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CHARDON, Ohio (AP) — A judge in northeast Ohio said Wednesday that a 17-year-old boy charged in a school shooting is mentally competent to stand trial in the deaths of three students.

The ruling by Judge Timothy Grendell in Geauga County Juvenile Court means suspect T.J. Lane can be tried ...

Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng says he gave up his refuge in the US embassy in Beijing after Chinese authorities made threats to family members.

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Drug Enforcement Administration issued an apology Wednesday to a California student who was picked up during a drug raid and left in a holding cell for several days without food, water or access to a toilet.

DEA San Diego Acting Special Agent-in-Charge William R. Sherman ...

More than 2,000 public sector workers could be avoiding the full rate of income tax by being paid by the government on special contracts, reports Newsnight's Peter Marshall.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- Count Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin as another West Virginia Democrat who's keeping his distance from President Barack Obama....

A passenger who admitted using an electronic device last month to videotape a bird strike has received an FAA warning.

A 78-year-old from East Sussex is to become the oldest person ever to have a sex change operation on the NHS.

Leading Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng says he left his refuge in the US embassy in Beijing after Chinese authorities made threats to his family.

More than 2,000 public sector workers could be avoiding the full rate of income tax by being paid by the government on special contracts, reports Newsnight's Peter Marshall.

The UN Security Council passes a resolution threatening sanctions on Sudan and South Sudan if the two nations fail to halt recent violence.

More than 100 people have been charged and an estimated $450 million in false billings uncovered by federal agents in a nationwide operation that authorities say is the largest bust in recent history.

Libya's NTC lifts its ban on religious parties as Libyans register to vote in June's congressional elections.

Newt Gingrich halts his White House campaign, but falls short of a full-throated endorsement for presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney.

Researchers are surprised by how much earlier plants begin flowering when at elevated temperatures - a far greater effect than models predict.

Gunfire is heard in Mali's capital Bamako for a third day as junta patrols hunt down soldiers who tried to stage an counter-coup earlier in the week.

The editor of the world-leading scientific journal Nature says current procedures to assess and censor research potentially useful to bioterrorists are "problematic" and need to be improved.

WASHINGTON — The government plans to speed up the process for tracking E. coli in meat, a move that will help authorities more quickly find the source of bacteria outbreaks and hasten food recalls.

The new Agriculture Department program announced Wednesday would begin tracing the source of potentially contaminated ground ...

David Frum says the GOP has a problem attracting Latino voters and Marco Rubio as a VP candidate wouldn't change that

BERLIN (AP) -- A court in Germany ruled Wednesday that Microsoft infringed two patents held by Motorola, in a case that could affect sales of its popular Xbox 360 console and the Windows 7 operating system....

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- A woman whose own skin is deeply bronze-colored from regular visits to a tanning salon has been accused of taking her 5-year-old daughter into a tanning booth in violation of state law, burning the girl's skin....