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ATLANTA (AP) -- The nation's largest private prison company made an enticing offer to 48 states that went something like this: We will buy your prison now if you agree to keep it mostly full and promise to pay us for running it over the next two decades. Despite a need for cash, several states immediately slammed the door on the offer, a sign that privatizing prisons might not be as popular as it once was....

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A fire at an education ministry warehouse in Peru destroys 500,000 textbooks and 60,000 computers, just as the new school year is getting under way.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- Virginia Tech's president on Friday defended his actions during the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, saying in court: "I tried my best."...

Taliban militants are threatening to carry out fresh attacks if the three widows of Osama Bin Laden are not released by Pakistani authorities.

With no sign of an end to the ongoing violence in Syria, thousands of refugees continue to flee over the Turkish-Syrian border in search of safety.

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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- The operator of a Utah coal mine where a 2007 collapse led to the deaths of nine people agreed on Friday to plead guilty to two misdemeanor criminal charges and pay a $500,000 fine....

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- The operator of a Utah coal mine where a 2007 collapse led to the deaths of nine people agreed on Friday to plead guilty to two misdemeanor criminal charges and pay a $500,000 fine....

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- The operator of a Utah coal mine where a 2007 collapse led to the deaths of nine people agreed on Friday to plead guilty to two misdemeanor criminal charges and pay a $500,000 fine....

BALA CYNWYD, Pa. (AP) -- The remains of five Irish laborers who researchers believe were murdered in 1832 while building a Pennsylvania railroad received a dignified re-interment Friday, more than 3,000 miles from their homeland and nearly two centuries after their first anonymous burials....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney's Super Tuesday victories elicited a collective yawn from his party's superdelegates....

NEW YORK (AP) -- A prominent U.S. senator has met with North Korea's nuclear envoy who promised to live up to commitments made in an agreement last week with the United States....

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- A dozen earthquakes in northeastern Ohio were almost certainly induced by injection of gas-drilling wastewater into the earth, state regulators said Friday as they announced a series of tough new rules for drillers....

ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Greece's bailout conditions are so catastrophic for the country they must be rejected, the radical left-wing party leader who has a strong chance of winning the country's critical election this weekend insisted Tuesday....

ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Greece's private creditors agreed Friday to take cents on the euro in the biggest debt writedown in history, paving the way for an enormous second bailout for the country to keep Europe's economy from being dragged further into chaos....

ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Greece's private creditors agreed Friday to take cents on the euro in the biggest debt writedown in history, paving the way for an enormous second bailout for the country to keep Europe's economy from being dragged further into chaos....

SWAT teams in western Washington state were looking for a man who fled a courthouse Friday after a judge was stabbed in the neck and a female officer was shot, officials said.

JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel's deputy foreign minister says an annual protest Palestinians mounted over the weekend is "political terrorism."...