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A soon-to-be-implemented policy for scientists who are permitted to conduct research in national parks will give the National Park Service a share of any profits from their work.

A Georgia woman has been arrested for having four children in a filthy home. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that an arrest warrant says 37-year-old Casey Abigail Robinson of Acworth faces charges of contributing to the deprivation of a minor because of the condition of the home.

AUSTRALIAN scientists are working to breed a sheep that belches less, as they look for ways to reduce harmful methane emissions from the country's woolly flocks, a researcher said on Sunday.

Agriculture Minister Brendan Smith today witnessed first hand the devastating impact of the recent floods on farmers in Co Galway.

Monday is the last day for Wisconsin residents to sign up for the list that bans telemarketing calls that goes into effect Jan.

Naked mole rats don't get cancer. They shrug off brushes with acid and age so well, some are older than the college-aged researchers handling them.

Singapore - A strong earthquake measuring 6.1 was measured near an uninhabited island north of New Zealand on Saturday, the United States Geological Survey said.

Older Americans who were raised on stories of the Great Depression and acquired lifelong habits of thrift now find themselves crowding soup kitchens and food pantries in greater numbers for the first time after seeing retirement funds, second jobs and nest eggs wiped out by recession.

A new dinosaur park located near Laurel, Maryland hasn't been open very long, but already one of its visitor's finds is headed to the Smithsonian.

Virginia Tech's Seismological Observatory says a small earthquake that struck central Virginia prompted numerous reports of weak to light shaking but it didn't cause any damage.

MADISON - The state has issued a consumer alert about Blue Marble Family Farm dairy products because it may not be properly pasteurized.

How could it be true in the land of plenty, in the midst of an obesity epidemic, skeptics wondered.

With the best of the crop off to market, growers say this year it's cheaper to leave leftovers on the trees than to pick and sell them for juice.

The bluish haze that has hung over the Third Street Diner's bar and booths for decades finally lifts next month as a new anti-smoking law takes hold in Virginia, a huge shift for a state whose tobacco habit dates to the Jamestown settlement some 400 years ago.

Authorities in Cleveland have asked a leading anthropologist and a forensic artist to help identify the remains of an 11th woman found inside the home of a suspected serial killer.

Gov. Jim Doyle has issued an executive order giving farmers another month to transport heavy harvest loads.

A strong earthquake struck off El Salvador's Pacific coast Thursday, sending people running from buildings in this Central American nation and in neighboring Guatemala.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Bill Golden survived more than 20 years in the U.S. Army and another 30 in law enforcement.

Stuttgart-based Riceland Foods Inc. says its sales for the fiscal year are up by 8 percent from the year before.

"The history of the Milky Way is encoded in its oldest fragments, globular clusters and other systems of stars that have witnessed the entire evolution of our galaxy," says Francesco Ferraro from the University of Bologna, lead author of a paper appearing in the November 26 issue of the journal Nature.