After a minor but highly unusual earthquake shook East Tennessee in December, USA TODAY editors wondered whether the Big One could hit the East Coast. The answer: A major fault line sits right beside the Mississippi River, and scientists have evidence that the area has felt major earthquakes for at …
As I looked for stories to share on a slow New Year’s Eve, I came across a long but intriguing piece from one of the USA TODAY Network’s smaller sites, the Kitsap (County) Sun in Bremerton, Washington. State troopers had jailed a woman who lived on the east side of …
Ten days after Virginia’s governor left office in January 2014, he and his wife were indicted on 14 counts of corruption, accepting bribes and obstructing an investigation. At one time, former Gov. Robert “Bob” McDonnell was considered a Republican rising star and was Mitt Romney’s potential running mate in the …
