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Last night Zero Hedge obtained some interesting documents from the CDC web site. They contain blank 'forced quarantine' orders from Iowa and Florida regarding novel H1N1 -- including quarantine to a 'secure detention center'-- which appear to be recent -- dated April 2009.

The beating of 12-year-old boy by a group of classmates at a Southern California middle school may be linked to a Facebook posting encouraging kids to target redheads, authorities say.

Early signs suggest the number of suicides in the U.S. crept up during the worst recession in decades, according to a Wall Street Journal survey of states that account for about 40 percent of the U.S. population.

Nov. 22: A new poll says that Americans will be looking to spend less and get more this holiday shopping season.

AMES, Iowa - The sign sits propped on a wooden chair, inviting all comers: "Ask an Atheist." Whenever a student gets within a few feet, Anastasia Bodnar waves and smiles, trying to make a good first impression before eyes drift down to a word many Americans rank down there with "socialist." Bodnar is the happy face of atheism at Iowa State ...

Hundreds of people suffering from mental illness and addiction will go untreated if the state-run Norman Alcohol and Drug Treatment Center is closed, mental health professionals say.

Moore police say a man was struck and killed by a train while he was lying on the tracks.

Corrections officials say several inmates were hurt after disturbances erupted at three prisons in Oklahoma.

As if small businesses needed another reason not to hire, consider their latest financial burden: The cost of rising unemployment itself.

Victory Christian Pastor Billy Joe Daugherty passed away Sunday morning. Church pastors announced at early morning services that Daugherty died at 4:40 a.m. The founder of Victory Christian Church, Pastor Billy Joe Daugherty's battle with cancer took a turn for the worse on Friday as he fought an infection at Houston's M.D. Anderson Hospital.

Despite a climbing unemployment rate both nationally and locally, Oklahoma added nearly 8,800 jobs last month, which is among the highest in the country.

Barnes & Noble Inc said on Friday it had sold out of its newly-launched Nook electronic readers due to high demand -- a pre-holiday miscalculation that analysts said could boost sales of rival Amazon.com Inc's market leading Kindle.

Oklahoma City police are seeking the public's to find a man accused of impersonating a police officer.

A former Marine faces six counts of first-degree murder in the fatal shootings of four people whose bodies were found inside a burning house.

Scientists in Norway have identified a mutated form of the swine flu virus that is raising concern because it was found in two patients who died of the flu and a third who was severely ill with the disease, officials announced Friday. The Norwegian Institute of Public Health said the mutation "could possibly make the virus more prone to infect deeper in the airways and thus cause more severe disease," such as pneumonia.

At the edge of this town, at the end of a long driveway, lives Lawrie Covey, who's at the end of her rope.

Here are a few things bargain-hungry consumers need to know before they hit stores before dawn the day after Thanksgiving.

Procter & Gamble is recalling Vicks Sinex nasal spray in the United States, Britain and Germany after finding it contained bacteria, the company said.

Investigators have identified a dead body found in the trunk of a burning car on November 15 in Norman.

Police have arrested a man wanted in a stabbing outside an Oklahoma bar. William "Bill" Jones, 46, was arrested for assault with a deadly weapon after police say he and woman pushed a baby stroller into the Turf Bar in Enid Tuesday.