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Clemson University is getting nearly $100 million in federal stimulus funds to study wind energy. Read More

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, whose tryst with an Argentine lover blossomed into a wide-ranging scandal, is accused of breaking ethics laws by using taxpayer money for pricey airline seats, taking state planes for personal and political trips and occasionally tapping his campaign chest to reimburse himself for travel. Read More

Development officials say almost half the people in the world lack modern fuels to cook or heat their homes, including 1.2 billion without any electricity. Read More

The U.N. humanitarian chief says Sri Lanka's decision to release Tamil refugees confined to government camps is good news but the United Nations is concerned about how they are being returned home. Read More

A Maui man accused of selling military secrets to China has been found competent to stand trial. Read More

The District of Columbia has agreed to pay more than $13 million to settle a lawsuit by protesters arrested during demonstrations nine years ago. Read More

Federal prosecutors have announced charges against eight more people as part of a long-running investigation of young men who left the United States to fight in Somalia. Read More

Prosecutors say John Kerry's eldest daughter won't be charged with drunken driving in Los Angeles. Read More

A former Las Vegas supervisor for the political advocacy group ACORN was sentenced Monday to up to three years' probation for his role in a plan to pay canvassers to register Nevada voters during last year's presidential campaign. Read More

Brynwood Partners VI LP, a private investment firm in Greenwich, Conn., said Monday it bought energy bar company Balance Bar Co. from Kraft Foods for an undisclosed sum. Read More

A jury in Philadelphia has ordered Wyeth Pharmaceuticals to pay a woman $75 million in punitive damages after finding a link between her breast cancer and a hormone-replacement drug. Read More

Police say an unfounded report of a hostage situation in a building near the Missouri governor's mansion was caused by someone calling an elevator phone to warn of a hostage-taking. Read More

The sister of an unruly passenger injured after being removed from a San Francisco Bay area commuter train says transit police used excessive force on the mentally ill man. Read More

A convicted murderer who is seeking a taxpayer-funded sex-change operation has asked a judge to order Massachusetts prison officials to provide electrolysis treatments. Read More

A central California woman convicted of abandoning her three newborns, one of whom froze to death, has been sentenced to 22 years to life in prison. Read More

The remains of British hostage Alec Collett, who disappeared in 1985 during Lebanon's civil war while working for the United Nations, have been positively identified, the U.N. announced Monday. Read More

A Syracuse teenager who falsely confessed to fatally shooting a neighbor has been sentenced to two to six years in state prison. Read More

Good news this Thanksgiving: Compared to 50 years ago, some staples of the Turkey Day table have fewer calories. Read More

Seemingly contradicting his own public statements, an attorney for the man accused of gunning down a Kansas abortion provider has argued in court documents that his client has an "absolute right" to present a defense that argues the killing was justified to stop abortion. Read More

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford faces ethics charges that he broke state laws more than three dozen times by violating rules on airplane travel and campaign money, according to details of the allegations released Monday. Read More