I remember when I first started out as a print reporter, I covered a local school board hearing. It was fairly uneventful with the board at the time nearly unanimously voting for a new funding initiative to expand the local high school. Yet when I watched TV coverage that same …

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – There’s a bad smell in parts of the Louisville, Kentucky, area but nobody knows where it’s coming from. Media reports say city crews have been trying for nearly a week to pin down the odor that smells like mildew, but so far they’ve had no luck. Louisville …

Hi, I’m Bill O’Reilly. Thanks for watching us tonight. The left wing in America strikes back. That is the subject of this evening’s Talking Points Memo. Hitler’s minister of propagandaJoseph Goebbels (search)once said “if you tell a lie often enough, it becomes the truth.” Right now there’s huge money flowing …

WASHINGTON – A new report says African Americans and Hispanics have improved health care and are less frequently victims of violent crimes this year than last. But the State of Black America report also shows that these minorities still lag behind whites when it comes to most areas of social …

ST. LOUIS – Police are searching for three young men after a light rail passenger in St. Louis was attacked after being asked what he thought about the “Mike Brown situation.” Officers released details Friday after a passenger who wasn’t involved posted video of the attack on social media. The …

SEATTLE – Dorothy “Dottie” Thomas, the research partner and wife of the Nobel laureate who pioneered the bone marrow transplant, has died in her Seattle-area home at 92. Her death Friday was announced by the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. Her husband, the late Dr. E. Donnall Thomas, …

ATLANTA – Playing the Rev. Martin Luther King was deeply emotional and a heavy burden to bear, actor David Oyelowo told a crowd gathered at Ebenezer Baptist Church, the spiritual home of the slain civil rights leader in Atlanta. Oyelowo, who played King in “Selma,” gave a tribute Monday at …

VIENNA – A kangaroo is on the loose in frigid and snowy Austria, hopping his way toward dispelling a famous slogan. “No kangaroos in Austria” T-shirts and souvenirs have been big-sellers for years in the alpine nation, since some people confuse Austria with Australia. Anton the kangaroo bounded away from …

BOSTON – A federal judge continued questioning prospective jurors Thursday in the federal death penalty trial of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Those questioned included people who said they cannot be impartial because they already believe Tsarnaev is guilty, people who said they could not impose the death penalty …

MADISON, Wis. – Two girls accused of stabbing a classmate in a southeastern Wisconsin park to please a fantasy character called Slender Man will find out this week whether they will be tried on attempted homicide charges. A preliminary hearing for the two Waukesha girls is set to begin Monday …