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Two little girls, not yet old enough for kindergarten, were shot to death. Their infant sister was found asphyxiated.
A fire on a nuclear-powered submarine at a Maine shipyard has injured six people, including a firefighter.
Retired Lt. Cmdr. Wesley Brown, the first African-American to graduate from the U.S. Naval Academy, has died, the Academy said. He was 85.
More high school students are enrolling in math and science classes and seeking online learning opportunities. Fewer want or are able to find jobs while in school.
The State Department has launched a different sort of raid against al-Qaida, engaging in a cat and mouse game to replace anti-American al-Qaida ads on Yemeni tribal websites.
A South African businessman who helped put a notorious Russian arms dealer known as The Merchant of Death behind bars for 25 years was rewarded on Wednesday with a five-year prison term for charges stemming from the same U.S. sting operation.
Mexican artist Diego Rivera's "Girl in Blue and White" failed to find a buyer at Sotheby's Latin American art auction in New York.
A U.S.-born drug cartel lieutenant who was arrested in Mexico was successfully extradited to the United States on Wednesday to face federal racketeering and drug charges, according to federal prosecutors.
A coalition of 10 media companies, including The Associated Press, has filed a joint motion with a federal court in Greensboro seeking the release of information about jurors at the conclusion of the John Edwards trial.
Federal officials say a U.S.-born drug cartel lieutenant who was arrested in Mexico has been successfully extradited to the United States to face federal racketeering and drug charges.
Retired Lt. Cmdr. Wesley Brown, the first African-American to graduate from the U.S. Naval Academy, has died, the Academy said. He was 85.
For Obama, whose political star first rose in Boston when he delivered the keynote at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, the passion he engendered among Bay State donors in 2008 helped his campaign shatter presidential fundraising records. Four years later, the exuberance appears to have waned as the tough realities of governing set in, both according to some fundraisers themselves and as measured by the numbers. The number of Massachusetts donors giving the maximum has dropped by nearly half compared to the same time in 2008.
