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MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) -- A committed "locavore," Robin McDermott once struggled to stock her kitchen with food grown within 100 miles of her Vermont home. She once drove 70 miles to buy beans and ordered a bulk shipment of oats from the neighboring Canadian province of Quebec....

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett hopes for a chance at a rematch against Republican Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker as Democrats vote Tuesday on who will take on the first-term governor in a historic recall election next month....

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett hopes for the chance at a rematch with Wisconsin's Republican Gov. Scott Walker as Democrats decide who will take on the first-term governor in a recall election....

A tornado has been reported in parts of Oxfordshire during a storm which caused damage to trees and roof tiles on Monday.

A shell containing phosphorus which was washed up on a Sussex beach is blown-up by bomb disposal experts.

BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) -- The first witness to take the stand against former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky said he regretted having kept the alleged sexual abuse a secret, and feels guilty because of the other boys that prosecutors say were victimized after him....

The chairman of the Environment Agency, Lord Smith, backs the expansion of the controversial "fracking" method of extracting natural gas from shale rock.

NEW DELHI (AP) -- The United States and India are calling on Pakistan to do more to stop terrorism and have pledged to keep up pressure on Iran over its nuclear program....

The world's biggest open-air experiment to see what effects rising levels of carbon dioxide will have on our planet has begun in Australia.

Insurance firm Aviva announces that chief executive Andrew Moss will be leaving with immediate effect following a shareholder revolt over executive pay.

A fight over interest rates on federal student loans, which are scheduled to nearly double in July unless Congress acts, hits the Senate floor today.

David Haye and Dereck Chisora will fight at Upton Park on 14 July in a bout sanctioned by the Luxembourg Boxing Federation.

OCEAN CITY, N.J. (AP) -- Voters in a dry New Jersey seaside community that calls itself "America's Greatest Family Resort" will decide Tuesday whether the threat of competition outweighs their fears of turning a vestige of the temperance movement into a destination for "Jersey Shore"-type shenanigans....

The number of empty school places needs to be cut to save money and improve standards in Wales, an education watchdog urges.

Labour and the Scottish National Party strike a coalition deal to run Edinburgh City Council as administration talks continue across Scotland.

Prince Harry has received the Atlantic Council's 2012 award for distinguished humanitarian leadership, for his charitable work with wounded armed service members.

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, widely accused of moving too slowly to prevent Asian carp and other exotic species from invading the Great Lakes, will release a short list of possible solutions next year to quicken the process, officials said Tuesday....

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) -- Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen temporarily suspended new land concessions to private companies in an effort to ease political pressure over an issue that has triggered social unrest and occasional violence....

An Airbus boss says the company has found a long-term solution to small cracks in some of the A380 super jumbo wings, which are made in Flintshire.

Stephen Hendry warns snooker chief Barry Hearn that the sport without world champion Ronnie O'Sullivan would be far less attractive.