Checking a mobile app for the latest emergency room wait times before you rush out the door might seem convenient, but the high-tech tool has left some patients feeling misled.
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The Alberta government, continuing to press its case for the Keystone XL pipeline, has taken out an ad in Sunday's New York Times newspaper, tying the controversial project to core American values and to U.S. pride in its military.
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A man takes his wife to the stock show.
They start heading down the alley that had the bulls.
They come up to the first bull and his sign stated:
"This bull mated 50 times last year."
The wife turns to her husband and says, "He mated 50 times in a year, you could learn from him."
They...
The US Navy intercepted a North Korean ship suspected of carrying missile technology to Myanmar and after dramatic stand-off forced it to turn back, The New York Times reported.
Pyongyang was forced to recall the ship home after last month's confrontation, which involved several days of...
Four journalists covering the fighting in Libya for the New York Times are missing, the newspaper said Wednesday.
The New York Times said the journalists, who included two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Anthony Shadid, were last in contact with their editors Tuesday morning from the town of...
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- An estimated 1 million people marked the passing of one year and the...
NKOTB, Boys plan New Year's gig
NEW YORK, -- New Kids on the Block and Backstreet Boys are to perform from New York's Times Square on "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2011."
ABC said Thursday the male pop acts will join previously announced acts Ke$ha and Taio Cruz in...
Daniel Ellsberg, center, former military analyst who released the "Pentagon Papers" joins the anti-war protest.
Washington -- Police arrested more than a hundred protesters during an anti-war demonstration outside the White House fence Thursday.
The event was part of a rally that also was in...
Aggressive Elmo irks Times Square
NEW YORK, -- Batman and other regular characters in New York's famed Times Square say they aren't happy an aggressive Elmo has returned to bug tourists.
"He swears and curses. Times Square was better when he was gone," the guy dressed as Batman told the...
November vote could cut women in Congress
WASHINGTON, -- Political analysts say the U.S. November elections could result in the first decrease in the number of women in Congress in many years.
David Wasserman, an analyst for the Cook Political Report, told the Los Angeles Times there...
JetBlue attendant vents on passengers
NEW YORK, After jawing with a man upon landing in New York Monday, a JetBlue attendant vented over the plane's intercom, took a beer and slid down the emergency chute.
The New York Times reported the flight attendant, identified as Steven Slater, 38, ran...
Dancer, mime Lorena Yarnell dead at 66
SANDEFJORD, Norway, Lorene Yarnell, part of the U.S. mime team Shields and Yarnell, has died in Sandefjord, Norway at the age of 66, her former husband and partner reported.
Robert Shields told the Los Angeles Times that Yarnell was stricken with a fatal...
Hines Sr. of Hines, Hines and Dad dies
LAS VEGAS, Maurice Hines Sr., a self-taught drummer who joined his tap-dancing sons Gregory and Maurice Jr. as Hines, Hines and Dad, has died at a hospice in Las Vegas.
Relatives said the 88-year-old Hines died after a short illness Tuesday, the Los...
School offers different path to medicine
NEW YORK, A number of students are pursuing medical school through a program that bypasses "hard science" prerequisites and rigorous entrance tests, educators say.
The Humanities and Medicine Program at the Mount Sinai medical school in Manhattan...