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Ralls Corp, a private firm, acquired four wind farm projects near a US naval facility in Oregon earlier this year.

Sol Luis Fontanes Olivo wept and said he was ashamed of his actions as he was sentenced Monday to the maximum sentence of 10 years in prison.

NEW DELHI (AP):Police say 17 people died when the bus they were travelling in plunged into a river in western India.The bus was crossing the Purna river in the Buldhana district of Maharashtra state yesterday morning when the accident took place.

SAN JUAN (AP):A man on a flight from Spain to Puerto Rico is facing criminal charges for scuffling with a pilot after crew members accused him of stealing their iPad.An FBI agent says in an affidavit that...

JOHANNESBURG (AP):South Africa's labour unrest spread yesterday from its mines to the transport sector, and the country's transport union said more than 20,000 road freight employees are on strike demanding a pay increase.An extended transport strike...

US forecasters say Miriam is currently a Category two hurricane churning well off Mexico's Baja California peninsula.

MOSCOW (AP):Five teenage Russian orphans, their teacher and her husband were all killed when a speeding car driven by a drunken driver crashed into a Moscow bus stop, the Interfax news agency reported on the weekend, citing city officials....

PRAGUE (AP):Police have arrested two people suspected in a wave of methanol poisoning that has killed at least 25 people in the Czech Republic in the past two weeks, officials said yesterday.State prosecutor Roman Kafka said the two...

WASHINGTON (AP):The most partisan, least productive Congress in memory has skipped out of Washington for the campaign trail.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP):In a presidential race seemingly frozen in place for months, the advantage has shifted towards President Barack Obama after a series of miscues by Mitt Romney, punctuated by the Republican challenger's comments about people who pay no income tax.

General Motors is recalling nearly 474,000 Chevrolet, Pontiac and Saturn cars to fix a condition that can cause cars to roll away unexpectedly.

CERRITOS, California (AP):While the man behind an anti-Islam movie that ignited violence across the Middle East would likely face swift punishment in his native Egypt for making the film, in America the government is in the thorny position of protecting...