Updated: Mon, May 20, 2013

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The charitable arm of the New York Bar Association is making a $300,000 grant to fund a program that helps disabled veterans start businesses and another that supports research in technology, innovation and competition law. The New York Bar Foundation says the grant is the...

Updated: Mon, May 20, 2013

MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — Selling an island where scientists have experimented with infectious animal diseases since the dawn of the Cold War was going to be difficult enough. But it now appears any prospective buyer won't be able to do much with Plum Island anyway. As the federal government...

Updated: Mon, May 20, 2013

The Carolinas News Editor is Tim Rogers. The breaking news supervisor is Emery Dalesio, who can be reached at 919-510-8937. For technical support, please call the AP's Services and Technology Department in Raleigh at 919-881-9974. CHARLOTTE-EAT-INS CHARLOTTE — In the spring of 1963, a...

Updated: Mon, May 20, 2013

Two men have been arrested in the killing of a teenage boy over an iPad in Las Vegas, police said Sunday. Jacob Dismont, 18, and Michael Solid, 21, were booked Saturday into the Clark County jail on charges of open murder, robbery and conspiracy to commit robbery. According to investigators,...

Updated: Sun, May 19, 2013

RENO, Nev. (AP) — A nonnative snail has turned up in the Truckee River in Nevada for the first time, and wildlife officials are hoping it doesn't harm the river's trout population or spread to Lake Tahoe. Nevada Department of Wildlife officials said tests have confirmed the presence of at...

Updated: Sun, May 19, 2013

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Updated: Sun, May 19, 2013

SEATTLE (AP) — Scientists are eager for access to information from a quarter-billion dollar lab at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean that they hope will teach them about climate change, earthquakes and even the origins of life on Earth and other planets. The $239 million National Science...

Updated: Sun, May 19, 2013

BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan (AP) — With Afghan troops increasingly leading combat operations on the ground, the Afghan Air Force's fledgling helicopter fleet based in Kabul has learned new techniques to support them from the air. The U.S. Army's 101st Combat Aviation Brigade started a new...

Updated: Sun, May 19, 2013

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Steve Butz had heard the local lore about "Indian Ovens" for years, but it wasn't until this past winter that he hiked to a ridge near the Vermont state line to examine the unusual geologic formation stained black by soot from fires of uncertain origin and purpose. That...

Updated: Sun, May 19, 2013

In this photo taken Tuesday, May 7, 2013, senior electrical engineer Mike Harrington steps between cylinders made of titanium that will house deep sea scientific instruments, at the Applied Physics Lab at the University of Washington in Seattle. Engineers at the lab are building and assembling...