Businesses have role to play in thwarting terror
Ultimately, it was the keen eye of a Texas gun shop clerk that helped authorities find an AWOL soldier who'd stashed bomb-making material in his nearby motel room for a planned attack on Fort Hood soldiers.
| Hot weather persists in central United States
Sticky heat was expected to smother much of the country's midsection in coming days as hotter than usual temperatures continued to roast parts of the Midwest and South, forecasters said on Sunday.
| Smallest med school in U.S. opens with 8 students
The University of Kansas hopes young doctors will be more willing to practice in small towns if they go to a rural medical school. The school will have the smallest four-year medical education site in the country when eight students begin classes Monday on a satellite campus. | When the balloons inflated, so did a man's career
When he was just a high school kid hawking balloons with Mickey Mouse's picture on them, Treb Heining never imagined that his affection for those little helium-filled orbs would blow up into anything more than a fun summertime job.
| Defense tries to spare life of Ohio serial killer
Defense attorneys are trying to spare the life of an ex-Marine convicted of killing 11 women by painting him as someone who suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental illnesses.
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