The Louisiana Municipal Police Employees Retirement System wants a federal judge in Pittsburgh to stop FirstEnergy's proposed $4.7 billion takeover of the western Pennsylvania electric company. The retirement system owns an unspecified amount of Allegheny Energy stock which it claims is being undervalued in the ...

Unsettling weather activity was forecast to continue to develop throughout the Mid- and Eastern U.S. on Thursday. The strong low that was once centered over the Central Plains was expected to lift northeastward into the Mid-Mississippi Valley with a swath of mixed precipitation. While areas of precipitation would continue to develop throughout portions of ...

Only Ohio and Native American tribes in Washington and Oregon have so far met the deadline to comply with a federal law passed nearly three years ago to coordinate and expand sex offender registration nationwide, a U.S. Justice Department official said Wednesday. States and tribes have ...