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Am. Samoa to keep flier miles of govt travelers

Am. Samoa to keep flier miles of govt travelers
By FILI SAGAPOLUTELEAssociated Press PAGO PAGO, American Samoa (AP) - American Samoa plans to take away frequent flier miles from government workers who travel on behalf of the U.S. territory and use the loyalty points to help medical patients and students travel off the islands when necessary.

Am. Samoa to keep flier miles of govt travelers

Am. Samoa to keep flier miles of govt travelers
By FILI SAGAPOLUTELEAssociated Press PAGO PAGO, American Samoa (AP) - American Samoa plans to take away frequent flier miles from government workers who travel on behalf of the U.S. territory and use the loyalty points to help medical patients and students travel off the islands when necessary.

Obama to honor Carole King at White House concert

Obama to honor Carole King at White House concert
By DARLENE SUPERVILLEAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama is showing singer-songwriter Carole King that she has friends at the White House. In the East Room on Wednesday night, Obama is presenting the 71-year-old singer-songwriter with the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. She

Fiat Industrial aims to shift tax home to Britain

Fiat Industrial aims to shift tax home to Britain
By COLLEEN BARRYAP Business Writer MILAN (AP) - Fiat Industrial disputed as "absolutely false" reports Wednesday that Italy would lose 500 million euros ($646 million) in tax revenues if it moves its tax base to Britain after it completes a merger with its U.S.-based subsidiary CNH Global NV. But

Fed weighed slowing its pace of bond purchases

Fed weighed slowing its pace of bond purchases
By MARTIN CRUTSINGERAP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Several Federal Reserve policymakers this month favored slowing the Fed's efforts to maintain record-low long-term interest rates as early as June - if the economy showed strong and sustained growth. But those officials appeared at odds

Fox show brings messy workplaces to television

Fox show brings messy workplaces to television
By DAVID BAUDERAP Television Writer NEW YORK (AP) - This time "you're fired" is more than a Donald Trump catchphrase. Fox is turning the firing of real people from real jobs into prime-time entertainment starting this week. The network on Thursday will begin airing "Does Someone Have to Go?" a

Fox show brings messy workplaces to television

Fox show brings messy workplaces to television
By DAVID BAUDERAP Television Writer NEW YORK (AP) - This time "you're fired" is more than a Donald Trump catchphrase. Fox is turning the firing of real people from real jobs into prime-time entertainment starting this week. The network on Thursday will begin airing "Does Someone Have to Go?" a

Fox show brings messy workplaces to television

Fox show brings messy workplaces to television
By DAVID BAUDERAP Television Writer NEW YORK (AP) - This time "you're fired" is more than a Donald Trump catchphrase. Fox is turning the firing of real people from real jobs into prime-time entertainment starting this week. The network on Thursday will begin airing "Does Someone Have to Go?" a

Fox show brings messy workplaces to television

Fox show brings messy workplaces to television
By DAVID BAUDERAP Television Writer NEW YORK (AP) - This time "you're fired" is more than a Donald Trump catchphrase. Fox is turning the firing of real people from real jobs into prime-time entertainment starting this week. The network on Thursday will begin airing "Does Someone Have to Go?" a

One block: How neighbors saw twister's deadly path

One block: How neighbors saw twister's deadly path
By ALLEN G. BREEDAP National Writer MOORE, Okla. (AP) - Dan Garland could feel the latch on the shelter door begin to turn in his hand. It was as if the storm outside were a living, breathing thing - and it was trying desperately to get in. Huddled beside him in the darkened 5-foot-by-6-foot hole