Heavy Rain Causes Flooding Across South - Wall Street Journal

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Heavy rain across the South on Wednesday caused flooding, school and road closures and a landslide that destroyed a home in North Carolina. Thousands of people lost power across the Carolinas as a cold front swept the region with ...

Fla. congressman asks Pelosi for football break - Jackson County Floridan

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Thursday’s championship football game between No. 2 Florida and No. 1 Oklahoma is obviously a big game, but big enough to shut down Congress? Rep. Cliff Stearns hopes so. Stearns, a Republican from Ocala, wrote to U.S ...

Taxpayer tab over Missouri governor's e-mail, staff firing about $1.5M ... - Chicago Tribune

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Outgoing Gov. Matt Blunt's troubles over deleted e-mails and the firing of a staff attorney have cost Missouri taxpayers about $1.5 million. Records obtained by The Associated Press under an open records law show the ...

Israel and Egypt discuss Gaza truce - Financial Times

Senior officials from Israel and Egypt will hold negotiations on Thursday on the details of a ceasefire initiative aimed at ending Israel’s 12-day offensive against the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. In the first sign that Israel might be yielding to ...

Obama names special watchdog for federal spending - Guardian Unlimited

AP White House Correspondent= WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Barack Obama said Wednesday that reforming massive government entitlement programs — such as Social Security and Medicare — would be "a central part" of his effort to ...