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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – An Arkansas police officer who used a stun gun on an unruly 10-year-old girl has been suspended — not for using the Taser but for not having a video camera attached when he used it.

President Obama on Monday signed an executive order designed to boost the number of veterans in the federal workforce. The directive creates Veterans Employment Program offices in federal agencies, to match veterans with job openings and help them navigate the application process. The offices also will give veterans guidance on how to adjust to civilian life after they are hired. "This ...

Sleep experts say man’s disorder left him unable to control his actions

Only a 7-month supply of homes on market; bidding wars are erupting

Fed official: Central bank should keep program that holds interest rates low

Imagine working for an outfit with a 3-step rank-in-person system instead of 15 grades. A system where outstanding employees could be rewarded, big time, and losers could be punished financially (maybe losing annual leave) and, if necessary fired quickly without red tape and endless appeals. Imagine that if the boss proposed to fire you, you could demand a trial, complete with ...

NEW YORK – Stock futures are pointing to a higher opening Monday as the dollar weakened and investors try to snap a three-day losing streak.

While searching for work alongside 16 million people who are angling for the same openings, getting a hiring manager to tell you why you didn't get hired is about as easy as actually getting the job.

WASHINGTON – Home resales for October are projected to rise to the highest level in more than two years as first-time buyers, anticipating that a tax credit would soon expire, rushed to beat the clock.

Economists expect the joblessness that has weighed down the nation's economic recovery will start to slowly abate in 2010, but they predict consumers will continue to keep a tight rein on spending, according to a new survey.

LONDON – World markets rose sharply Monday amid further hopeful signs about the economic recovery. Commodity stocks led the charge, particularly in London, after gold hit another record high amid renewed dollar weakness.

NEW YORK – For the first time in a decade, more people paid their credit card bills on time in the third quarter this year than in the second quarter.

The effort to expand domestic benefits to the same-sex partners of federal employees took another step forward Wednesday when a House committee advanced legislation to do just that. After sometimes heated debate, the 23 to 12 vote in the Oversight and Government Reform Committee broke down along party lines, with the victorious Democrats arguing that the measure is a matter of ...

In greater detail than he has before, Office of Personnel Management Director John Berry outlined his thinking on remaking the federal personnel system during a speech this week. His address to a Human Capital Management: Federal conference was part of a series of discussions he is holding to help in the monumental task of developing a new civil service system. With ...

But retail observers say that won’t necessarily mean a great season

  Oath Keepers Pegged as Hate Group in Montana Text size MARTIN J. KIDSTON   In Hamilton, they call themselves Celebrating Conservatism. In Eureka, they are the Lincoln County Watch, in Bozeman, they are the Oath Keepers.   The names may vary but the groups share a common platform that has gained the attention of researchers this past year, including those who ...

02/24/09 Recent events indicate a new and troubling development has occurred in the current terrorism environment. As spoken to by the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the former head of the Egyptian Security Services, the threat posed by, “Home Grown”, terrorists has increased significantly. What both of these gentlemen have identified, as the result of current terrorist activity, is that ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A new poll shows Southerners are fretting about job loss and the economy and don't think the federal government is doing enough to address either. The Winthrop Poll of 866 respondents in 11 Southern states found the economy was the top concern of four in 10 — the same share of people who said they were concerned about ...

Presidential executive orders are lofty, historical documents, generally signed in White House ceremonies with pomp and circumstance. Seldom do we think of them beginning in a small town on the eastern edge of West Virginia. But it was in Shepherdstown, with a population of 803 at last count, where President Obama's latest executive order, designed to facilitate the hiring of veterans ...

Sen. Dodd calls Fed’s attempt at banking regulation an ‘abysmal failure’