ATLANTA, Aug. 11 (UPI) — Rookie Tommy Hanson struck out nine over 6 2/3 innings Tuesday to help the Atlanta Braves subdue the Washington Nationals 8-1.

The car rebate plan is trying to balance two very different objectives: saving Detroit and changing the habits of consumers.

Hundreds of people, many weeping openly, came to a vigil in a Ridgefield church Monday evening for four teenagers who were killed in a car crash – and a fifth critically injured – that same morning.<p/>Fatally injured were Aja Gerrity, 17, Amanda Williams, 18, Jason Cary Carter, 18, and Richard "Ritchie" Araiza, 18.

A Colorado climber has died in a mountaineering accident in North Cascades National Park.

I woke up this morning planning to write about Newt Gingrich or maybe Sarah Palin. But they’ll have to wait because it’s Monday. And that means there’s another Robert Samuelson column out in the Washington Post.

Many states have begun applying the severe laws more sparingly. Washington is beginning to revisit three-strikes cases, giving some nonviolent offenders another chance.

Stevan Dozier was 25 when he punched a woman in the face to snatch her purse, another episode in the cash-for-crack crime wave that plagued America’s big cities during the 1980s.

Emily Yoffe, aka Dear Prudence, is on Washingtonpost.com every Monday at 1 p.m. to chat with readers about their romantic, family, financial, and workplace problems. (Read Prudie’s Slate columns here.)[more …]

Washington Mutual officially becomes Chase today.

Pinkham Notch - Paul West, 65, of Brockton, Mass., went over an embankment and crashed into a tree at about 11:50 a.m Saturday, about two miles up the mountain.

A woman escaped from her car, apparently uninjured, after it went into Lake Washington at Colman Park on Saturday morning.