Forty states have sued tobacco companies over the costs of health care for residents on Medicaid and public assistance.
Cincinnatians support a symphony, an opera, a ballet, museums, many galleries and theater groups.
In Montana, where Sen. William Andrews Clark made his fortune and lost his reputation, people had assumed that all his children were long dead. After all, he was born in 1839 and was of age to serve in the Civil War.
I'm not in the what-people-feel business. It is not my place to guess.
NBC News found that FEMA has redrawn maps even for properties that have repeatedly filed claims for flood losses from previous storms. At least some of the properties are on the secret 'repetitive loss list' that FEMA sends to communities to alert them to problem properties.
Brand names are well known to business school professors, but only one professor is a brand name herself. Call her Professor Oprah.
It may be no surprise that Pittsburgh has direct flights to London, Paris and Frankfurt, but consider this: many of the tourists here have come from Europe to the capital of culture in the Alleghenies.
Every scandal has its road kill: the pedestrians who stumble into the headlights of the oncoming 18-wheeler.
The entire federal budget for landslide research is $3.5 million a year - far less than the property value lost on a single day when 17 mansions slid down a hill in 2005 in Laguna Beach, Calif.
William Andrews Clark was caught in a bribery scandal during a campaign for the U.S. Senate - he was said to describe the Montana legislators this way: 'I never bought a man who wasn't for sale.'
Fans love McGwire for his powerful physique, for his on-field hugs of his son, the part-time bat boy. He is Big Mac, or Paul Bunyan in Cardinals red with a white-ash bat instead of an ax.
FEMA says that it does not factor in previous losses into its decisions on applications to redraw the flood zones.
In votes cast, Latinos have increased to five million in the 1996 Presidential election, up from two million in the 1976 election. The number of Hispanic elected officials has not risen so fast.
Lie detectors sometimes work because people believe they work, deterring the wrong people from applying for jobs in the first place, or prompting admissions of guilt during interrogations.
Although some Clinton biographers have been quick to label Alinsky a communist, he maintained that he never joined the Communist Party.
Though some student activists of the 1960s may have idolized Alinsky, he didn't particularly idolize them.
The Obama administration is fighting to block access to names of visitors to the White House, taking up the Bush administration argument that a president doesn't have to reveal who comes calling to influence policy decisions.
Groups that advocate open government have argued that it's vital to know the names of White House visitors, who may have an outsized influence on policy matters.
I'm pretty much a documents reporter. I'm a public records geek.
I'm not a person who has people tell me things in parking garages.
