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With Washington seemingly unable to help, people use homegrown solutions to fix their towns' problems.

The scientist leading the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, one of the most expensive experiments ever put into space, says the project is ready to come forward with its first results.

You go, girl.

Country singer alleges that dentist's negligence caused "emotional and psychiatric injuries."

Country music singer Mindy McCready has committed suicide, according to a report by MyFOX8 WGHP.

'Argo,' 'Zero Dark Thirty,' 'Sugar Man' win Writers Guild screenplay honors

Carnival Cruise Lines was hit with a second lawsuit relating to the Triumph, filed in Miami federal court today by a Houston woman who suffered severe dehydration and brusing from aggressive food lines, according to her ...

Think gasoline prices are coming down this year? Think again. Between supply constraints, the usual suspects in the Middle East, and China, oil demand is seen hefty enough to keep prices stable to high for the foreseeabl...

Nani and Javier Hernandez score as Manchester United survive a Reading fightback to reach the FA Cup quarter-finals.

First Lady Michelle Obama joked in an interview set to air Wednesday that her now signature bangs weren't a fashion statement but a result of a "mid-life crisis." "This is my mid-life crisis, the bangs," the First Lady, ...

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Brooke Shields is one of the few actresses who made the transition from child star to adult star without a major meltdown. At the age of 12, Shields was cast as a child prostitute in the 1978 movie "Pretty Baby." At 15, ...

An antique mirror managed to scare up $155 U.S. in a recent eBay auction despite -- or perhaps because of -- claims that it might be haunted. The two sellers -- Joseph Birch, 20, and Sotiris Charalambous, 43 -- claim the...

A "shocked" teammate of Oscar Pistorius rebutted rumors and speculation in South Africa that Pistorius had an anger-management problem around the time he allegedly killed his girlfriend.

Wages rose at the ridiculously paltry rate of 0.5 percent, seasonally adjusted for three months and for the year; compensation rose only 1.9%. A desert sheik should run such a frugal household. At 1.9% wage growth, any p...

* Media reports on killing challenge defence claims * Steroid influence could be defence By Ed Cropley JOHANNESBURG, Feb 18

Mark Sanford wants you to know that he has learned from his mistakes and will try to change Washington if he gets there. That's the message of his first TV ad, now visible on cable airwaves in Charleston, S.C., where the...

A new study may explain why some children report paranormal experiences with ghosts, fairies and monsters. ->

"In Living Color" star David Alan Grier will play Principal Carl Gaines in the CBS adaptation of Cameron Diaz's "Bad Teacher," according to The Hollywood Reporter. The single-camera comedy pilot is based on the 2011 movi...

A survey finds more than two thirds of Britons would support a review of policy options for controlling all drugs.

Andy Foster of Trading Standards Institute says the manufacturers are ultimately responsible for the horsemeat scandal.

If you think the 20th century's teen years look an awful like those of the 21st - massive technological change and fault lines breaking open between the one and the 99% - you're quite right. In the most recent season of ...