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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – After two months of delay, shuttle Atlantis blasted into orbit Thursday with Europe’s gift to the international space station, a $2 billion science lab named Columbus that spent years waiting to set sail. Atlantis and its seven-man crew safely roared away from their seaside launch pad …

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Gov. Joe Manchin and others took offense Tuesday to a planned scene from an upcoming film starring Julianne Moore that they say stereotypes West Virginians as inbreeds and carnival sideshows. The horror thriller “Shelter” is recruiting extras with unusual physical features for a scene in a “West …

An Ohio mayor had a stern order for a company of Marine Corps Reservists: Get out. The Toledo Blade reports that Toledo Mayor Carty Finkbeiner ordered the Marines out Friday as their buses were arriving for a three-day training mission in the city, where they have periodically trained since 2004. …