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• Feds start wait list for converter box coupons
WASHINGTON - Consumers who apply for federal coupons to pay for converter boxes ahead of next month's transition to digital television broadcasts are being placed on a waiting list and may not receive their vouchers before the switchover, the ...
• Matthews says he won't run for Pa. Senate seat
WASHINGTON - MSNBC political commentator Chris Matthews has told his colleagues he won't be leaving television to run for a U.S. Senate seat from Pennsylvania. MSNBC spokesman Jeremy Gaines says Matthews told the staff of his "Hardball" show ...
• The city and life I have known no longer exist’ 
We listen to battery-run radios for news, even though the outside world watches what's happening to us on television. Grocery stores are closed and food is scarce. Hospital officials say more than 600 Palestinians have been killed in Israel's military ...
• Israel conditionally welcomes cease-fire plan
Osama Hamdan, a Hamas representative in Lebanon close to the group's leadership in Syria, told al-Jazeera television that Hamas will not accept any initiative that does not include the withdrawal of the Israeli army from Gaza and the opening of all ...
• Dick Clark is still rockin’ New Year’s Eve
The "American Bandstand" icon and longtime producer of the American Music Awards, Academy of Country Music Awards and Golden Globes has long considered them "my television kids." He's also watched their ratings plummet in recent years. "There was a ...