Opinion: We have the chance and the need to make sure our tax dollars are spent wisely.

Last month’s devastating blast in West, Tex., did little to shake local skepticism of government regulations, and recent efforts to push for more oversight have faced strong resistance.    

Aggressive fiscal and monetary policy and structural reforms are presenting investment opportunities in Japan, Dan Loeb said.

Prosecutors say they may seek murder charges against a man accused of abducting three women, saying he forced at least one of them to miscarry.    

The Senate Judiciary Committee began looking into amendments intended to reshape legislation to overhaul the nation’s immigration laws.    

Many of the world's finance chiefs will meet on Friday to discuss if central banks can do more to bolster a global recovery.

As hearings into the Boston bombings begin, the tenure of Robert S. Mueller III is facing new scrutiny, months from his plans to step down.    

Acquaintances of Tamerlan Tsarnaev in Russia said he was already interested in waging jihad when he arrived there last year, but they discouraged him from joining a militant group.    

It is the season for guest speakers all across America. College graduation season draws near for many who have spent four arduous years working on their degrees.

Jonesboro police are looking for a bold and nicely dressed female burglar.

Pimco Total Return Fund increased its U.S. Treasurys holdings to the highest in over a year in April.

The governer calls into a Playbook Cocktails event to discuss his lap band surgery.

A team of smokejumpers parachuting into a fire in the mountains of Southern Oregon landed in an illegal marijuana garden being prepared for growing season.

The six smokejumpers from a base in Redmond found the site Monday evening, when there was a rash of lightning strikes.

Jackson County sheriff's spokeswoman Andrea Carlson says the smokejumpers notified authorities, who hiked into the remote site in the Rogue River-Siskiyou (SIS'-kee-yoo) National Forest. They seized two guns and more than 1,000 little pot plants.

Carlson says the site near the community of Applegate was being cultivated by growers for Mexican drug gangs, and it's been used before.

She says the smokejumpers saw some people but weren't sure whether they were pot growers, so no one was arrested.

The smokejumpers extinguished the fire after it burned less than an acre.

Arizona authorities have arrested an 18-year-old Phoenix man in connection with a bomb threat that was tweeted after the Jodi Arias verdict was announced.

Maricopa County Sheriff's Deputy Joaquin Enriquez says Laquint Cherry was taken into custody early Thursday. He's facing a felony charge for making threats.

The investigation began Wednesday night after someone tweeted that an explosive device was going to be placed in the courtroom and was going to detonate Thursday afternoon. The sheriff's office increased security and conducted additional bomb sweeps but found nothing.

Enriquez says detectives traced the Twitter activity to a hotel in west Phoenix. The bomb squad and the SWAT team responded, and Cherry eventually came out of the hotel room. A woman who was with him was questioned and released.

Enriquez says the investigation is ongoing.

It wasn't immediately clear if Cherry had legal representation.

The bill also tries to secure Southern GOP votes with target prices for rice and peanut producers.

Some polls show him in a tight race with Ed Markey, but the hurdles facing the Republican are high.