The Food and Drug Administration is recommending new restrictions on prescription medicines containing hydrocodone, the highly addictive painkiller that has grown into the most widely prescribed drug in the U.S.
New York Times best-selling author Mary Alice Monroe told Brenau University students this week that as writers they may work in solitary, but to be successful they must "open the window and let the story come in."
As states open insurance marketplaces amid uncertainty about whether they're a solution for health care, Vermont is eyeing a bigger goal, one that more fully embraces a government-funded model.
A pickup in deliveries helped Atlanta-based UPS more than double its profit from a year ago, when Big Brown took a hit from pension-restructuring costs.
Secretary of State John Kerry went to Europe to talk about Mideast peace, Syria and Iran. What he got was an earful of outrage over U.S. snooping abroad.
