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DENVER (AP) — Police have arrested a boy in a shooting that critically injured a teenage boy outside of a Denver middle school. Police said Wednesday that the suspect is being held for investigation of aggravated assault. The shooting happened n...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Two Salt Lake City biodiesel executives linked to a polygamous group will stay in jail after prosecutors argued they could flee to Turkey if released ahead of trial in an alleged $511 million tax credit scheme. The men have a...

DENVER (AP) — A contentious proposal to tightly restrict the location of new oil and gas wells in Colorado attracted more than enough petition signatures to qualify for the November ballot, election officials said Wednesday. The measure, known as Ini...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is considering rewriting another Obama-era rule controlling hazardous emissions from coal-fired power plants, this one on mercury and other pollutants. Environmental Protection Agency spokeswoman Molly Block...

HOUSTON (AP) — Amid its ongoing recovery from Hurricane Harvey, the city of Houston announced Wednesday it's been accepted to become a member of a global initiative designed to help cities become more resilient to events like natural disasters, as w...

JACKSON HOLE, Wyo. (AP) — Federal officials have approved a natural gas field in Wyoming, and protesters say the decision will threaten roaming pronghorn. The Jackson Hole News and Guide reports the Bureau of Land Management issued a record of d...

Steady oil prices and the end of strong summer demand should start pushing gasoline prices down. The auto club AAA predicts that the national average will drop 14 cents to $2.70 a gallon this fall. The current average of $2.84 is up 46 cents from a...

TORONTO (AP) — It started with President Donald Trump's attacks on Canadian dairy farmers. Then Washington slapped tariffs on Canadian steel, citing national security. There was that disastrous G-7 summit in Quebec. Now it's a new North American f...

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The trade war with China is making life difficult for many farmers across Washington. The state's 1,900 wheat growers, who export the vast majority of their crop, are particularly hurt. But so are cherry growers who just harvest...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Jessica Eise, Purdue University and Natalie White, Purdue University (THE CONVERSATION) Leer en español. In Colombia’s co...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Planned Parenthood clinic in Kansas City's effort to provide medication-based abortions is moving forward. Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services Director Randall Williams in a Wednesday statement said the a...

It doesn't take a huge unpaid medical bill to make a collection agency come calling ... and calling. Researchers found in a study of credit reports that more than 2 percent of adults had medical bills under $200 sent to a collection agency. Over half...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Michelle Janikian, who writes about marijuana for publications like Herb, Playboy and Rolling Stone, says after she tells someone what she does for a living, she usually spends the rest of the conversation "trying to act so f...

CHICAGO (AP) — Learning disabilities and other special education needs are common in children born with opioid-related symptoms from their mother's drug use while pregnant, according to the first big U.S. study to examine potential long-term p...

HOUSTON (AP) — Texas Children's Hospital officials say they've fired a nurse after she posted information on social media about a boy who's suspected to have measles. The nurse working at the Houston hospital posted about the child's condition on a...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Google Maps wasn't waiting for the Senate. While lawmakers debated a proposal to rename a building after the late Sen. John McCain, Google Maps displayed "McCain Senate Office Building" on its website for several hours Wednesday. A...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A University of Missouri spokesman on Wednesday said a Missouri Democratic Party email seeking interns ended up in the inboxes of most faculty, staff and students at the Columbia campus, and that someone then used the e...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Top executives at Facebook and Twitter are set to appear before Congress next week as lawmakers continue probing efforts by Russia and other countries to influence social media platforms and meddle in U.S. elections. Twitter CEO J...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Thorsten Wuest, West Virginia University; David Romero, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, and Johan Stahre,...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI said Wednesday that it has no evidence Hillary Clinton's private email server was compromised even though President Donald Trump tweeted a news report that alleged the Chinese had hacked it. Trump tweeted Tuesday evening a...

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) — If a satellite, an asteroid or an old, dead rocket hurtles toward Earth, a telescope installed on Purdy Mesa is ready to help detect it and alert officials from around the world. Installers used a crane to carefully h...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A NASA spacecraft that explored Pluto has spotted its next target on the outskirts of our solar system. NASA this week revealed pictures taken by New Horizons earlier this month of a tiny icy world known as Ultima Thule (...

DALLAS (AP) — Beneath the open jaws of a crouching dinosaur, Briana Smith pressed her small rotating saw into a plaster cast. Inside the cast lay pieces of a creature that had roamed Alaska about 70 million years ago. The Dallas Morning News r...

PHOENIX (AP) — Thousands of people paid their respects to U.S. Sen. John McCain on Wednesday, standing for hours in the broiling Arizona sun before filing past the flag-draped casket that his tearful wife, Cindy, lovingly pressed her face against a...

TAOS, N.M. (AP) — The father of a 3-year-old boy found dead in a filthy New Mexico compound and his partner pleaded not guilty Wednesday to new charges of child abuse resulting in death after lesser charges were dismissed against them and other m...