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State worker union members have ratified a contract that will prevent nearly 3500 lay offs , though members make several concessions, including a three…

A columnist for China Daily says by buying his own coffee Ambassador Gary Locke has become a model for what Chinese public servants should be like.

There was supposedly some snickering from jaded folks on the West Coast of the U.S. as they watched many on the East Coast express alarm over Tuesday's earthquake. But the temblor made many in the East think of Sept. 11, 2001.

Pieces of twisted metal and scrap wood left behind by a massive tornado that tore through Joplin, Mo., are now sitting in a gallery in Kansas City. The sculptures and paintings from the wreckage are to be sold at auction Saturday.

Early Sunday morning, Hurricane Irene rolled through southern New Jersey. Guest host John Ydstie speaks with Pamela Grites of the American Red Cross Southern Shore Chapter about Hurricane Irene's effects on southern New Jersey.

Why was New York state's Tappan Zee Bridge built at one of the widest spots on the Hudson River when it would have been much cheaper and easier to build it a few miles south? Newspaper clippings from the 1940s and '50s revealed something suspicious.

Jogging beats pumping iron when it comes to getting rid of unhealthy belly fat, according to researchers at Duke University. Overweight adults who exercised by lifting weights for eight months got stronger, but the ones who jogged 12 miles a week lost visceral fat linked to diabetes and heart disease.

A widowed Florida rabbi saw the cost of his insurance coverage rise by 38 percent this year. So he decided to look for a new, younger spouse to help him bring costs back down.

Anna Hazare will be allowed to stage a 15-day hunger strike in New Delhi. Hazare's arrest incited protests all over India. Hazare is proposing a broad-reaching anti-corruption commission.

Two economists doubt accountable care organizations, a key tool for improving costs and quality under the federal health overhaul, will be able to temper the medical system's lust for the latest expensive technology. Costs and quality of care are are at stake.