PITTSBURGH (AP) -- The Sierra Club and some other environmental groups are harshly criticizing a new partnership that aims to create tough new standards for fracking.
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BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- A man charged with beating a monkey to death with a tree branch at Boise's zoo last fall has pleaded guilty to animal cruelty.
Michael Watkins, 22, of Weiser, reached... READ MORE »
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Philadelphia police are trying to find a man who fired into an Asian food store and wounded three people by releasing surveillance video of the crime on YouTube.
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VATICAN CITY (AP) -- One of the Vatican's main Twitter accounts and the website of its communications office were running stories about Batman on Thursday with the headline "Holy Switcheroo... READ MORE »
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Rusted pieces of two Apollo-era rocket engines that helped boost astronauts to the moon have been fished out of the murky depths of the Atlantic, Amazon.com CEO Jeff... READ MORE »
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Some of the nation's biggest oil and gas companies have made peace with environmentalists, agreeing to a voluntary set of tough new standards for fracking in the... READ MORE »
ASTON, Pa. (AP) -- A suburban Philadelphia school board has expelled a teen actor who got into an altercation with his director while playing Daddy Warbucks in the musical "Annie."
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PATTON, Pa. (AP) -- A western Pennsylvania county coroner says a man blew himself up inside a truck outside a home, injuring two other people, one critically.
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SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) -- Former NBA star Adrian Dantley spent years guarding opponents on the court. Now he's guarding schoolchildren as they cross the street.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- An assault weapons ban won't be in the gun-control legislation that Democrats bring to the Senate floor next month, a decision that means the ban's chances of survival... READ MORE »
