Stephen J. Hedges

Once the province of tater tots, reheated burgers and chocolate milk, school lunches are increasingly featuring local produce and healthy foods as administrators battle rising food prices and expanding student...

Grain elevators are an easily overlooked feature of the rural American landscape. But their role in the marketplace remains an essential one, and it is changing. Jay Johnson of Waverly...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called Tuesday for the ouster of the Bush administration's top consumer products regulator, as Democrats seized on an unusual number of high-profile toy recalls this year...

While tragic in its proportion and suddenness, the collapse of a 40-year-old interstate highway bridge in Minneapolis wasn't a surprise to those who work in the engineering and public works...

While tragic in its proportion and suddenness, the collapse of a 40-year-old interstate highway bridge in Minneapolis wasn't a surprise to those who work in the engineering and public works...

The tainted pet food scare, which has swelled into a serious crisis for animal lovers, now has spread to humans. California officials have revealed that the contamination got into the...

Investigators have identified the leader of an alleged terrorist cell broken up by police here 10 days ago and have traced his contacts to Pakistan, where U.S., British and Pakistani...

In what may be the Pentagon's most pessimistic assessment of the war in Iraq to date, two top generals told a Senate panel Thursday that the country could descend into...

When The Rendon Group was hired to help Afghan President Hamid Karzai with media relations in early 2004, few thought it was a bad idea. Though Rendon's $1.4million bill seemed...

Expressing growing unease over the war in Iraq, a newly emboldened Senate voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to instruct the Bush administration to explain its strategy for completing the U.S. mission in...