Obama: Time to turn the page on housing woes

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says the housing market is healing, but it's time to turn the page on the "bubble-and-bust mentality" that led to the market's collapse. In his weekly radio and Internet address, Obama calls on Congress to let all...

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Woods Hole farm focuses on fiery peppers

FALMOUTH, Mass. — Just their menacing names alone may be enough to get some folks all hot and bothered: the devil's tongue, the ghost pepper and the Trinidad Moruga scorpion. Try taking a raw bite into one of these bad boys and that would lead to some...

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Mass. shoppers hit stores for sales tax holiday

BOSTON — Shoppers across Massachusetts are hitting the stores to take advantage of another summer tax-free weekend. The one-time tax break will apply to retail sales, but will exclude any single item priced higher than $2,500 on Saturday and Sunday....

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TV blackouts aren't shutting out fans completely

LOS ANGELES — A week into the blackout of CBS programming to millions of Time Warner Cable subscribers, viewers are finding workarounds. Nancy Keiter, a graphic designer in New York, plans to watch early rounds of the PGA Championship golf tournament...

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RI, Mass., Conn., want better energy efficiency

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The U.S. Department of Energy has committed itself to updating energy efficiency standards for four common commercial appliances by May of next year, preventing a legal showdown with authorities in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode...

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Blue Cross reaches out over insurance law changes

MORRISVILLE, N.C. — Just down from the Target and Gander Mountain big-box stores and between a nail salon and dental office, North Carolina's largest health insurer opened its first retail store. It has some exercise offerings — step aerobics classes...

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10 years after blackout, US grid faces new threats

The U.S. electrical grid is better managed and more flexible a decade after its largest blackout but remains vulnerable to increasingly extreme weather, cybersecurity threats, and stress caused by shifts in where and how power is produced. Many worry...

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The day the lights went out: The blackout of 2003

A power blackout beginning the afternoon of Aug. 14, 2003, cascaded from northeast Ohio to seven other states and parts of Canada, reaching 50 million people. Some of the immediate and long-term effects: ___ THE DARK SIDE: Outages of various durations...

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A look at the US electric grid and who oversees it

The U.S. electrical grid is a complex system of power plants, transmission lines, and local distribution networks that deliver power to homes and businesses. It comprises three major grids — Eastern, Western and Texas — which are divided into hundreds...

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10 years after blackout, US grid faces new threats

The U.S. electrical grid is better managed and more flexible a decade after its largest blackout. But it remains vulnerable to new threats. In 2003, grid operators didn't initially realize what was happening. They now have a nearly real-time view and...

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