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Tropical Storm Isaias is forecast to strike the US Gulf Coast as a hurricane
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NYC ban on big sodas could face legal test
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We're crawling with microbes
WASHINGTON - They live on your skin, up your nose, in your gut - enough bacteria, fungi and other microbes that collected together could weigh, amazingly, a fe…
Democrats hold on to Giffords' Arizona congressional seat
PHOENIX - Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' hand-picked Democratic candidate won a special election Tuesday in southern Arizona to finish her term, defeating a Republican who narrowly lost to Giffords in 2010. The ra…
Badlands monument threatened
BISMARCK, N.D. - The site of the Elkhorn Ranch in the badlands of North Dakota looks and feels much as it did when Theodore Roosevelt retreated there to raise …
Sheriff: Man writing book on kindness shot in Montana
BILLINGS, Mont. - A West Virginia man who told authorities he was hitchhiking across the country and writing a memoir about kindness was injured in a seemingly random drive-by shooting near Montana's booming Bakken…
'Out of control' wildfires spread
BELLVUE, Colo. (AP) - Massive wildfires in drought-parched Colorado and New Mexico tested the resources of state and federal crews Monday and underscored the n…
Emerald City evolution
Suicides surge among troops
Kids aren't keeping their eyes on the road
Ray Bradbury, 1920-2012 Sci-fi author of 'Fahrenheit 451' dies
LOS ANGELES - Ray Bradbury imagined the future, and didn't always like what he saw.
Governor survives Wisconsin recall election
MADISON, Wis. - Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker beat back a recall challenge Tuesday, winning both the right to finish his term and a voter endorsement of his stra…
Few options left for Obama on economy
WASHINGTON - In the wake of an alarmingly weak jobs report last week, President Barack Obama and lawmakers in both parties find themselves possessing few if any realistic options for jolting the economy out of its …
Miss Rhode Island wins title
LAS VEGAS - The nation's newest Miss USA winner is a Rhode Island cellist who describes herself as a nerd and aspires to be more like Hollywood icon Audrey Hep…