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Jolie puts spotlight on a stark choice

Updated: May 16, 2013 10:30am

Angelina Jolie won new fans — some in unlikely places — when she revealed Tuesday that she’d had a double mastectomy to ward off a very high genetic risk of breast cancer.

“I’ve become a...

CBS unveils schedule with six new shows

Updated: May 16, 2013 10:30am

NEW YORK — Wrapping up a season in which it will finish first in both viewers and the crucial adults 18-49 demographic that advertisers favor, CBS unveiled a fall television schedule Wednesday...

Wenatchee High School will require swimming lessons for non-swimming students

Updated: May 16, 2013 10:30am

WENATCHEE — The Wenatchee School Board adopted a new swimming program Tuesday that calls for swim assessment tests for all freshman PE students.

The program for the coming year includes...

<p>Glenn Koenig | Los Angeles Times</p><p>Pinny Dembitzer, president of Sea Gate homeowners association, surveys the Sea Gate neighborhood in November after Hurricane Sandy.</p>

AccuWeather predicts active Atlantic hurricane season

Updated: May 16, 2013 10:30am

BALTIMORE — AccuWeather.com is predicting another active Atlantic hurricane season, particularly for the U.S. coastline.

While the Pennsylvania-based meteorology company is calling for fewer...

House Republicans, White House look to change student loan rates

Updated: May 16, 2013 10:30am

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Republicans in the House of Representatives and President Barack Obama agree in general on what to do with student loan interest rates: Let them vary with the market.

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<p>Bob Chamberlin | Los Angeles Times</p><p>A sunrise view is seen at EDF Renewable field of gigantic wind turbines, which stand nearly 300 feet high near Rio Vista, Calif., Sept. 24, 2012.</p>

Legislation would give clean energy more access to investment tool

Updated: May 16, 2013 10:30am

Congressional lawmakers from both parties are taking a step to catalyze the nation’s clean energy economy: After 32 years of restricting a crucial investment tool to expanding fossil fuels, they’...

Smokeless tobacco use among US kids and teens has leveled off

Updated: May 16, 2013 10:30am

LOS ANGELES — After years of decline, the rate of smokeless tobacco use among young people in the U.S. has leveled off, new research shows.

In 2011, 5.2 percent of middle school and high...

Home care aides deserve back pay, high court told

Updated: May 16, 2013 10:30am

The Washington Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday in a class-action case brought by live-in home care aides against the state Department of Social and Health Services that could cost taxpayers...

Inside the First Amendment — Watergate Era ‘a’ peak, not ‘the’ peak

Updated: May 16, 2013 10:30am

Forty years ago this month, The Washington Post — and its self-described “young and hard-digging reporters, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein” — took home a Pulitzer Prize for public service for...

Hydrant flushing planned in Aberdeen

Updated: May 16, 2013 10:30am

The City of Aberdeen will start flushing its fire hydrants Monday, May 20. The process will continue for about three weeks.

Residents noticing any changes in water quality for more than one...