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WASHINGTON – Monday brought some closure to Bernard Madoff’s victims, who were swindled out of $65 billion in the largest recorded financial fraud — a scheme that was exposed in part because the plummeting stock market led investors to demand repayment of money that was long gone. With Madoff on …

MIDDLETOWN, Pa. – A small amount of radiation has been detected in a reactor building at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in central Pennsylvania. About 150 employees were sent home after the radiation was detected Saturday afternoon, but officials say there is no public health risk. Exelon Nuclear …

The louder America speaks, the less this administration seems to listen. The tribe has spoken clearly on health care: 73 percent want this bill scrapped; 52 percent are against the reforms altogether. President Obama came out Wednesday and said he’s just going forward and using reconciliation. But America opposes use …

Good news: The president has saved the economy! Happy days are here again! Yes, the unemployment rate dropped to 10 percent — that’s a 0.2 percent drop. And President Obama is giddy about the news. Here he was Friday in Pennsylvania talking about it: (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: …

Diabetics with stable heart disease do just as well taking drugs alone as getting quick angioplasty or bypass surgery to open blocked heart arteries, U.S. researchers said on Sunday. They said patients advised to have angioplasty and a heart stent to restore blood flow and ease chest pain could safely …

TULSA, Okla. – A spokeswoman for ExpressJet Airlines says a Continental Express jet with 53 people on board has made an emergency landing in Oklahoma. Kristy Nicholas says Flight 2916 diverted to Tulsa International Airport just after 9:30 a.m. Monday after the three-member crew said they were having a “pressurization …

HONOLULU – Comforted by the U.S. military’s missile defense systems, Hawaii residents doubt a North Korean missile would light up the clear island sky. But that doesn’t mean they aren’t worried that a long-range missile could be launched in their direction. Japanese media have reported the North Koreans appear to …

The EU Naval Force says it has handed over 43 Somalis abandoned at sea by their human smugglers to the United Nations refugee agency in the Horn of Africa nation of Djibouti. The EU force says a ship from the Netherlands rescued the castaways on Oct. 24 in the Gulf …

YUBA CITY, Calif. – Investigators are probing whether a severed human leg found in a rural area of Sutter County may be related to a nearby missing-person case. A group of people playing paintball found the unclothed limb of a white male adult on Sunday afternoon. It was in an …

DICKINSON, North Dakota – Authorities say preliminary autopsy results show drowning as the cause of death for three North Dakota college softball players found dead inside a sport utility vehicle that sunk in a rural farm pond. Stark County Sheriff Clarence Tuhy said Friday that two of the women’s bodies …