AUSTIN, Texas — The daughter of a man who crashed his small plane into a building housing offices of the Internal Revenue Service called her father a hero for his anti-government views but said his actions, which killed an IRS employee, were “inappropriate.”
NEW YORK — Your next credit card statement is going to contain an ugly truth: how much that card really costs to use. Now, thanks to a long-awaited law that goes into effect Monday, you’ll know that if you pay the minimum on a $3,000 balance with a 14 percent interest rate, it could take you 10 years to pay off.
WASHINGTON — For decades the standard question at U.S. grocery store check-out counters has been “Paper or Plastic?” But since January, consumers in the U.S. capital have faced a different question: “Will you pay 5 cents for a bag?”
WASHINGTON — Making a last-ditch effort to save his health care overhaul, President Barack Obama on Monday put forward a nearly $1 trillion, 10-year compromise that would allow the government to deny or roll back egregious insurance premium increases that infuriated consumers.
An ailing Sierra Boggess, who co-starred in “Phantom: The Las Vegas Spectacular,” missed the final dress rehearsal for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s new Phantom musical “Love Never Dies,” according to published reports. She was sick with a fever. Previews were to start today at London’s Adelphi Theatre . Boggess, 27, born and raised in Denver, left the Las Vegas show to play the lead in “The Little Mermaid” on Broadway. The new Phantom is to open on Broadway in November.
Imagine how dull golf would be without Tiger Woods. The game would be an afterthought now, ranking somewhere below figure skating in terms of interest from sports fans and the media.
DURANGO, Colo. — A band of winter storms that brought more than a foot of snow to southwest Colorado briefly closed some mountain passes for avalanche control work Sunday and prompted travel warnings for parts of Nevada and southern Utah.
Billie-Marie Morrison’s own heart problems have motivated her to begin advocating for women’s heart health. She recently became a WomenHeart Champion after graduating from a symposium at the prestigious Mayo Clinic in Minnesota.
Boots and his friend are talking by the bar inside odd little club Haze, where dim light bulbs glow as fuzzy halos above bartenders’ heads.
