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Just a quick glance at the front page, and it’s easy to tell what issues are heating up Washington these days: the separation of church and state, states'…

Crown Room Chocolate CrinklesFrom Marg Wagner, wife of Hallmark artist John WagnerMy husband John worked at Hallmark for 40+ years and these were one of…

Detroit and Birmingham, Ala., top a new national list of school district boundaries that separate the haves from the have nots.

The Federal Reserve said 15 of the country's top 19 banks have enough capital to survive a "severe recession." The Fed tested them assuming an unemployment rate of 13 percent and a 50 percent drop in equity prices.

It's a good time to brew beer in America. According to beer expert Julia Herz, U.S. brewing isn't just on the upswing, it's on top. "We're now the No. 1 destination for beer, based on diversity and amount of beers," she says. And the industry's fastest growth is in craft breweries.

Despite the Great Recession, slow recovery and political dysfunction in Washington, the United States remains a top destination for the world's wealth. The Obama administration is urging foreign business leaders to build more plants and offices in this country.

Low pay is the top reason teachers leave the classroom, a new survey of Missouri public school educators found. The state’s Department of Elementary and...

The county also looks to be on pace to top a record it just set in August: the most requests for mail-in ballots.

The unemployment rate dropped unexpectedly to 8.6 percent in November, in part because hundreds of thousands of Americans stopped looking for work. But analysts said the modest increase of 120,000 jobs created last month points to an economy that's generally still limping.

More than 6,000 incidents involving children and liquid laundry packets have been reported to poison control centers so far this year. The health problems include respiratory distress and vomiting.