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The medical examiner’s office in Western Kentucky has been vacant nearly a year, forcing counties to pay more for autopsies. However, the Madisonville…

Enlisting nomadic African herders finally helped the world eliminate the cattle plague rinderpest. But the veterinarians, who had the power to shut the program down, had to be rewarded for success, too.

Chinese patrol boats turned back from the disputed Senkaku islands, which Japan nationalized earlier this week despite Beijing's long-running claim of sovereignty.

Negotiators for the Chicago teachers union and the public school system appear closer to a possible contract agreement, but the strike continues for a fifth day.

What happens at the Northeast Mycological Federation Foray? "Mushrooms only," according to attendee Gary Lincoff, an instructor at the New York Botanical Garden and author of The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms. Science Friday stopped by the conference for mushroom talk, mushroom crafts, mushroom eats and a mushroom hunt.

The royal family was roiled by a another nudity scandal just weeks ago, when Prince Harry was photographed in the buff.

Part of Curiosity's drill may have been exposed to microbes on Earth before the rover launched to Mars. Catharine Conley, NASA's planetary protection officer, explains how the slip-up violated agency procedures, but why it likely won't impact Curiosity's science objectives.

Nearly one in ten Kentuckians doesn’t have a bank account. That’s one of the findings in a new report issued by the Federal Deposit Insurance…

Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan used an appearance at an annual gathering of his party's social conservatives Friday to pointedly criticize President Obama's foreign policy record and to testify to his own Catholic faith and opposition to abortion.

President Obama said that the four Americans had not only embraced the American ideal, they lived it.