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ALBION, Pa. – Inmates and staff at a northwestern Pennsylvania prison are using portable toilets and trucked in water after a leak drained the facility of more than 3 million gallons. Water supplies to the State Correctional Institution at Albion have been cut off since a leak was discovered Sunday …

MILWAUKEE – An Ohio cheesemaker won the United States Championship Cheese with a 200-pound Swiss wheel. Guggisberg Cheese in Millersburg, Ohio, beat out 1,892 entries from 28 states. Out of a possible 100 points, the Swiss wheel scored 98.496 in the final round of judging Thursday. First runner-up was a …

ST. LOUIS – Pornographic magazine publisher Larry Flynt is persevering in his legal fight to publicize details about Missouri’s execution methods. This follows the November 2013 execution of the white supremacist gunman who left him paralyzed. A federal district court judge denied Flynt’s attempt to intervene in a 2013 lawsuit …

MADISON, Wis. – Gov. Scott Walker is following through on his campaign promise to require drug testing for public aid recipients in Wisconsin and limiting how long they can receive benefits. The potential 2016 Republican presidential candidate on Thursday announced more details about those plans that he first proposed during …

ABERDEEN, S.D. – Andrew Fischer was a stock clerk earning less than $100 a week in 1963 when a doctor explained why his pregnant wife’s belly had grown so large: She was about to give birth to five babies, who would become the first known surviving quintuplets born in the …

ST. LOUIS – Federal lawsuits allege that jails in the St. Louis County towns of Ferguson and Jennings operate essentially as modern-day debtors’ prisons, where minor traffic offenses can lead to extended periods behind bars. Two lawsuits were filed Sunday on behalf of people who have spent time in jail …

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Snow falling off a Boston-area ice rink roof buried a man and pummeled four other people Wednesday as they were walking on a path near the rink, police said. The man was partially dug out by his brother and a rink employee before firefighters arrived to free …

SOUTH BEND, Ind. – The priest who transformed the University of Notre Dame into an academic power during his 35 years in charge while also serving as an adviser to popes and presidents has died. University spokesman Paul Browne says the Rev. Theodore Hesburgh died Thursday night at age 97. …

ST. LOUIS – An appeals court says porn publisher Larry Flynt can join a lawsuit seeking to force Missouri to disclose more details of its execution methods. A three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis issued the ruling Tuesday. It reverses a lower court …

MONTPELIER, Vt. – Supporters of a proposed ban on the sale of ivory and rhinoceros horns in Vermont are upset by a move to insert exemptions into the legislation for old pianos and other antiques. Vermont activist Ashley McAvey told a state legislative committee Thursday that permitting any sales of …