Back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth and children walked to school -- uphill both ways -- students who failed a class had two options: Retake it next year and risk being held back, or brave the sweaty halls of summer school. (Today)

Scores of politicians mixed with tens of thousands of union partisans Monday in the Labor Day rite that marks the unofficial kickoff of the fall political season. (Today)

President Barack Obama, who faces a false but growing perception that he is a Muslim, isn't the first president to encounter claims that his faith isn't what he says it is. (Today)

Tax us, please. That's the surprising plea from local energy companies and barge operators who depend upon the area's rivers for their business, and are desperate for federal upgrades to the waterways' crumbling locks and dams. (Today)

HARRISBURG -- Last year, the insects called brown marmorated stink bugs were a nuisance. This year, they are a serious threat to fruit orchards, and experts are not sure how destructive they might become. (Today)