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PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Public health advocates and doctors on the front lines of Pennsylvania's natural gas-drilling boom are attacking the state's new Marcellus Shale law, likening one of its provisions to a gag order and complaining that vital research money into health effects was stripped at the last minute....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican Rep. Allen West said he believes 75-plus House Democrats are members of the Communist Party, a claim that echoed Joe McCarthy's unsubstantiated 1950s charges that communists had infiltrated the top ranks of the U.S. government....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican Rep. Allen West said he believes 75-plus House Democrats are members of the Communist Party, a claim that echoed Joe McCarthy's unsubstantiated 1950s charges that communists had infiltrated the top ranks of the U.S. government....

FORREST CITY, Ark. (AP) -- DNA links an Indiana inmate to the rape and killing of a 19-year-old mother who was strangled in eastern Arkansas more than a decade ago, police said Wednesday....

SANFORD, Fla. (AP) -- The fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a neighborhood watch volunteer led to nationwide protests calling for the shooter's arrest. Trayvon Martin's parents, civil rights leaders and other people are portraying the case as racially charged, saying the shooter, George Zimmerman, would have been arrested had he been black and the victim white....

CORCORAN, Calif. (AP) -- A prison panel denied parole Wednesday to mass murderer Charles Manson in his 12th and probably final bid for freedom....

CORCORAN, Calif. (AP) -- A prison panel denied parole Wednesday to mass murderer Charles Manson in his 12th and probably final bid for freedom....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama will face fresh pressure on Cuba and drug legalization when he visits Latin America later this week....

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Eight Planned Parenthood organizations sued Texas on Wednesday for excluding them from participating in a program that provides contraception and check-ups to women, saying the new rule violates their constitutional rights to freedom of speech and association....

CORCORAN, Calif. (AP) -- A California prison panel denied parole Wednesday to mass murderer Charles Manson in his 12th and possibly final bid for freedom....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Trayvon Martin's parents renewed their calls for calm as a special prosecutor in Florida neared a decision on whether to charge neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman in Martin's death....

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Unions are facing a make-or-break moment in their campaign to drive Wisconsin's Republican governor from office....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Justice Department and 15 states sued Apple Inc. and major book publishers Wednesday, alleging a conspiracy to raise the price of electronic books they said cost consumers more than $100 million in the past two years by adding $2 to $5 to the price of each e-book....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- After an entire century that included two high-profile government investigations and countless books and movies, we're still debating what really caused the Titanic to hit an iceberg and sink on that crystal-clear chilly night....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Want to calculate how much you could owe in student loans after graduating from a particular college? A new government website provides tools to help with the math....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Top officials of the General Services Administration told employees Wednesday they have a duty to report government waste such as the $823,000 spent by the agency on a 2010 conference at a Las Vegas resort....

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- An Arkansas judge on Wednesday fined Johnson & Johnson and a subsidiary more than $1.1 billion after a jury found that the companies downplayed and hid risks associated with taking the antipsychotic drug Risperdal....

CORCORAN, Calif. (AP) -- Debra Tate hopes that Wednesday is the last time she has to walk into a prison and argue to parole officials that Charles Manson should not be freed....