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HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) -- The last straw for 17-year-old Alton Burke was a note left on his door. The high school dropout picked up the phone and re-enrolled at South Hagerstown High....

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Banners purportedly signed by one of Mexico's drug cartels and hung in Guanajuato promise there will be no violence during next weekend's visit to the state by Pope Benedict XVI, an official said Sunday....

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Banners purportedly signed by one of Mexico's drug cartels and hung in Guanajuato promise there will be no violence during next weekend's visit to the state by Pope Benedict XVI, an official said Sunday....

WRAY, Colo. (AP) -- A large, wind-fueled grass fire on the plains of northeastern Colorado destroyed at least two homes, threatened multiple others and forced all 300 residents of a rural town to evacuate Sunday....

CHICAGO (AP) -- The first study to look at methamphetamine's potential lasting effects on children whose mothers used it in pregnancy finds these kids at higher risk for behavior problems than other children....

CHICAGO (AP) -- The first study to look at methamphetamine's potential lasting effects on children whose mothers used it in pregnancy finds these kids at higher risk for behavior problems than other children....

Is it the end of the "greenest government ever"?

STOCKHOLM (AP) -- Syria imported nearly six times more weapons in 2007-2011 than in the previous five-year period, with Russia accounting for 72 percent of the arms supplies to President Bashar Assad's regime, an international research institute said Monday....

STOCKHOLM (AP) -- Syria imported nearly six times more weapons in 2007-2011 than in the previous five-year period, with Russia accounting for 72 percent of the arms supplies to President Bashar Assad's regime, an international research institute said Monday....

Much of the often-agitated press appears obsessed with social media, tweeting and posting stories to attract measurable buzz, and possibly job security.

But the impact of Twitter and Facebook is not particularly significant in the competitive marketplace, according to Pew Research Center's annual "State of the Media Report" released Monday.

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HAVANA (AP) -- Cuban authorities detained a prominent dissident and dozens of her colleagues early Sunday, then rounded up more activists while they staged a weekly protest march through Havana just days before a visit by Pope Benedict XVI....

HAVANA (AP) -- Cuban authorities detained a prominent dissident and dozens of her colleagues early Sunday, then rounded up more activists while they staged a weekly protest march through Havana just days before a visit by Pope Benedict XVI....

FAYETTEVILLE, Ga. (AP) -- Famed Georgia sportswriter Furman Bisher, who covered everything from major golf tournaments to the Triple Crown during a career that spanned six decades, died Sunday of a massive heart attack outside Atlanta. He was 93....

FAYETTEVILLE, Ga. (AP) -- Famed Georgia sportswriter Furman Bisher, who covered everything from major golf tournaments to the Triple Crown during a career that spanned six decades, died Sunday of a massive heart attack outside Atlanta. He was 93....

FAYETTEVILLE, Ga. (AP) -- Famed Georgia sportswriter Furman Bisher, who covered everything from major golf tournaments to the Triple Crown during a career that spanned six decades, died Sunday of a massive heart attack outside Atlanta. He was 93....

The prime minister's 2010 pledge to lead the "greenest government ever" is falling on deaf ears, an opinion poll suggests, with just 2% believing it is.

NEW YORK (AP) -- It was a decade when tens of millions of people in the U.S. experienced mass unemployment and social upheaval as the nation clawed its way out of the Great Depression and rumblings of global war were heard from abroad....

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- Australian Defense Minister Stephen Smith says parliamentary elections planned in East Timor could allow international troops to begin withdrawing after six years of restoring stability to the fledgling Southeast Asian nation....

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- Australian Defense Minister Stephen Smith says parliamentary elections planned in East Timor could allow international troops to begin withdrawing after six years of restoring stability to the fledgling Southeast Asian nation....

Indonesian anti-terror police shoot dead five men suspected of planning robberies to fund terror attacks on the island of Bali, officials say.