County Commissioners have snuffed out the sale, use and possession of all kinds of fireworks. However, a businessman with the fireworks industry says they did not get their fair chance to compromise.

(CNN) -- A judge's ruling Thursday makes another child waiting for a lung transplant in Philadelphia more quickly eligible for adult lungs.

(CNN) -- A Republican-led effort to discard President Barack Obama's rule allowing some young undocumented immigrants to defer deportation passed the U.S. House Thursday, a further indication of the challenges still facing pending comprehensive immigration reform legislation.

The U.S. National Security Agency may have compelled Verizon to give up many of its customers' call logs, but it is possible to make calls and avoid the government's watchful eyes -- in theory, anyway.

In a special meeting June 6, the New Mexico State University Board of Regents approved $1.2 million in emergency repairs to Jett Hall following a fire in the building earlier this year.

(CNN) -- If I'd met Mother Nature in 2012, I would have to assume at this point in 2013 that she is bipolar. Record high temperatures last March pushed us to planting time nearly a month ahead of an average start date. At the beginning of June 2012, we did not yet know that the rain wouldn't fall for another six weeks, and temperatures would hold steady in the triple digit zone.

(CNN) -- In a reversal of its past position, a majority of a 26-person Food and Drug Administration advisory panel voted to recommend looser restrictions on the controversial diabetes drug Avandia.