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NEW YORK – About a quarter of the nation’s TV stations cut off their analog signals Tuesday, causing sets to go dark in households that were not prepared for digital television despite two years of warnings about the transition. Though most viewers were ready — and people with cable or …

MALVERN, Pa. – Researchers may have discovered a mass grave for nearly five dozen 19th century Irish immigrants who died of cholera weeks after coming to Pennsylvania to build a railroad. Historians at Immaculata University have known for years about the 57 immigrants who died in August 1832, but could …

Thirteen Marines were injured after their three tour buses crashed near Camp Lejeune Thursday morning. Marine Corps Capt. Clark Carpenter said a bus driver was critically injured and air lifted to a hospital after the accident in Jones County, in eastern North Carolina. He said none of the Marines was …

ANKARA, Turkey – A U.S.-made attack helicopter went down in central Turkey on Saturday, killing two pilots, an official said. The Cobra helicopter gunship crashed near the town of Pinarbasi, said Gov. Mevlut Bilici of the province of Kayseri. The bodies of the soldiers were taken to a local military …

You’ve been exercising your butt off for weeks and not seeing any results from your workout. Maybe it’s your form, said Stacy Berman, a New York City personal trainer and founder of Stacy’s Boot Camp and Infinite Balance Yoga Fusion. “If you’re not in the proper position, you’re probably not …

BEEBE, Ark. – A media specialist in the Beebe School District has resigned after being charged with having sex with a student. White County prosecutors charged 36-year-old Rebecca Sue Harvey with first-degree sexual assault last Wednesday. Beebe Superintendent Belinda Shook says Harvey worked with third- and fourth-graders and would not …

A Brazilian woman survived being shot in the chest Saturday by robbers because cash she had stashed in her bra absorbed the impact of the bullet, the Telegraph reported. Ivonete Pereira, 58, was riding a bus in the northeast Brazilian state of Bahia when it was held up by armed …

BAGHDAD – A bomber wearing an Iraqi military uniform struck a U.S. military delegation visiting the mayor of violence-wracked Baqouba on Monday, injuring at least eight American soldiers and nine others. Police officials claimed the attacker was disguised as a soldier — a tactic used in the past to pass …

NEW ORLEANS – A poorly designed tax system overhaul to make the current income tax more like a consumption tax (search) would be “the worst of all worlds,” experts told a presidential commission Wednesday. Bob Greenstein, founder and executive director of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (search), told …

MONACO – Prince Rainier III (search) of Monaco, who was hospitalized two weeks ago with a chest infection, has been moved to the intensive care unit, the palace announced Tuesday as his children rushed to his bedside. After a marked earlier improvement, “a recurring pulmonary infection required that the prince …