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Search ongoing for missing medical flight from Bermuda to Boston as crews plan to scour ocean floor
Chronic fatigue is often a sign of depression
A half year later
NEWTOWN, Conn. - The town where 20 children and six educators were massacred in December went silent for a moment Friday, six months later, at a remembrance ev…
Obama to ramp up involvement in Syria
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama has authorized sending weapons to Syrian rebels for the first time, U.S. officials said Thursday, after the White House disclosed that the United States has conclusive evide…
Pull up those pants, punks ... it's the law
WILDWOOD, N.J. (AP) - Hindsight will soon be punishable by a $25 fine in this Jersey Shore resort.
Signs of confidence and resilience
Crane operator turns himself in
Investment darlings
Factory orders up 1 percent in April
A menu to feed the midnight McMunchies
NEW YORK - McDonald's is taking a small step toward offering breakfast items outside its usual breakfast hours - at least if you're a night owl.
Some, not all, of U.S. regains wealth lost from recession
WASHINGTON (AP) - America as a whole has regained all the household wealth it lost to the Great Recession and then some, thanks to higher stock and home prices.
Big brother is watching
WASHINGTON - A leaked document has laid bare the monumental scope of the government's surveillance of Americans' phone records - hundreds of millions of calls - in the first hard evidence of a massive data collecti…
Not-so-great grain
PORTLAND, Ore. - A genetically modified test strain of wheat that emerged to the surprise of an Oregon farmer last month was likely the result of an accident o…
Market at lowest level in a month
NEW YORK - A series of weak economic reports sent the stock market plunging to its lowest level in a month on Wednesday.
Six die in building collapse
PHILADELPHIA - Searchers combing through the debris of a collapsed building and the remains of a damaged Salvation Army thrift store pulled a woman from the ru…
Lottery winner comes forward
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - An 84-year-old Florida widow who bought her Powerball ticket after another customer let her get ahead in line came forward Wednesday to cla…