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NEW YORK (AP) -- Hoax emergency calls like the one about a yacht explosion off New Jersey cost U.S. taxpayers millions of dollars a year - yet authorities who police the nation's coastlines acknowledge there's little they can do to prevent them....

ATLANTA (AP) -- The Georgia Department of Transportation has declined to accept a Ku Klux Klan group's application to join the state's "Adopt-A-Highway" program....

When those college tuition bills come in, be prepared for sticker shock....

When those college tuition bills come in, be prepared for sticker shock....

When those college tuition bills come in, be prepared for sticker shock....

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- Federal agents raided a sprawling ranch in Oklahoma and a prominent quarter horse track in New Mexico on Tuesday, alleging the brother of a high-ranking official in a Mexican drug cartel used a horse-breeding operation to launder money....

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Authorities say the wife of Trayvon Martin's shooter is being accused of lying to a judge about their finances during a bond hearing and faces one count of perjury....

BOSTON (AP) -- The longtime girlfriend of mobster James "Whitey" Bulger was sentenced Tuesday to eight years in prison for helping one of the FBI's most-wanted men stay on the run for 16 years, a life her lawyer said she doesn't regret because she still loves Bulger....

BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) -- A former Penn State assistant coach whose account led to Joe Paterno's downfall testified Tuesday that he heard a "skin-on-skin smacking sound" in a campus locker room one night in 2001 and saw something that was "more than my brain could handle."...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Anticipating the death of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, Mitt Romney outlined his plans Tuesday to expand coverage to the nation's uninsured, while protecting at least one popular safeguard that would be eliminated should the Supreme Court strike down the law....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Attorney General Eric Holder on Tuesday fended off Republican demands that he appoint a special counsel outside of the Justice Department to look into national security leaks....

MIAMI (AP) -- A homeless man whose face was mostly chewed off in a bizarre attack alongside a busy South Florida highway is in good spirits, talking and walking with the help of hospital staff, doctors said Tuesday....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- If only the economy were growing as fast....

FORT STEWART, Ga. (AP) -- A Georgia soldier was found guilty Tuesday of killing his two Army roommates in 2010 at a U.S. base camp in Iraq, where prosecutors said he opened fire hours after complaining that the victims had let their room get too messy....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Michelle Obama gets a rare thumbs-up from her adolescent daughters for publishing her first gardening book....

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker can't avoid union troubles, even when he's trying to be bipartisan....

When those college tuition bills come in, be prepared for sticker shock....

BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) -- Penn State assistant football coach Mike McQueary has told jurors at Jerry Sandusky's sex abuse trial about seeing the former coach with a boy in a campus shower....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Michelle Obama gets a rare thumbs up from her adolescent daughters for publishing her first gardening book....

BOSTON (AP) -- The longtime girlfriend of Boston mobster James "Whitey" Bulger was sentenced Tuesday to eight years in prison for helping him stay on the run for 16 years....