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Emory U: False data sent to rankings groups
Prestigious Emory University intentionally misreported student data to rankings magazines for more than a decade, the Atlanta school disclosed Friday, ...
Pizza Hut, Home Depot deny copying Black Keys work
Attorneys for Pizza Hut and The Home Depot are denying that a pair of ads improperly used music by The Black Keys. The Grammy-winning band sued the ...
'West Memphis Three' out of prison for a year
For nearly two decades, prison was the only home Jason Baldwin, Damien Echols and Jessie Misskelley Jr. knew. Convicted as teenagers in the gruesome ...
2012 conventions embrace social media openness
Democrats and Republicans are using social media to turn their national conventions away from the smoke-filled rooms of yore and into meetings where ...
AP photographer recounts burning car rescue
When a sport utility vehicle ran off a rural stretch of interstate and slammed into pine trees in Mississippi, nearly two dozen people rushed to help ...
Black journalists protest debate exclusion
A group of black journalists says it is disappointed in the lack of ethnic diversity among the people chosen to moderate presidential debates.
Navy's oldest commissioned warship to sail again
The U.S. Navy's oldest commissioned warship will sail under its own power for just the second time in more than a century to commemorate the battle ...
For Miss., an angst-filled Civil War anniversary
Commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Civil War can be an angst-filled task in Mississippi, with its long history of racial strife and a state ...
NABC files brief backing affirmative action case
The National Association of Basketball Coaches has told the U.S. Supreme Court it believes university officials should be able to continue taking race ...
CBS drops suit against ABC over 'Glass House' show
CBS dropped its lawsuit Friday against ABC over its reality series "The Glass House," citing the show's low viewership numbers as a reason it is no ...
Forest Service now tries to tamp out every flame
If lightning strikes in the New Mexico wilderness and starts a fire, the blaze would normally be little more than a blip on the radar of land managers ...
Butler sentenced to 20 years in Conn. extortion
A former butler insisted on his innocence and said he's scared to go to jail as he was sentenced Friday to 20 years in prison for trying to extort ...
Police: Michigan mother, 2 kids stabbed with knife
A woman and two children found dead in a suburban Detroit home when officers went to notify her of her husband's death in a fatal crash were stabbed ...
Conn. town settles dispute over girl's pet bunny
Officials in a Connecticut town have settled a zoning dispute over a local girl's 20-pound pet bunny after receiving calls and emails from across the ...
Jan. trial for ex-PSU officials Curley, Schultz
The trial is scheduled to begin early next year for two former Penn State officials accused of lying to a grand jury and burying an allegation of a ...
Wisconsin center of Republican wave
Wisconsin Republicans seem to have it all. Native son Paul Ryan is Mitt Romney's running mate. Gov. Scott Walker is a national conservative hero after ...
Liz Cheney says move to Wyoming not about politics
Liz Cheney says her recent move to Wyoming wasn't motivated by politics. The daughter of former vice president Dick Cheney and her family moved from ...
AP IMPACT: CO2 emissions in US drop to 20-year low
In a surprising turnaround, the amount of carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere in the U.S. has fallen dramatically to its lowest level ...
Fake followers newest ploy, accusation in politics
Forget ballot box irregularities. There's a virtual dust-up under way over how Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney amassed more than 100,000 ...
Mass. man gets 'wrong' lottery ticket, wins $1M
When a store clerk gave a Massachusetts man a different kind of scratch-off lottery ticket than he asked for, he didn't make a big deal about the ...
Progressive insurance on defense after court case
The Progressive Corp. insurance group is defending itself against an onslaught of negative publicity after it tried to avoid paying $75,000 to the ...
Boy dies, brother missing in river in Yosemite
Authorities were searching a stretch of the Merced River for a 6-year-old boy after his older brother died when a current swept them away during a ...
Young immigrants may find college elusive
Araceli Cortes had made up her mind: After being brought to the U.S. as a child, graduating from high school and attending some college in California, ...
Quotations of the day
"I did go back and look at my taxes and over the past 10 years I never paid less than 13 percent. I think the most recent year is 13.6 or something ...
Some residents near Wash. wildfire return home
Some residents forced to flee a large central Washington fire were allowed to return to their homes Thursday, while firefighters in rural Idaho ...