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Police were investigating the deaths of three Oregon children and their parents as an apparent murder-suicide Wednesday after authorities found the bodies of the children and their mother at a burned home and then that of their father in a car hours later.
Authorities ha...

America's executions have changed dramatically over the years, morphing from daylong events in the town square to somber and tightly controlled affairs held deep inside prisons.
Driving the change was the quest for a less gruesome -- even less painful -- method of execut...

The Harris County Sports and Convention Corp. will recommend a fate for the Astrodome, a building that transformed sports entertainment.
The staff will present the five-member board with its report Wednesday. One option is demolition.
When the Astrodome op...

With milk prices projected to fall and fuel costs high, more small dairy farms are going out of business.
Vermont has lost 14 dairy farms this year. A few have started up, but overall, the number of farms continues to drop in a state long known for its milk and cheese.
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A San Francisco-based federal appeals court ruled in 2002 that every aspect of an execution should be open to witnesses, from the moment the condemned enters into the death chamber to his final heartbeat.
The ruling established what was expected of the nine Western state...

Officials diverted a US Airways jet to Maine after a French passenger traveling from Paris to North Carolina handed a note to a flight attendant mentioning that she had a surgically implanted device, prompting concerns about possible terrorism.
There is no evidence the p...

Mitt Romney is wading into a new policy arena -- the nation's education system -- as he broadens his focus to appeal to general election voters still getting to know President Barack Obama's likely opponent.
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee has been reluct...

Sentencing is set for an upstate New York woman who admits she faked having cancer to con donors into paying for her wedding and Caribbean honeymoon.
Jessica Vega isn't likely to do prison time, but court officials say she'll have to repay $13,368 to her victims. She's b...

A fast-moving wildfire erupted in a rural neighborhood near the Nevada-California line and destroyed two homes Tuesday but no injuries were reported and the danger from what one frightened resident described as a "wall of fire" was subsiding as winds died at nightfall along t...

Carrying small American flags and wearing T-shirts bearing the names of friends and loved ones who died when a massive tornado tore through Joplin one year ago, thousands of people made a somber march Tuesday through some of the town's hardest-hit neighborhoods.
Resident...