SUNSHINE WEEK: An AP question and answer session with the government's open records ombudsman As part of Sunshine Week, when news organizations highlight the importance of government openness, the nation's new Freedom of Information Act ombudsman, Miriam Nisbet, took part in an ...
Los Angeles Galaxy's Landon Donovan talks on his cell phone before a meeting Saturday, March 20, 2010, in Washington. Major League Soccer and its players called a joint news conference, Saturday and were near agreement on a five-year contract that would avoid ...
Miriam Nisbet, director of the Office of Government Information Services answers questions during an interview at the Associated Press in Washington, Friday, March 19, 2010. (AP Photo/J. David Ake) Copyright 2010 AP News
Compensation for DuPont chair and CEO Kullman more than doubled in 2009 DuPont Co. chairman and chief executive officer Ellen Kullman received compensation valued at $8.3 million last year, more than double what she received a year earlier, according to an Associated ...
Man who acted as lawyer for US missionaries in Haiti detained on human-trafficking charges A fugitive who once acted as the lawyer for a group of U.S. Baptist missionaries accused of kidnapping 33 Haitian children was arrested on human-trafficking charges, authorities said ...
Correction: WHO drug-resistant TB story In a March 18 story about drug-resistant tuberculosis, The Associated Press reported erroneously that there were no U.S. cases in 2008 of extensively drug-resistant TB. There were four cases in 2008 and no cases in 2009, according ...
Pay package for Travelers Cos. CEO rises 20 percent in 2009 to $20.1 million Travelers Cos. gave its CEO a pay package worth $20.1 million last year, a 20 percent raise over his 2008 pay as the property and casualty insurer benefited ...
Wartime Serb army Gen. Vlado Trifunovic gestures during an interview with The Associated Press, in Belgrade hotel room, Serbia, Friday March 19, 2010. Serbia this week dropped charges against Trifunovic, who was declared a traitor by Slobodan Milosevic's nationalist regime for refusing ...
Pope's former diocese in Munich takes on "tsunami" of abuse cases Pope Benedict XVI's former diocese is facing new allegations of physical and sexual abuse on a daily basis, the head of its new sex-abuse task force said Friday. "It is like ...
SC Gov. agrees to pay $74,000 in ethics fines over travel, spending; His divorce becomes final South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford has closed two chapters of his life, agreeing to pay $74,000 in fines to resolve ethics charges brought against him after ...
