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Experts: Cult member not insane despite odd plea

Published March 31, 2009

BALTIMORE (AP) âÄî A former religious cult member who helped starve her son to death believes he will be resurrected, but legal experts say her extreme faith doesn't make her criminally insane....

‘Morning-after’ pill coverage expands

Published March 30, 2009

Editor’s note: This is an installment of an occasional series that provides updates and analysis on issues related to health policy.

Sisters to be buried with brother who killed them

Published March 30, 2009

BOSTON (AP) âÄî Two sisters and the brother who killed them with a kitchen knife will share a single funeral service and be buried together. Samantha Revelus, 17, and her sister, Bianca, 5, were...

Accused in NC rampage may have been after wife

Published March 30, 2009

CARTHAGE, N.C. (AP) âÄî A painter accused of shooting up a North Carolina nursing home may have been after his recently estranged wife during a rampage that killed seven defenseless residents and...

Stimulus doesn’t offer answers to possible U layoffs

Published March 30, 2009

The stimulus funds are unlikely to prevent layoffs in the future.

Flooding in Fargo eases but winter storm moves in

Published March 30, 2009

Engineers are concerned that waves could weaken dikes.

After week of labor, many area students leave flood area

Published March 29, 2009

While some students from outside the area, including the Twin Cities, came to help, others were advised not to come.

Students in the cities, parents in the flood

Published March 29, 2009

University students face separation from their flooding hometown.

Urban coyote attacks on rise, alarming residents

Published March 29, 2009

DENVER (AP) âÄî A coyote ambling into a Chicago sandwich shop or taking up residence in New York's Central Park understandably creates a stir. But even here on the high plains of Colorado, where...