WASHINGTON -- Between public transportation, cabs and rides from friends, Adina Ryter got around fairly easily during the three years since she sold her car. But every so often, she still yearned for the occasional freedom that having a car gave her. “I could get to 90 percent of where I ..

Fútbol es la palabra en español, ¨soccer¨es la palabra en inglés, y este deporte es algunas veces el pasaporte para que algunos estudiantes sudamericanos ingresen al sistema universitario de los Estados Unidos.Si bien no existen registros en cuanto al número de estudiantes sudamericanos que ..

The willingness of some Atlantic Coast Conference schools to sacrifice tradition for a dollar-driven drive to add at least three Big East universities to a conference already rich in rivalries has coaches and even some members of Congress concerned. "The bottom line has become the dominant theme," ..

Washington -- Getting money into state hands is the best way to continue combating chronic wasting disease in elk and deer, state and federal officials told a House subcommittee Thursday.Witnesses stressed that state control of money and cooperation between state and federal agencies are the ..

Washington -- Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., wants to make sure that people who play with fire on public land “get burned.”So he introduced a bill that would increase the minimum penalty for violating fire restrictions to $1,000. Under current law, federal district courts set fines in the ..

The fight over fast food and obesity made its way to Capitol Hill Thursday when a House subcommittee discussed whether to prohibit lawsuits holding restaurants responsible for making people fat.Rep. Ric Keller, R-Fla., sponsor of the "Personal Responsibility in Food Consumption Act," said that the ..

Twenty-one-year-old Lin fled her village in China when she was 16 and learned that her parents had sold her into an arranged marriage. “I was terrified at the thought of spending my life with someone I did not know,” she said at a Capitol Hill press conference Thursday. “I was ..

Washington -- Acts of violence against women, lack of civilian security and a weak central authority in Afghanistan are still major problems, experts told the House Committee on International Relations on Thursday.Rep.Tom Lantos, D-Calif., said that United States and NATO have to be “more ..

A humble retiree from San Angelo, Texas, received a Jefferson Award for Public Service Tuesday for his volunteer work. Donald E. Ruckelshausen, a 65-year-old retired Air Force master sergeant and fireman, was one of 57 “unsung heroes” to receive the American Institute for Public ..

WASHINGTON -- A woman from Corpus Christi, Texas, who devotes herself to helping abused teen-agers won a Jefferson Award for Public Service, joining 56 other "unsung heroes" recognized here this week. Helen Elaine Brundrett was born 57 years ago in Santon, Texas, and moved to Corpus Christi in ..