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Sandusky's charity began the process of closing on Friday.

In the debate on hydraulic fracturing's safety record, the back and forth between industry groups, activist, and academic studies creates a lot of noise for the average person to sort out. But when a university is accused of misrepresenting its own data, that makes understanding the controversial drilling technique even more challenging.

With the approaching presidential election likely to serve as a referendum on the economy, Mitt Romney appears poised to dominate white voters still fighting to weather the economic downturn.

The U.S. Senate on Thursday showed near-unanimous support for a bill that helps fund the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, a regulatory powerhouse with sweeping influence over the foods Americans eat and the medicines they take. The bill, which passed by a vote of 96 to 1, aims to speed approval of new drugs and devices and ensure food safety.

The Ohio House on Thursday is expected to vote on a bill that would bolster the state's rules on hydraulic fracturing

Police have arrested a man identified as Pedro Hernandez in connection with the 1979 disappearance and murder of Etan Patz..

Ohio representatives this week will vote on a set of new natural gas drilling regulations, including chemical disclosure laws, that opponents say favor natural gas drillers.

The Saints and Sinners stage at Bamboozle housed many acts this weekend, but one performance in particular stands well above the rest. Sundays Texas In July set was everything one can expect a Bamboozle performance to be. The metalcore band hailing from Ephrata, Pennsylvania not only had an impressive crowd watching their set, but had people flocking to other stages stop in their tracks along the way to take in their performance.

The Obama administration is increasingly under fire this month for its policy on the nation's coal sector.

The Karl Rove-backed Super PAC Crossroads GPS is releasing a basketball-themed anti-Obama attack ad to begin airing in swing states on Wednesday.

Researchers found that more than 2,000 defendants who were falsely convicted of serious crimes have been exonerated in the past 23 years.

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The state of Vermont became on Wednesday the first in the United States to ban the controversial natural gas drilling technique known as hydraulic fracturing or fracking.

John Waters was hitchhiking through Ohio when indie rock band Here We Go Magic picked up the Hairspray director - and the Brooklyn-based band acted like it was no big deal.

A powerful conservative advocacy organization is about to unleash a $25 million advertising assault in ten different states, seeking to highlight inconsistencies in President Obama's record.

The United States foreign aid program that sends billions of dollars to African countries for HIV treatment and prevention has cut the number of people dying for any reason in those nations, a new study suggests.

A study released on Tuesday by the University of Buffalo's Shale Resources and Society Institute suggests that Pennsylvania is getting better at regulating natural gas drilling, and that the state has a regulatory model that New York could implement as it considers opening its own doors to high-volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing.

An ad touting the benefits of its multiple herbicide-resistant Enlist corn tells viewers it won't exacerbate the growing epidemic of superweeds.

Scientists have discovered what they believe to be some of the oldest known engravings and artworks, dating back some 37,000 years -- and some of them are possibly pornographic, according to a study published Monday.

A former U.S. Environmental Protection Agency administrator who compared the agency's regulatory policy to that of Roman crucifixions will provide testimony on Capitol Hill next month.

Deutsche Bank is as German as lederhosen, sauerkraut, beer and the Autobahn.