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New Orleans' daily newspaper, The Times-Picayune, will switch to publishing three days a week starting in the fall and plans to increase its focus on online news.
Study finds more people speed through intersections this weekend than any other time during the year.
Alabama and Mississippi's shrimping season will open May 30th.
Authorities have arrested a man for climbing Mount Rushmore National Memorial in western South Dakota.
A man believed to have been suicidal survived a jump into Niagara Falls.
Woman ordered to trial for alleged illegal cosmetic surgery at "pumping parties" that included Krazy Glue.
More than 2,000 people who were falsely convicted of serious crimes have been exonerated in the United States in the past 23 years, according to a new archive compiled at two universities.
Workers all across the country aren't using their vacation days.
The mother of slain Florida teenager Trayvon Martin got a standing ovation before speaking to parishioners at a Baltimore church.
Mark Zuckerberg and 27-year-old Priscilla Chan tied the knot at a small ceremony at his home in Palo Alto, California.
Hollywood star Will Smith slapped a male television reporter who he said tried to kiss him on the lips as he walked down the red carpet for the Moscow premiere of "Men in Black III."
An annular solar eclipse occurs when the moon blots out all but a ring around the sun. This year's solar show can be viewed from eastern Asia to parts of North America.
In "outing" their families as well as themselves, they know they risk being deported.
Rocket engine trouble led to a last-second abort of the historic launch of a new private supply ship for the International Space Station.
Tropical Storm Alberto forms Saturday off the coast of South Carolina. The storm will not threaten the Gulf Coast. The 2012 Hurricane Season officially begins June 1.
The National Weather Service announced Richard Knabb will be the next director of the National Hurricane Center.
Police have arrested a suspect in two fatal highway shootings in Mississippi that prompted warnings a fake officer might be pulling over victims.
For the first time, racial and ethnic minorities make up more than half the children born in the U.S., capping decades of heady immigration growth that is now slowing.
Officials won't say why Mark David Chapman was moved from Attica to another prison in Alden, NY.
When it comes to writing prescriptions, more doctors are taking the paperless route and sending things electronically.
Although most Americans are sympathetic to the plight of poor people, many think poverty is caused by laziness, according to The Salvation Army.
Female soldiers this week are moving into new jobs in once all-male units as the Army breaks down formal barriers in recognition of what has already happened in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Spec. Leslie H. Sabo Jr. will receive the nation's highest military award posthumously.
Ooh, aah: Take in Yosemite views - by computer.
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