At some point during my first pregnancy 12 years ago, I was swept up by the idea that I needed to be the world’s perfect mother. I left a demanding job that I loved to take 14 months of maternity leave for two kids, and then spent the next decade working part-time or not at all.

Of all the economic adversity resulting from the recession, declining or stagnating wages are the problem hampering the largest number of American voters, according to a public opinion poll released Thursday by the labor federation Change to Win. Â The poll results were first reported by the blog Daily Kos. Â

Hello Las Vegas, San Diego and two cities near Denver. That was the sentiment from Nevada football fans discussing the team's move to the Mountain West Conference before the Wolf Pack's season opener against Eastern Washington, a matchup the Pack won 49-24 on Thursday night.

Randy Knapp was a teenager when he spent 13 nights trapped in a whiteout on Oregon’s Mount Hood. Thirty-three years later, he’s still climbing. Jonathan Metz tried to saw off his arm this summer after it got stuck in his furnace.

LITTLE ROCK — A recent spate of editorials in the national press knocking U.S. Sen. Blanche Lincoln’s efforts to secure $1.5 billion in disaster aid for farmers shows how the East Coast media misunderstands the importance of agriculture, Lincoln said Monday.