Inhaler drugs used by millions of people with emphysema and bronchitis may slightly raise the risk for heart attacks and even death, a study suggests. ...more

September 24, 2008

The sudden death of her 60-year-old father in 1969 was Lucille Malaney's first personal experience with tragic loss. She was 27 and stationed at an Air Force base in California; her family home was in Vermont. ...more

September 17, 2008

Insurgents killed two U.S. troops in Afghanistan on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks Thursday, making 2008 the deadliest year for American forces since U.S. troops invaded the country in 2001 for sheltering Osama bin Laden. ...more

September 12, 2008

Soldier suicides this year could surpass the record rate of last year, Army officials said Thursday, urging military leaders at all levels to redouble prevention efforts for a force strained by two wars. ...more

September 5, 2008

Nearly four months after China's devastating earthquake, a government scientist acknowledged Thursday that a rush to build schools in recent years likely led to construction flaws that caused so many of them to collapse. ...more

September 5, 2008

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Thursday that he had reason to think U.S. personnel were in the combat zone during the recent war in Georgia, adding that if confirmed, their presence suggested "someone in the United States" provoked the conflict to help one of the candidates in the American presidential race. ...more

August 29, 2008

Polk County sheriff's detectives are investigating the shooting deaths of Larry C. Rimmer, 40, and his 37-year-old wife, Heather L., in their home at 5802 Highridge Loop. ...more

August 23, 2008

The Army is mailing out thousands of letters to survivors of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, asking what it can do to better help them, even years after the deaths of their loved ones. ...more

August 21, 2008

Robert Bell of Holiday says the war in Iraq has had many negative impacts. ...more

August 16, 2008

Bruce E. Ivins, the government's leading suspect in the 2001 anthrax killings, borrowed freeze-drying equipment from a bioweapons lab that fall that allows scientists to convert wet germ cultures into dry spores, according to sources briefed on the case. ...more

August 5, 2008