NASA’s Valkyrie robots set table for human life on Mars
LOWELL, Mass. (AP) – Four sister robots built by NASA could be pioneers in the colonization of Mars, part of an advance construction team that…
LOWELL, Mass. (AP) – Four sister robots built by NASA could be pioneers in the colonization of Mars, part of an advance construction team that…
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania has seen one of the nation’s largest reductions in state funding for public colleges and universities since the start of…
CAIRO (AP) — An EgyptAir jetliner en route from Paris to Cairo with 66 people aboard swerved wildly in flight and crashed in the Mediterranean…
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) – A novice fossil collector’s lucky find in a remote Montana badlands more than a decade ago has turned out to be…
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — More than 4 million U.S. workers will become newly eligible for overtime pay under rules issued Wednesday by the Obama administration….
HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A bison calf that tourists loaded into their vehicle at Yellowstone National Park because they were concerned for its welfare…
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Amtrak engineer whose speeding train ran off the rails in Philadelphia last year was apparently distracted by word that a train…
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A police sergeant looking for speeders captured a fireball streaking across the sky on his dashboard camera early Tuesday. The bright…
FORT MCMURRAY, Alberta (AP) — Some 8,000 workers at oil camps north of the fire-ravaged Canadian city of Fort McMurray were ordered to evacuate late…
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The Pennsylvania Medical Society is launching an education effort to help physicians and patients find treatment alternatives to highly addictive…
WASHINGTON (AP) – A short-handed Supreme Court dodged but kept alive a legal challenge Monday from faith-based groups over the Obama administration’s rules for cost-free…
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — It’s 100,000 laps around Earth and counting for the International Space Station. The space station reached the orbital milestone —…
HANOVER (AP) – Kaela Dutterer is a head banger. More than a year ago, her mother, Heidi Dutterer, received concerned calls from her teacher about…
BOSTON (AP) — Researchers are returning to the boyhood home of slain civil rights leader Malcolm X to resume an archaeological dig. Archaeologist Joseph Bagley…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Public schools must permit transgender students to use bathrooms and locker rooms consistent with their chosen gender identity, according to an Obama…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress is on the verge of ordering young women to register for a military draft for the first time in history, touching…
HOLYOKE, Mass. (AP) — Officials in a New England town are working to protect more than 100 dinosaur footprints in a park that are nearly…
PITTSBURGH (AP) – A Pennsylvania man will spend 12 years in prison for sex trafficking four teenage runaways from Ohio who were found in his…
MIAMI (AP) — What are you more afraid of, the Zika virus, or a plan to kill the disease-carrying mosquitoes by releasing genetically engineered…
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Two things stand out about this week’s indictment of a white former South Carolina police officer on federal civil rights charges…
NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) — A low-profile block of aluminum zipped across a short stretch of what looked like railroad tracks Wednesday before crashing…
NEW YORK (AP) – The Food and Drug Administration will re-evaluate its definition of “healthy,” which could eventually change how a range of foods are…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Zero-tolerance policies are ineffective in combating bullying, an independent government advisory group says in urging schools to take a more preventative approach…
The Associated Press The teen accused in the April 2014 knife attack that left 20 classmates and a security guard injured at Franklin Regional High…
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Tornadoes destroyed homes, overturned vehicles and stripped the bark from trees as they churned across Oklahoma, part of a strong…
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) – Three University of North Dakota graduate students emerged Friday from their simulated space mission to Mars tired, happy and longing…
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Someone is holding onto the sole winning Powerball ticket that was sold in New Jersey and is worth $429.6 million, lottery…
EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Canadian officials fear a massive wildfire could double in size by the end of Saturday as they continue to evacuate residents…
BETHESDA, Md. (AP) — A suspect in three fatal shootings in the Washington, D.C., area was arrested Friday, police said. Police in the Maryland suburbs…
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Powerball jackpot has climbed to $415 million, making Saturday night’s prize the largest since a record $1.6 billion payout…
FORT MCMURRAY, Alberta (AP) — A massive wildfire raging in the Canadian province of Alberta has grown to 210,035 acres in size and officials would…
GETTYSBURG (AP) – Gettysburg National Military Park is taking ownership of some 3,000 items from an American Civil War museum in Philadelphia that’s been closed…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Researchers believe the ship that legendary explorer Captain James Cook used to sail around the world is still submerged somewhere in…
SEATTLE (AP) – The U.S. Supreme Court weighed in for the first time Monday on a $15-an-hour minimum wage, signaling it does not plan to…
HAVANA (TNS) — As passengers cheered, Carnival Corp.’s Fathom Adonia arrived at Havana harbor on Monday morning, officially re-establishing the U.S. cruise business in…
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Motorists will get to go faster, up to 70 mph, on nearly 1,000 miles of Pennsylvania highway once transportation crews complete…
GREENSBURG (AP) – Natural gas pipelines were being drained Saturday as authorities try to determine the cause of an explosion in western Pennsylvania that destroyed…
WASHINGTON (AP) — A CSX freight train derailed in Washington, D.C., on Sunday morning, sending several cars off the tracks and spilling hazardous material from…
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — A judge sentenced a Colorado woman who cut a baby from a stranger’s womb to 100 years in prison, including the…
GREENSBURG, Pa. (AP) — A natural gas pipeline exploded in a towering, roaring fireball Friday, destroying a home several hundred yards away, damaging at least…
NEW CASTLE (AP) – The state Department of Environmental Protection is investigation whether fracking contributed to two small earthquakes near a western Pennsylvania drilling operation….
PITTSBURGH (AP) – About 100 yards from the finish line of last year’s Pittsburgh Marathon, where a body pushed to its physical limit prepares for…
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Thunderstorms bearing hail as big as grapefruit and winds approaching hurricane strength lashed portions of the Great Plains on Tuesday,…
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton came away big winners in Pennsylvania’spresidential primaries Tuesday, as Democrats backed their party establishment’s choice for…
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — With flowers, candles and tears, Ukraine on Tuesday marked the 30th anniversary of the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, the…
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Marijuana growing operations were discovered at some of the crime scenes where officials said eight family members were killed in…
ERIE (AP) – An Ohio kidnapping suspect has been charged with criminal homicide following the death of a woman critically injured in a home invasion…
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — A solar-powered airplane landed in California on Saturday, completing a risky, three-day flight across the Pacific Ocean as part of…
PIKETON, Ohio (AP) – Eight members of a family, including a mother sleeping in a bed with her 4-day-old baby next to her, were fatally…
CONROE, Texas (AP) — Animal control officers have captured an apparently domesticated tiger that was spotted roaming a residential neighborhood in a South Texas city….