By Jenna Ross
Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
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MINNEAPOLIS — The students trekked toward the sunset, feeling the strange crunch of prairie grass recently shorn by a burn. They waved off June...
By Larry Gordon
Los Angeles Times
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LOS ANGELES — The rise in tuition at public colleges slowed this year to the smallest increase in more than three decades, although financial aid has...
By Meredith Blake
Los Angeles Times
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NEW YORK — Don Yelton, a local Republican official in North Carolina, has been forced to resign following an appearance this week on “The Daily Show...
WASHINGTON — The nation stepped back from the brink of default Wednesday as Congress approved a bill to reopen the federal government and raise the debt ceiling.
President Barack Obama signed the...
By John M. Glionna
Los Angeles Times
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JEFFREY CITY, Wyo. — On a lazy Sunday afternoon in this forgotten high-plains outpost, Byron Seeley decides to kick up a little dust. It’s his 44th...
By Sophia Solis
Cronkite News Service
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They may be small, slow and cute for now, but within a few weeks the baby Nile crocodiles that fit in Russ Johnson’s hands will be downright dangerous.
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By Daniela Altimari
The Hartford Courant
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HARTFORD, Conn. — Lying in repose beneath the rotunda of the state Capitol is an honor usually reserved for ex-governors and other prominent officials....
By Michael Muskal and Jenny Deam
Los Angeles Times
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DENVER — Four days of rain have turned parts of Colorado into a flash-flood zone as rising waters have brought death, destruction and...
By Larry Gordon
Los Angeles Times
SAN FRANCISCO — On the eve of confirming Janet Napolitano as the next university president, University of California regents on Wednesday faced the type of difficult...
SAN CRISTOBAL, Mexico — Former President Vicente Fox grew up on a farm here in rural Guanajuato, one of Mexico’s most conservative states. He is the kind of guy who wears big belt buckles, collects...
CAIRO — With the unprecedented arrests of the top and mid-levels of the Muslim Brotherhood, the secretive organization through which Mohammed Morsi ascended to the presidency before he was ousted this...
SIOUX CITY| As the national cancer study recruits over 300,000 volunteers from across the country, almost 1,000 are from Sioux City, Iowa. The American Cancer Society reported that Iowa’s number one...
