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LANSING, Mich. — A state board Thursday deadlocked on a proposal to put Michigan's contentious emergency financial manager law on November's ballot for possible repeal, dealing a major blow to a petition drive sparked in part by the state's deal to fix Detroit's troubled city finances.

The Michigan Board of ...

SEATTLE — The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit Thursday against the U.S. Border Patrol seeking to bar agents from making traffic stops, saying people are being pulled over and questioned "without reasonable suspicion."

The lawsuit stems from tensions between immigrants and the expanded presence of Border Patrol agents ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Under heavy pressure from farm groups, the Obama administration is dropping an effort to prevent children from doing hazardous work on farms owned by anyone other than their parents....

NEW YORK (AP) -- Any new arrival to New York City wants to see the sights - and the space shuttle Enterprise is no different....

The first-graders in Ohio Pack 109's Tiger Scouts didn't know or care their den mother was a lesbian - at least not until the Boy Scouts of America threw her out over the organization's ban on gays....

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) -- The judge in the John Edwards trial abruptly closed the courtroom Friday to talk to attorneys about an issue with a juror and sent the panel home after six days of deliberations with a stern warning not to talk about the case....

One month after the chief restructuring officer for failed solar panel maker Solyndra reported no wrongdoing by the company, documents show federal investigators have remained busy in recent months scouring the company's financial documents, internal emails and computers.

The activity surrounding the criminal probe into Solyndra was revealed in bankruptcy ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- More than 3 million health insurance policyholders and thousands of employers will share $1.3 billion in rebates this year, thanks to President Barack Obama's health care law, a nonpartisan research group said Thursday....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- More than 3 million health insurance policyholders and thousands of employers will share $1.3 billion in rebates this year, thanks to President Barack Obama's health care law, a nonpartisan research group said Thursday....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- More than 3 million health insurance policyholders and thousands of employers will share $1.3 billion in rebates this year, thanks to President Barack Obama's health care law, a nonpartisan research group said Thursday....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Expanding the prostitution investigation, the Secret Service acknowledged Thursday it is checking whether its employees hired strippers and prostitutes in advance of President Barack Obama's visit last year to El Salvador....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House ignored Obama administration objections Thursday and approved legislation aimed at helping stop electronic attacks on critical U.S. infrastructure and private companies....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate overcame election-year gender politics Thursday to pass a bill renewing the government's main domestic violence program....

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TALLAHASSEE — A Florida Highway Patrol lieutenant who ordered the reopening of a fog- and smoke-shrouded interstate highway shortly before a series of crashes killed 11 people was unaware of the agency's procedures and had no formal training in opening and reopening roads, a state report said Thursday.

The ...

BRIDGEPORT, OHIO — The first-graders in Ohio Pack 109's Tiger Scouts didn't know or care their den mother was a lesbian at least not until the Boy Scouts of America disqualified her over the organization's ban on gays.

Now, parents who were aware of Jennifer Tyrell's sexual orientation well before ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government said Thursday that 68,000 guns recovered by Mexican authorities in the past five years have been traced back to the United States....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate has passed a bill to renew the government's main domestic violence program....

WEST BRIDGEWATER, Mass. (AP) -- Steve Wohlen lay on his front lawn, blue, unconscious and barely breathing, overdosing on heroin....

The first-graders in Ohio Pack 109's Tiger Scouts didn't know or care their den mother was a lesbian - at least not until the Boy Scouts of America threw her out over the organization's ban on gays....

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- A member of a Los Angeles temple apologized Thursday for offering an internship in a U.S. senator's office as part of a charity auction that the founder of "Girls Gone Wild" says he won....