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Judy Helms considers herself a South Carolinian. For years, the state of South Carolina agreed. But a new survey of the North Carolina-South Carolina border, taking advantage of the latest mapping technology, may soon turn Ms. Helms into a Tarheel.

"I felt like I was stepped on," she said, recalling ...

The Vatican has taken the unusual step of overruling the closing of 13 parishes by the Cleveland Diocese, a rare case of Rome reversing a U.S. bishop on the shutdown of churches, a lawyer who fought the cutbacks said Wednesday.

The office known as the Congregation for the Clergy ruled ...

BOSTON — Scientists are reporting what could be very bad news for efforts to customize cancer treatment based on each person's genes.

They have discovered big differences from place to place in the same tumor as to which genes are active or mutated. They also found differences in the ...

CALIFORNIA

Racial tensions erupt into high school brawl

CARSON | Dozens of students battled one another at a high school Wednesday in a racially motivated brawl between black and Hispanic students that left two injured and three under arrest, authorities said.

At least 30 students traded punches and kicks in ...

Police say autopsy reports indicate a pair of 73-year-old identical twin sisters who were found dead in their California home died long before they were found....

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- An Oregon nursing assistant spent eight days in jail after a jury found her guilty of taking disturbing photos of elderly or disabled patients and posting them to her Facebook wall....

SEATTLE (AP) -- A plot of grass sits in the middle of Seattle, feet from a busy road and on a hill that overlooks the city's skyline. But it's no ordinary patch of green. Residents hope it will become one of the country's largest "food forests."...

SAN FRANCISCO — Apple gave the new iPad a bunch of new features but no new name.

When it goes on sale next week in the U.S. and several other countries, the hugely anticipated next generation of the device will be "the iPad" or perhaps "the new iPad" - ...

CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. (AP) -- A Virginia Tech official defends the delay in alerting students to the shootings of two students to begin the unprecedented 2007 massacre, saying officials did the best they could....

PHOENIX (AP) -- Herding sheep has been part of Carey Dobson's family tradition spanning four generations, even before Arizona was granted statehood by the federal government in 1912, but all that changed earlier this year....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Earth's magnetic field is about to be shaken like a snow globe by the largest solar storm in five years....

CLEVELAND (AP) -- The Vatican has taken the extraordinary step of overruling the closing of 13 parishes by the Cleveland Diocese, a lawyer who fought the cutbacks said Wednesday....

TULSA, Okla. (AP) -- A sheriff's deputy and two other people were wounded after an exchange of gunfire Wednesday afternoon outside a courthouse plaza in Tulsa, police said....

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- Virginia's governor has signed into law a bill requiring women to undergo abdominal ultrasound exams before having abortions, weeks after lawmakers dropped contentious language requiring that the exams be medically invasive....

SAN DIEGO (AP) -- A man arrested after a homemade cannon blasted through his mobile home, killing his girlfriend, "liked to live life on the edge," his brother told a San Diego newspaper....

SAN DIEGO (AP) -- A man arrested after a homemade cannon blasted through his mobile home, killing his girlfriend, "liked to live life on the edge," his brother told a San Diego newspaper....

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- The New York Police Department's surveillance of Muslims has damaged the public's trust in New Jersey law enforcement and jeopardized some of the relationships agents had sought to build in the community since Sept. 11, the head of the FBI in New Jersey said Wednesday....

Status Quo Has To Go, 3-8-12

WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. military commanders said Wednesday there are no plans to turn the Afghan war over to CIA control after 2014, with special operations answering to American intelligence officials....

DENVER (AP) -- A man who died in prison in 1996 after being convicted of murdering three women also killed four others between 1979 and 1988 and might be responsible for as many as 20 homicides, authorities said....