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HOUSTON (AP) — Five coastal states are determined to clean up the damaged Gulf of Mexico ecosystem after last year's oil spill highlighted how decades...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — An early fall storm stranded big rigs in the Sierra Nevada and snarled roadways throughout California on Wednesday while unl...

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Sometime after midnight on a moonlit rural Oregon highway, a state trooper checking a car he had just pulled over found pot on a p...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In agreeing to an emergency spending bill to avoid a government shutdown, Congress achieved the bare minimum while finessing a fight...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — A former biology professor accused of killing three colleagues and wounding three others during a faculty meeting at the Unive...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A federal appeals panel took nine-time Olympic gold medalist Carl Lewis off a New Jersey state Senate ballot Thursday, finding he ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Police Department put American citizens under surveillance and scrutinized where they ate, prayed and worked, not because...

HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. (AP) — The software testers at Aspiritech are a collection of characters. Katie Levin talks nonstop. Brian Tozzo hates driving. Ja...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo, who is now a Yale University professor, has been sued in Connecticut for alleged crim...

ATLANTA (AP) — With less than half a day left to live, Troy Davis' supporters in the U.S. and Europe were trying just about anything Wednesday to win ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The assistant attorney general tasked with defending the state's decision to kick nine-time Olympic gold medalist Carl Lewis off t...

HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina judge plans a hearing on whether a former John Edwards aide who wrote about the two-time presidential candi...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Surveillance cameras in public places? Sure. Body scans at airports? Maybe. Snooping in personal email? Not so fast. The same Americ...

BASTROP, Texas (AP) — Firefighters trying to control a wind-fueled wildfire that has destroyed nearly 500 homes in Central Texas were looking for a fe...

BUXTON, N.C. (AP) — Thousands were fleeing an exposed strip of coastal villages and beaches off North Carolina on Thursday as Irene approached, threat...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Fire-stoking winds and lightning were forecast Thursday across much of the Northern Rockies as crews rushed to bolster protecti...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush offered that state's incoming governor a long list of "lessons learned through trial and error" ...

SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) — A northeastern Pennsylvania judge was ordered Thursday to spend nearly three decades in prison for his role in a massive bribery ...