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WASHINGTON (AP) — They've long been known as devil dogs, leathernecks and "the first to fight." But U.S. Marines, with their self-described expertise in "killing people and breaking things," now want to promote their kinder side as well.

A new Marine Corps advertising campaign starting this weekend takes its cue ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States should customize emergency plans for each of the nation's 65 nuclear power plants, a change that in some cases could expand the standard 10-mile evacuation zone in place for more than three decades, an expert panel is recommending.

That's one of the lessons to ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly two years after President Obama signed landmark legislation to cover the uninsured, a new poll finds his health care overhaul is neither better liked nor better understood.

But as the Supreme Court prepares to hear arguments on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, an AP-GfK ...

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) — Prosecutors rested their case Thursday in the trial of a former Rutgers University student, setting the stage for lawyers to begin their defense of the young man accused of using a webcam to spy on his roommate's intimate encounter with another man.

Lawyers for defendant ...

LINCOLN PARK, Mich. (AP) — A Detroit-area woman who won a $1 million lottery prize but continued to get food stamps has been removed from the food assistance program, officials say.

The Michigan Department of Human Services said Wednesday the lottery winner no longer was getting benefits. It followed a ...

SPLENDORA, Texas — Two children who were found living in a stench-filled abandoned school bus near Houston, its windows blocked and the lot around it covered in trash, are in the custody of Texas child welfare workers, officials said Thursday.

A postal worker discovered the children, ages 11 and 5, ...

WASHINGTON — Air fares are likely to stay high throughout this decade, as passenger travel grows but airline capacity shrinks, according to a government forecast issued Thursday.

In its annual economic analysis, the Federal Aviation Administration said travelers won't get much relief until airlines start getting more competition, which is ...

RICHMOND, Va. — More work needs to be done to keep young Americans from using tobacco, including creating smoking bans and increasing taxes on tobacco products, the U.S. Surgeon General's office said in a report released Thursday.

Almost one in five high school-aged teens smokes, down from earlier decades, but ...

Some of the most widely used prescription drugs, including those to treat cholesterol and high blood pressure, could be freely available over the counter under a new proposal being weighed by government regulators.

Food and Drug Administration officials said Wednesday they are considering waiving prescription requirements for certain drugs used ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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" - ...

DENVER — 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.

Vincent Groves, a tall hulking athlete who played on a high school championship ...

OXNARD, Calif. — A junior high school teacher was placed on leave as a school district investigates whether she was moonlighting as a porn star, officials said.

Meanwhile, students at the Southern California campus were asked not to search Internet sex sites for images of the teacher, the district ...

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) — With the story of alleged invasion of privacy and bias intimidation already told, prosecutors have turned to trying to show jurors that a former Rutgers University student accused of using a webcam to spy on his roommate's intimate encounter with another man tried to cover ...

NEWARK, N.J. — The head of the FBI in New Jersey said Wednesday that some of the covert operations by the New York Police Department's intelligence division have damaged the public's trust in New Jersey law enforcement.

The Special Agent in Charge of the FBI's Newark Division, Michael Ward, emphasized, ...

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

After hurtling through space for a day and a half, a massive cloud of charged particles is due to arrive early Thursday and could disrupt utility grids, airline ...

CLOVIS, N.M. — Unofficial results show that a former New Mexico mayor who called President Obama "the carnal manifestation of evil" and said Mr. Obama's election was part of a CIA conspiracy has been elected to his former job.

The Clovis News Journal reports that former Clovis mayor David Lansford ...