weekend, according to KDKA-TV. The Democrat from...

March 19, 2010 Listeners respond to the story on the $275 million drug heist, the interview with Paralympian Andy Soule and the review of the Dante Quartet's new recording. Melissa Block and Robert...

VIDEO: Watch Lady Gaga's "Telephone" Video (Warning: Contains Content Some People May Find Offensive.) But recently, while I was watching "Telephone" for the fifth or sixth time, and scouring the Web...

Five years after he began the surveillance operation that finally guided a ten-man death squad through the streets of Mumbai in November, 2008, Pakistani-American jihadist David Headley has entered...