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DALLAS — When kids all across the country return to school Tuesday, some will see a welcoming message from President Barack Obama and some won't.

LOS ANGELES — Fire bosses declared progress early Friday in taming the 226-square-mile arson fire north of Los Angeles that has led to a homicide investigation into the deaths of two firefighters.

WASHINGTON — The poverty rate among older Americans could be nearly twice as high as the traditional 10 percent level, according to a revision of a half-century-old formula for calculating medical costs and geographic variations in the cost of livin

LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. — A Gwinnett County teenager's friends came to her rescue after she texted for help during an attack.

BALTIMORE — Attorneys say a GPS ankle bracelet worn by a teenager accused of shooting a 5-year-old girl in Baltimore provides an alibi for the teen.

You insure your car, your home, your health, your life. Why not your child's expensive schooling?

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina's only Black Republican legislator is running for lieutenant governor.

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama confronts a tortuous September, and it’s not just the divisive political fight over health care.

On Aug. 11, 2009, Arthur Johnson Jr., 18, of O'Fallon, Ill., shows off the world title in "multipercussion" he won at the the 2009 Drum Corps International championship in Indianapolis.

DETROIT — It took years for a family of prominent American Shiite scholars to build a specialized seminary that would train Americans and Europeans to lead mosques in the West.