Values

* Expenses crisis threatening to undermine government * Conservatives trailing in opinion polls By David Ljunggren OTTAWA, May 19 (Reuters) - The top aide to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper abruptly resigned on Sunday over his role in an...

A Baltimore County councilman did not disclose his outside employment over the past several years, including his work with a painting and drywall company that has a $3.1 million contract at a new high school being built in his district. Councilman...

Dedication to core values and commitment to excellence are two of the ideals highlighted in the National Association of Realtors’ Code of Ethics. The code, which sets Realtors apart from other licensed real estate agents, marks its 100th...

Mayor Rahm Emanuel is pushing lawmakers to pass a gambling bill that would allow the city to weigh its choice of a casino operator in secret and forbid state regulators from taking away its license. The legislation also would grant the mayor authority...

West Hartford resident Lawrence Vogel, a professor of philosophy at Connecticut College, has been honored with the college's highest award for faculty leadership. Vogel was awarded the 2013 Helen Brooks Regan Faculty Leadership Award at a May 10...

Editor's note: Reassessments are about restoring equity to property values that are no longer uniform. Property values change over time, and properties and neighborhoods don't all appreciate or depreciate at the same rate. So the tax burden, which is...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis lamented that investment losses by banks trigger more alarm in the economic crisis than the struggle of people to feed their families, as he led a huge rally Saturday to invigorate the church's moral conscience,...

One thing Ed Grimes hates about his current work schedule is trying to explain it to others. “It’s confusing,” he said. Since being laid off in 2009 after nearly four decades at Hagerstown’s Noland Company, the 61-year-old...

Yale goalie Eric Natale doesn't want his dream to become a nightmare. During most of his childhood days while playing for the Gamber recreation program in Westminster, he dreamed of playing in a NCAA Division I tournament game against one of the top...

A Westside activist who has previously complained to authorities about  former lawmaker Mike Feuer and his campaign for Los Angeles city attorney has filed additional documents with state and local government watchdog agencies accusing Feuer of more...

Thrusting an intelligent idealist into a leadership position is a time-honored method of chronicling the corruptive nature of power, particularly the political variety. (Please see "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington") In recent years, television writers have...

Judge Belvin Perry is in a rare class of jurists. He presided over a television sensation (that also happened to be a trial) and came out of it with even more respect and admiration than before Casey Anthony set foot in his courtroom. Nobody would say...