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The heated war over fracking is returning to the silver screen.

Natural-gas industry groups Wednesday released their documentary film "Truthland," billed as a factual response to the popular but controversial "Gasland," an Oscar-nominated film beloved by environmental activists for its highly critical portrayal of fracking and its effect on small ...

For the first time, doctors have successfully transplanted a vein grown with a patient's own stem cells, another example of scientists producing human body parts in the lab.

In this case, the patient was a 10-year-old girl in Sweden who was suffering from a severe vein blockage to her liver. ...

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FORT STEWART — A soldier was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison without parole for the 2010 slayings of two Army roommates, both shot at a U.S. base camp in Iraq hours after the suspect complained their room was too messy.

A military jury at Fort Stewart spent just ...

LOS ANGELES — NASA on Wednesday launched its newest X-ray space telescope on a mission to shine a light on black holes and other hard-to-see objects lurking in the Milky Way and other galaxies.

Mission controllers clapped after receiving a signal from the telescope that it had reached orbit 350 ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — NASA on Wednesday launched its newest X-ray space telescope on a mission to shine a light on black holes and other hard-to-see objects lurking in the Milky Way and other galaxies.

Mission controllers clapped after receiving a signal from the telescope that it had reached orbit ...

LOVELAND, Colo. — Smoke from a massive wildfire in northern Colorado was blowing into southeast Wyoming and smudging the skies above Cheyenne on Wednesday.

Overnight winds from the southwest blew smoke into Wyoming, leaving a pungent odor in the air around the state's capital city, which is 50 miles north ...

BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) — Jerry Sandusky pinned down a foster child and performed oral sex on him, threatened to keep him from seeing his family if he reported what happened, and then later told him he loved him, the accuser testified Wednesday.

The man, now 25 and called Victim 10 ...

GARDEN CITY, N.Y. (AP) — Ten passengers filed a lawsuit Wednesday against JetBlue Airways, claiming they feared for their lives when a pilot had to be physically restrained after running through the cabin yelling about Jesus and al Qaeda during a New York-to-Las Vegas flight in March.

The lawsuit, filed ...

MASON, Mich. (AP) — A lawsuit that threatened a delicate financial deal between debt-ridden Detroit and the state of Michigan was thrown out Wednesday after a lawyer for Mayor Dave Bing intervened and said the city's top attorney had no authority to challenge the agreement.

The decision by an Ingham ...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A gunman who held a pharmacy owner hostage at his store in rural western Nebraska is dead after a 14-hour standoff, the Nebraska State Patrol said early Wednesday.

The gunman, 27-year-old Andres Gonzales, died after a shootout with state patrol SWAT team members at the pharmacy ...

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — North Dakotans say they've had enough of a decades-old controversy on its flagship university's nickname.

Voters overwhelmingly decided Tuesday to dump the University of North Dakota's Fighting Sioux moniker, an issue that has put its athletic teams at risk of NCAA sanctions and divided sports fans, alumni ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The three-day hunt for a man charged with killing three people near Auburn University ended with the suspect walking up the steps of an Alabama courthouse and peacefully turning himself in to a U.S. marshal waiting inside.

Hours after his surrender, Desmonte Leonard was being held ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A man accused of killing three people at a party near Auburn University turned himself in Tuesday after a three-day manhunt that included a tense but fruitless search of a Montgomery home by police tactical units, a defense attorney said.

Attorney Susan James said that her ...

BOSTON — 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 attorney said she doesn't regret because she still loves Mr. Bulger.

Catherine Greig showed ...

CHICAGO | Maybe it is the splintering of established drug gangs that has young men grabbing the tools of their trade - handguns - to jockey for position? Or it is that rival gangs, once miles apart in different public housing complexes, suddenly finding themselves sharing the same street corner?

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The wife of the neighborhood watch volunteer who killed Trayvon Martin was charged with perjury Tuesday, accused of lying when she told a judge that the couple had limited funds, resulting in her husband being released on $150,000 bond.

Shellie Zimmerman, 25, was released on $1,000 ...

BELLEFONTE, Pa. | Former Penn State assistant football coach Mike McQueary told jurors in Jerry Sandusky's sex abuse trial Tuesday that he saw his ex-colleague with a prepubescent boy in an on-campus shower and that he heard "skin-on-skin smacking sound."

His account of the night differed little from his appearance ...

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

An order issued Tuesday by assistant state attorney John Guy charged Shellie Zimmerman for knowingly making false statements ...

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

Catherine Greig showed no emotion when U.S. District Judge Douglas Woodlock handed down the sentence.

The 61-year-old Greig pleaded guilty in ...

Amsterdam-based ING Bank N.V. agreed Tuesday to forfeit $619 million to the Justice Department and the New York County District Attorney´s Office for conspiring to illegally move billions of dollars through the U.S. financial system on behalf of sanctioned Cuban and Iranian entities.

It is the largest ever forfeiture against ...