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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaks Oct. 10, 2012, during a town hall meeting at Ariel Corporation in Mt. Vernon, Ohio. (Associated Press)
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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaks Oct. 10, 2012, during a town hall meeting at Ariel Corporation in Mt. Vernon, Ohio. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** In this April 12, 2012, file photo, Las Vegas Sands Chairman and CEO Sheldon Adelson speaks at a news conference for the Sands Cotai Central in Macau. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)
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Word of appreciation are seen in a note from Washington Nationals General Manager and Executive Vice President of Baseball Operations Mike Rizzo to Washington D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray, on display in Mayor Gray's office at the John A. Wilson Building in Washington, D.C., Friday, Oct. 5, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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President Obama sits in the back of his limousine after arriving at San Francisco International Airport outside San Francisco on Monday, Oct. 8, 2012. The president was spending the night in San Francisco campaigning and fundraising. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
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** FILE ** Rep. Mike Rogers (left), Michigan Republican, who is House Intelligence Committee chairman, and Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger, Maryland Democrat, who is his party's ranking member on the panel, confer on Monday, Oct. 8, 2012, after releasing a report on an 11-month probe of China’s two leading technology firms, Huawei Technologies Ltd. and ZTE Corp. The report warns that the two telecommunications makers pose a major security threat to the U.S. (Associated Press)
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Richard Nixon's personalized golf balls and tees are part of a private collection of White House objects to be auctioned Friday. The starting bid for the golf balls and tees is $50. (Great Gatsby's Auction Gallery)
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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney campaigns Oct. 7, 2012, at Tradition Town Square in Port St. Lucie, Fla. (Associated Press)
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Angus King (right), a former independent Maine governor in a third-party bid for Senate, chats with James Sloan at Bath Iron Works shipyard Oct. 1. (Associated Press)
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Falcons tight end Tony Gonzalez (88) hauls in a second-quarter touchdown. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Gasoline prices higher than $5 per gallon are posted at a Menlo Park, Calif., Chevron station on Friday. In California, gasoline prices jumped overnight by as much as 20 cents a gallon, ending a week of soaring costs that saw some stations close. (Associated Press)
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In announcing the plant closing last week, Hallmark Senior Vice President Pete Burney admits that “competition in our industry is indeed formidable.” The closing will eliminate 300 jobs. (Associated Press)
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“Natural gas exploitation could be a very strong incentive for reunification of the island,” said Cyprus’ Foreign Minister Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis. (Associated Press)