
Nov 15 - By Gregg Bell, AP Sports Writer
Kellen Moore grew up in sparsely populated central Washington. Now he is out here in Idaho, still way off Broadway.
Oct 21 - By Associated Press
The government now hopes to have about 50 million doses of swine flu vaccine out by mid-November and 150 million in December.
Oct 12 - By Associated Press
Michigan's governor has signed legislation requiring farm animals confined in cages to have enough room to turn around and fully extend their limbs.
Oct 5 - By Melissa Eddy, Associated Press Writers
Germany's most popular women's magazine announced Monday that it is banning professional models from its pages in favor of "real women" in an attempt to combat an unhealthy standard of rail-thin beauty that it says has isolated its readers.
Sep 30 - By Geoff Mulvihill, Associated Press Writer
For 92 years, being sent abroad or brought home by the Army has often meant passing through the New Jersey installation known first as Camp Dix, then Fort Dix.
Sep 21 - By Associated Press
U.S. health officials have ordered more swine flu vaccine — bringing the nation's eventual total to 251 million doses.
Sep 20 - By Lauran Neergaard, AP Medical Writer
More than 35 million people around the world are living with Alzheimer's disease or other types of dementia, says the most in-depth attempt yet to assess the brain-destroying illness — and it's an ominous forecast as the population grays.

Aug 4 - By Nigel Duara, Associated Press Writer
In small towns, one more cop really does make a difference.
Aug 3 - By Associated Press
In an Aug. 2 story about new forms of television advertising, The Associated Press erroneously reported, based on information from Cablevision Systems Corp., that viewers who tune into the Disney Video on Demand channel watch for an average 15 minutes. The cable company later said viewers spend an average seven to 10 minutes on the channel.
Aug 2 - By Deborah Yao, AP Business Writers
Coming soon to your TV: More advertising, in places you might not expect.

Jul 27 - By Diaa Hadid, Associated Press Writer
Police order a lingerie shop to hide its scantily clad mannequins. A judge warns female lawyers to wear head scarves in court. Beach patrols break up groups of singles and make men wear shirts.

Jul 27 - By Dionne Walker, Associated Press Writer
The nation's bulldozer attack on crime and poverty will soon make Atlanta — home of the first public housing development — the first major city to eliminate all of its large housing projects.

Jul 12 - By Peter James Spielmann, Associated Press Writer
War is hell, it's long been said. But just how hellish it can be is a more difficult question, judging from disputes among researchers at several highly respected international peace institutes. They cannot agree on whether war is becoming more or less deadly — or even on how to count the dead.
Jul 7 - By Andrew Vanacore, AP Business Writer
After more than five years officially in testing mode, Gmail is finally graduating from "beta."
Jul 2 - By Associated Press
For every 100 girls born to Vietnamese families, there are 112 boys born, a disparity in the sex ratio that has been rapidly increasing in recent years, an official said Thursday.

Jun 14 - By Bruce Schreiner, Associated Press Writer
Papa John's is betting the store on keeping its eye on the pie — even as two larger competitors load their plates with pasta with pasta or sandwiches to boost sales in the slumping economy.

Jun 11 - By JESSE WASHINGTON, AP National Writer
Crazies. Lone nut jobs. Isolated loonies. Those are frequent descriptions of people like James von Brunn, the 88-year-old white supremacist accused of opening fire at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and killing a black guard.

Jun 11 - By Associated Press
Call it the luck of Marley.
Jun 9 - By Associated Press
The names of 61 boys who died decades ago at a Michigan school for orphans and troubled youth have been engraved on a cemetery monument.

May 15 - By Jason Straziuso, Associated Press Writer
Strategically buried in the middle of dirt roads, packed in culverts and attached to trip wires, a heightened hidden danger awaits the thousands of U.S. troops pouring into Afghanistan to fight a tenacious Taliban.

May 4 - By The Associated Press, Only on msnbc.com
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Apr 26 - By Anita Snow, Associated Press Writer
Some Americans are eagerly awaiting the moment when they can make legal trips to Cuba despite the U.S. trade and travel embargo — and all it would take is a stroke of President Barack Obama's pen.
Apr 22 - By Daniel Woolls, Associated Press Writer
Spain grabbed world headlines a decade ago by indicting Chile's former dictator Augusto Pinochet, and has since probed alleged atrocities as far away as Tibet and Rwanda.

Apr 13 - By Will Weissert, Associated Press Writer
Fidel Castro said Tuesday the Obama administration's softening of sanctions is "positive although minimal," and criticized it for leaving in place the embargo that bars most trade and travel between the two countries.
Apr 7 - By Kristen Wyatt, Associated Press Writer
American schoolchildren need to be in class more — six days a week, at least 11 months a year — if they are to compete with students abroad, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Tuesday.