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COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) -- The gap between federal support for agricultural research at large public universities and private investment continues to grow - and the divide comes with increased threats to academic freedom and more instances of meddling in the lab, a new research report suggests....

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) -- The gap between federal support for agricultural research at large public universities and private investment continues to grow - and the divide comes with increased threats to academic freedom and more instances of meddling in the lab, a new research report suggests....

BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) -- Jerry Sandusky's trial in the Penn State scandal opened in graphic fashion Monday with the first witness testifying that the retired coach molested him in the locker-room showers and in hotels while trying to ensure his silence with gifts and trips to bowl games....

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta arrived in Afghanistan on Thursday to take stock of progress in the war and discuss plans for the troop drawdown, even as violence spiked in the south....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Pulitzer Prize winner is the nation's first poet laureate to hail from the South since the initial one - Robert Penn Warren - was named by the Library of Congress in 1986....

A nearly 70-foot-long dock that floated ashore on an Oregon beach was torn loose from a fishing port in northern Japan by last year's tsunami and drifted across thousands of miles of Pacific Ocean, a Japanese Consulate official said Wednesday....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Big Tobacco's success in branding a proposed California cigarette tax as a government boondoggle sent a message that could echo in other states as votes trended toward the opposition....

RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. (AP) -- An Arkansas teen pleaded guilty Wednesday to murdering his sleeping sister and was sentenced to 45 years in prison for a crime he still hasn't fully explained....

RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. (AP) -- An Arkansas teen pleaded guilty Wednesday to murdering his sleeping sister and was sentenced to 45 years in prison for a crime he still hasn't fully explained....

RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. (AP) -- An Arkansas teen pleaded guilty Wednesday to murdering his sleeping sister and was sentenced to 45 years in prison for a crime he still hasn't fully explained....

RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. (AP) -- An Arkansas teen pleaded guilty Wednesday to murdering his sleeping sister and was sentenced to 45 years in prison for a crime he still hasn't fully explained....

RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. (AP) -- An Arkansas teen pleaded guilty Wednesday to murdering his sleeping sister and was sentenced to 45 years in prison for a crime he still hasn't fully explained....

RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. (AP) -- An Arkansas teen pleaded guilty Wednesday to murdering his sleeping sister and was sentenced to 45 years in prison for a crime he still hasn't fully explained....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Pulitzer Prize winner is the nation's first poet laureate to hail from the South since the initial one - Robert Penn Warren - was named by the Library of Congress in 1986....

BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) -- A jury dominated by people with Penn State loyalties was selected Wednesday to decide Jerry Sandusky's fate in the child sexual abuse scandal that rocked the university and led to football coach Joe Paterno's downfall....

BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) -- A jury dominated by people with Penn State loyalties was selected Wednesday to decide Jerry Sandusky's fate in the child sexual abuse scandal that rocked the university and led to football coach Joe Paterno's downfall....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- One of the Obama administration's go-to civil rights groups in its efforts to build relationships with American Muslims is suing the New York Police Department over its surveillance programs, some of which were paid for with federal money....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- One of the Obama administration's go-to civil rights groups in its efforts to build relationships with American Muslims is suing the New York Police Department over its surveillance programs, some of which were paid for with federal money....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- One of the Obama administration's go-to civil rights groups in its efforts to build relationships with American Muslims is suing the New York Police Department over its surveillance programs, some of which were paid for with federal money....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- One of the Obama administration's go-to civil rights groups in its efforts to build relationships with American Muslims is suing the New York Police Department over its surveillance programs, some of which were paid for with federal money....