Category Archives: WPTF News

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday that he would move to try to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the "Gulf of America," a name he said has a "beautiful ring to it." ...

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - Marin Plank truly had no interest in birds when she gave her husband a camera-equipped bird feeder for his birthday. But by Christmas, she had beco...

By BILL BARROW Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Nearly 44 years after Jimmy Carter left the nation's capital in humbling defeat, the 39th president returns to Washington for three days of state fune...

By PATRICK WHITTLE and BRIAN WITTE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - A huge swath of the U.S. was blasted with ice, snow and wind on Monday as the polar vortex that dipped south over the weekend ...

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) - The first U.S. bird flu death has been reported - a person in Louisiana who had been hospitalized with severe respiratory symptoms. State health offici...

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - North Carolina General Assembly elections were finalized Monday as officials issued certificates to the winners in three close legislative ra...

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden is moving to ban new offshore oil and gas drilling in most U.S. coastal waters, a last-minute effort to block possible action by ...

By LISA MASCARO, MARY CLARE JALONICK, FARNOUSH AMIRI and MATT BROWN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Congress convened Monday under heavy security and a snowstorm to certify President-elect Donald T...