Updated: Thu, May 16, 2013

WASHINGTON (AP) — To the U.S. technology industry, there's a dramatic shortfall in the number of Americans skilled in computer programming and engineering that is hampering business. To unions and some Democrats, it's more sinister: The push by Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg to expand the number...

Updated: Thu, May 16, 2013

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — Mount Rushmore National Memorial may be the most famous landmark in the Black Hills of South Dakota, but it's not the only one. Covering approximately 8,000 miles (nearly 13,000 kilometers), the Black Hills are a small, isolated mountain range with a big Native...

Updated: Thu, May 16, 2013

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Flights in Greece were halted for four hours Thursday as the country's two largest labor unions staged work stoppages to protest austerity measures and a government decision to cancel a teachers' strike. Flights resumed after being grounded between 12:00 and 4:00 p.m....

Updated: Thu, May 16, 2013

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — U.S. Sen. John Thune says the National Park Service has reversed a decision to close a campground at Wind Cave National Park in southwestern South Dakota. Officials announced in March that they were closing the Elk Mountain Campground due to automatic federal spending...

Updated: Thu, May 16, 2013

MIAMI (AP) — There's finally a crack in the dam blocking the natural flow of water into Everglades National Park. The Tamiami Trail that traverses South Florida's wetlands has kept water from flowing into the park for more than 80 years. On Wednesday, a backhoe broke through a 1-mile stretch...

Updated: Thu, May 16, 2013

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Environmental groups say the federal government should order two coal-fired power plants in western North Dakota to use more sophisticated pollution-control technology, but state officials say the matter already has been settled and no more debate is needed. The federal...

Updated: Thu, May 16, 2013

EDISTO ISLAND, S.C. (AP) — As a cool sea breeze wafted across a 17th century South Carolina plantation that once grew prized sea island cotton, workers this week carefully disassembled, measured and numbered wooden planks from a dilapidated antebellum slave cabin. Once one of about two dozen...

Updated: Thu, May 16, 2013

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Six Illinois historic sites are operating seven days a week for the convenience of tourists traveling in the spring and summer. Cahokia Mounds in Collinsville will be open seven days a week through October. Lewis and Clark in Hartford, the Lincoln-Herndon Law Office...

Updated: Thu, May 16, 2013

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Smithsonian Institution is announcing plans for what curators believe is the first exhibition about the visual history of yoga. When it opens in October, "Yoga: The Art of Transformation" will feature temple structures, devotional icons and manuscripts as well as early...

Updated: Thu, May 16, 2013

DOSWELL, Va. (AP) — A sure sign of summer: Kings Dominion is hiring by the hundreds. The Doswell amusement park says it is amid a "hiring blitz" of about 400 seasonal employees ahead of the park's opening on May 24. The hiring is expected to continue right up to Memorial Day weekend. Kings...