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A small First Nation in northern Ontario has declared a state of emergency after two suicides in less than a week. More...

A Washington state woman is facing a first-degree child assault charge for allegedly putting bleach in her 14-month-old daughter's eyes, authorities say. The case against Jennifer Lynn Mothershead, 29, of Buckley began in May 2011 when the daughter was airlifted to a hospital with a head...

Firefighters in various parts of the United States said they were battling wildfires Tuesday. Smoke from Florida wildfires blanketed part of the state's northeast, with no rain predicted to help dry conditions, officials said. Firefighters were trying to contain six of 20 wildfires in...

AP - State officials are revising the death toll from a severe storm in southern Illinois, saying six people have been confirmed dead. More...

A town in New York state can use its zoning powers to ban drilling for natural gas, a judge ruled Tuesday. Justice Phillip R. Rumsey of the New York Supreme Court -- the trial-level court in the state -- ruled in favor of the town of Dryden, The New York Times reported. Dryden, a town of about...

AP - A resurgent Rick Santorum hopes to spring his next big surprise in Michigan. Newt Gingrich looks for a campaign revival in the Bible Belt. Mitt Romney has his home state of Massachusetts, and the luxury of picking his spots elsewhere, if not everywhere, as the race for the Republican...

AP - A resurgent Rick Santorum hopes to spring his next big surprise in Michigan. Newt Gingrich looks for a campaign revival in the Bible Belt. Mitt Romney has his home state of Massachusetts, and the luxury of picking his spots elsewhere, if not everywhere, as the race for the Republican...

AP - People sterilized against their will under a discredited North Carolina state program should each be paid $50,000, a task force voted Tuesday, marking the first time a state has moved to compensate victims of a once-common public health practice called eugenics. More...

AP - Syria has entered a state of civil war with more than 4,000 people dead and an increasing number of soldiers defecting from the army to take up arms against President Bashar Assad's regime, the U.N.'s top human rights official said Thursday. More...

AP - Time and again, questions about an alleged cover-up of a sex abuse scandal at Penn State circled back to one name: Joe Paterno. More...

AP - The Penn State board met in executive session Sunday following the weekend announcement that criminal charges were filed against former retired defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky, accusing him of sexually abusing young boys. More...

Officials in a number of German state governments have owned up to using the Quellen-TKÜ Trojan Horse software in criminal investigations to intercept encrypted telecommunications on PCs. At least one state said it has suspended use of the software, after the Chaos Computer Club discovered that...

Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg urged parliament Monday to preserve the democratic values of Norway as public pressure grew for stiffer sentences for serious crimes after an anti-immigration zealot's bloody rampage. In a poll of nearly 1,300 people taken six days after the attacks that left...

Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton signed a new budget Wednesday, ending the nation's longest state government shutdown in the past decade. Dayton's signature came just hours after lawmakers gave their own approval to the deal after meeting in special session that started Tuesday afternoon and lasted...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican government has raised the official death toll from Tropical Storm Arlene to 22. Civil protection officials say the most deaths have been recorded in the central state of Hidalgo and the northern state of San Luis Potosi, with each state reporting five. In the...

Minnesota's Democratic Governor Mark Dayton and Republican legislative leaders met on Tuesday but failed to break a budget impasse five days into a state government shutdown. Trying to bridge the divide, former Vice President Walter Mondale and former Minnesota Republican Governor Arne Carlson...

NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas – Texas cattle ranchers are selling their herds, and some communities are running out of water, as a punishing Texas drought shows no sign of waning with the driest months still ahead. "Things are very tough and they will stay tough until Mother Nature helps us and gets us...

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. – Terrelle Pryor ended his silence Tuesday — for exactly 97 seconds. Speaking out for the first time since his college career at Ohio State ended embroiled in scandal, Pryor appeared with agent Drew Rosenhaus and gave a brief statement in which he apologized to the Buckeyes...

Los Angeles (CNN) -- California wants to shift low-level state offenders to county jails as a way to reduce overcrowding, as ordered by the U.S. Supreme Court, under an unfunded plan that would require legislative and voter approval, the state's top corrections official said Tuesday. State...

Washington (CNN) -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom at a state dinner on Tuesday, a big honor for a U.S. ally who differs at times with the Obama administration. Merkel, 56, dined privately with President Barack Obama at a Georgetown restaurant on...