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HANOVER, N.H. — Things have only gotten messier at Dartmouth College in the weeks since a former fraternity brother went public with hazing allegations involving swimming in and swallowing vomit.

Senior Andrew Lohse brought the issue to the forefront in January, when he wrote a column in the school newspaper ...

DYERSVILLE, Iowa — Should we build it, and would they come?

Those are the questions being debated in the Iowa town where "Field of Dreams" was filmed as it considers a $38 million proposal to turn the farmland around the famous cornfield diamond into one of the nation's largest youth ...

Lawmakers in California's Assembly will hit the campaign trail this year, touting their votes on all manner of bills. But what they say may not reflect the stand they took when the bill was being debated.

That's because California is one of at least 10 states in which some lawmakers ...

NEW YORK — Most voters in New York City have no problem with the way the police department has treated Muslims, a poll showed Tuesday, despite weeks of criticism leveled against the NYPD's counterterrorism program by Muslim activists and out-of-state politicians.

A series of articles by the Associated Press has ...

SAN FRANCISCO — The San Francisco sheriff has a political thicket to get through now that he's putting his legal woes behind him with a plea bargain in a domestic-violence case that made international headlines.

Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi pleaded guilty Monday to a misdemeanor charge of false imprisonment in exchange ...

GETTYSBURG, Pa. — Bobblehead dolls of the man who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln have been pulled from sale in Gettysburg National Military Park's visitors' center.

Dolls of John Wilkes Booth with a handgun were taken off bookstore shelves Saturday, a day after a reporter from Hanover's The Evening Sun ...

Update: Santorum and Romney split four contests. Santorum wins contests in Alabama and Mississippi, while Romney wins Hawaii and American Samoa. Romney actually increases the delegate spread, however, by more decisive wins in his contests. Newt actually had somewhat of a comeback and actually posted his best results in quite some time.

Mississippi, Alabama, and Hawaii vote today in the 2012 Republican primary as they aim to be the choice to take on Obama in Novemeber. They become the 24th, 25th, and 26th states to cast ballots, thus marking a bit of a midway point in the contest. Here is what to expect and what is at stake for each of the candidates:

Mitt Romney Romney remains the front runner and is far ahead of his opponents in delegates won, vote percentage gained, and states carried. He is expected to win Hawaii, but was not expected to do well in the southern contests until polls earlier in the week showed Romney either tied or ahead in both states. His continued goal is to rack up delegates in states he is not supposed to do well in while dominating in states he is supposed to win. So far it has added up to a winning strategy. Rick Santorum Santorum seems resigned to the likelihood that he can't win enough delegates outright to topple Romney and seems content with a "take it to the convention" strategy. In order to get to a contested convention, he and Newt need to slow down Romney's accumulation of delegates in states like Alabama and Mississippi. Santorum is also trying to break out of his regional candidate status and score solid wins outside of his comfort zone. Newt Gingrich Newt is the other candidate who wants to see this race go into a contested convention, but he wants to be the alternative to Romney in such a scenario. Alabama and Mississippi become essential to his resurgence strategy as he is the "southerner" of the race. Two wins tonight would bring his win total to four, not an impressive haul but good enough to carry him through a handful of upcoming favorable states including Louisiana.

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Newt Shoots for Southern Comeback: Results In originally appeared on About.com Conservative Politics: U.S. on Tuesday, March 13th, 2012 at 18:34:40.

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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The judge in former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky's child sexual abuse case said Tuesday that a defense request for more information regarding when and where the alleged crimes occurred is moot because prosecutors have said they cannot produce additional detail.

Judge John Cleland ...

MONT VERNON, N.H. — Residents of a rural New Hampshire town will have a chance to vote Tuesday night on whether to rename a fishing and skating spot that's been called Jew Pond since the 1920s.

Mont Vernon town health officer Rich Masters pushed for the vote after the name appeared ...

CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. (AP) — The state rested Tuesday after witnesses in a wrongful-death lawsuit testified that Virginia Tech officials acted properly on April 16, 2007, when a lone gunman killed 32 on the Blacksburg campus and then himself.

Attorneys for the state, the lone defendant in the civil trial, presented ...

WASHINGTON — The number of U.S. jobs openings fell in January from a three and a half year high. The modest decline suggests hiring could continue at its healthy pace but may not accelerate.

The Labor Department says employers posted 3.46 million job openings in January. That's down from 3.54 ...

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — A former Rutgers University student accused of using a webcam to spy on his roommate's intimate encounter with another man said Tuesday that his client is a kid, not a criminal, his lawyer said Tuesday in closing arguments.

Defense attorney Steven Altman said Dharun Ravi was ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin prosecutors are expected to play a video in court Tuesday that shows an emaciated 15-year-old girl telling police her father and stepmother kept her in a basement for years and starved her, leaving her to fend for herself off scraps she found on the floor ...

DALLAS — Southwest Airlines doesn't expect to earn a profit in the first quarter because of higher fuel costs.

Chief Financial Officer Laura Wright said Tuesday that jet fuel prices have been higher than the airline expected — about $3.50 per gallon instead of the $3.35 it had been forecasting.