Almost one-quarter of men are married to women whose income tops theirs — more than five times the percentage from four decades ago, according to a research group report released Tuesday.

Air traffic controllers plan to ground flights at Ireland’s three major airports for at least four hours Wednesday to push for pay raises and keep their free pension plans.

HOLLY SPRING, N.C.—-OFM, a leading family-owned office and school furniture manufacturer, distributor and wholesaler, announced today its own “stimulus plan”—a new product line of low-priced, high-quality faux leather office chairs called the Stimulus Series named for the efforts to restart the U.S. economy.

Gov. Bob McDonnell bluntly ruled out tax increases as a solution for Virginia’s $4 billion budget shortfall, promising to target them for vetoes.

Members of the budget-writing House Appropriations Committee demanded better cost information and more candor from Virginia’s troubled computer superagency.

Nearly 2 million tourists visited Lebanon in 2009, a record that exceeds even the glamorous years before the civil war when Beirut was known as the Paris of the Middle East.

As 400 Tea Party activists rallied outside the Idaho Capitol on Monday to shout down federal government, more than a dozen lawmakers have quietly formed a smaller but equally conservative new group inside the building to pursue similar goals: promote gun rights, kill health care reform, maybe even abolish the Federal Reserve.

U.S. stocks rose on Tuesday as investors bet that a Senate race in Massachusetts could put President Obama’s reform plans, especially those on healthcare, in jeopardy.

Investors moved back into stocks on hopes that a special election in Massachusetts will take away power from Senate Democrats and make it harder for President Barack Obama to make changes to health care.

Shares of Paetec Holding Corp. tumbled Tuesday after Kaufman Bros. downgraded the stock, saying sluggish growth and the cost of its debt will hurt cash flow.