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Some of the nation's largest states are questioning whether the Obama administration's offer to let them escape certain mandates of the No Child Left Behind law is a helping hand to improve education or a means to impose more federal control.

Some of the nation's largest states are questioning whether the Obama administration's offer to let them escape certain mandates of the No Child Left Behind law is a helping hand to improve education or a means to impose more federal control.

In a long-awaited decision on the question of gay marriage in California, the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Tuesday found the state's Proposition 8 ballot initiative unconstitutional .

An Amherst man accused of carrying out a hit on a police informant in 2003 in Pennsylvania has been convicted of murder and conspiracy charges by a jury in Washington County, Pa.[caption id="attachment_108004" align="alignleft" width="131" caption="Duncan"][/caption]The charges Michael "Cleveland Mike" Duncan, 35, was convicted of carry a mandatory ... (more)

Two men have been convicted in the murder almost a decade ago of a western Pennsylvania man who was an informant responsible for the arrest of one of the defendants on drug charges.