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HOUSTON (AP) -- If federal prosecutors have their way, former jet-setting Texas tycoon R. Allen Stanford could receive a prison sentence that spans two centuries for bilking investors out of more than $7 billion over two decades in one of the largest Ponzi schemes in U.S. history....

HOUSTON (AP) -- If federal prosecutors have their way, former jet-setting Texas tycoon R. Allen Stanford could receive a prison sentence that spans two centuries for bilking investors out of more than $7 billion over two decades in one of the largest Ponzi schemes in U.S. history....

STANDING ROCK INDIAN RESERVATION, N.D. (AP) -- As North Dakota residents resoundingly decided to scrap their flagship university's Fighting Sioux nickname, the response was far murkier in Sioux County - home to a tribe that had gone decades without staking a clear position on the divisive question....

STANDING ROCK INDIAN RESERVATION, N.D. (AP) -- As North Dakota residents resoundingly decided to scrap their flagship university's Fighting Sioux nickname, the response was far murkier in Sioux County - home to a tribe that had gone decades without staking a clear position on the divisive question....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A parole hearing for former Charles Manson follower Bruce Davis was postponed at the last minute Wednesday after the inmate reported he was feeling ill....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- It will be Sarah Jessica Parker's house, but President Barack Obama's show. You could call it "Checks and the City."...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- It will be Sarah Jessica Parker's house, but President Barack Obama's show. You could call it "Checks and the City."...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- It will be Sarah Jessica Parker's house, but President Barack Obama's show. You could call it "Checks and the City."...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- They live on your skin, up your nose, in your gut - enough bacteria, fungi and other microbes that collected together could weigh, amazingly, a few pounds....

McGREGOR, Texas (AP) -- Marred by just a few scorch marks from its re-entry to the Earth's atmosphere, the world's first commercial supply spacecraft to visit the International Space Station weathered its maiden voyage well, NASA and SpaceX officials said Wednesday....

McGREGOR, Texas (AP) -- Marred by just a few scorch marks from its re-entry to the Earth's atmosphere, the world's first commercial supply spacecraft to visit the International Space Station weathered its maiden voyage well, NASA and SpaceX officials said Wednesday....

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) -- Police were searching for a trauma surgeon Wednesday as a "person of interest" in a fatal shooting at a Buffalo hospital, and warned the public that the former Army Special Forces weapons expert may be armed and dangerous....

HOUSTON (AP) -- A retired Houston-area firefighter was convicted of murder Wednesday for gunning down his unarmed neighbor during a dispute over a noisy house party, with jurors rejecting his argument that he was within his rights under Texas' version of a stand-your-ground law....

Amid a firestorm of criticism over a pair of new studies on gay parenting, the world's largest organization of psychologists has affirmed its own position that sexual orientation is not a factor in parental fitness.

The American Psychological Association (APA) said this week that it and other prominent health and ...

Human trafficking is modern-day slavery whose victims include young women coming to the U.S. in search of a new life, children who grew up here but fall into a life of desperation and migrant workers robbed of the means to ensure their independence, a top Justice Department official said Wednesday.

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New York is poised to become the latest state to cash in on the nation's natural gas boom.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, reportedly will lift a moratorium on fracking this summer, allowing the popular yet controversial gas-extraction technique to be used in the southern part of the state near ...

BELLEFONTE, Pa. — One, a foster child, said he was threatened, warned he would never see his family again if he ever told anyone what happened. Another said he stayed quiet because he didn't want to stop getting tickets to the hottest game in town - Penn State football.

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The heated war over fracking is returning to the silver screen.

Natural-gas industry groups Wednesday released their documentary film "Truthland," billed as a factual response to the popular but controversial "Gasland," an Oscar-nominated film beloved by environmental activists for its highly critical portrayal of fracking and its effect on small ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- A combination of decades of vigorous fire suppression and the waning of the timber industry over environmental concerns has left many forests a tangled, overgrown mess, subject to the kind of super-fires that are now regularly consuming hundreds of homes and millions of acres....

BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) -- One, a foster child, said he was threatened, warned he would never see his family again if he ever told anyone what happened. Another said he stayed quiet because he didn't want to stop getting tickets to the hottest game in town - Penn State football....