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(Reuters) - Two sheriff's deputies were shot dead and two wounded in LaPlace, Louisiana on Thursday by an attacker armed with an assault weapon, police said. The gunman shot one St. John Parish deputy while he was directing traffic in an off-site parking lot for the Valero Energy Corp's St. Charles refinery, Sheriff Mike …

(Reuters) - Penn State will host a conference on child sexual abuse featuring abuse survivors Sugar Ray Leonard and Elizabeth Smart in the wake of the child molestation scandal that rocked the university and its esteemed football program. The two-day event in October will bring together some of the top U.S. experts on child …

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City has long been a destination of choice for young up-and-comers, but a new population analysis suggests that, at least for the last decade, the Big Apple has not had the same appeal as a place to grow older. Since 1990, New York has seen an influx of adults aged 20 to 34. But many of those …

CHICAGO (Reuters) - After weeks of relentless heat stress from the worst U.S. drought in more than half a century, deteriorating corn and soybean crops were getting some relief by light rains this week, an agricultural meteorologist said Thursday. But the shift in weather came too late to help much of the corn crop which …

MIAMI (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Gordon formed over the Atlantic Ocean on Thursday and was expected to become a hurricane by the weekend before nearing the Azores Islands in about four days, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. Gordon was centered about 640 miles east of Bermuda late Thursday morning and was moving …

(Reuters) - The price of prime farmland in the drought-hit U.S. Midwest grain belt rose 1 percent in the second quarter, the smallest quarterly increase in two years, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago said on Thursday. But while the district's worst drought in nearly a quarter century will dramatically shrink soybean …

(Reuters) - When Wendy Kopp, just out of Princeton, founded Teach for America in 1989, she dreamed of recruiting 500 elite college graduates to teach the nation's neediest children. "My dear Miss Kopp," a college advisor told her, "you are quite evidently deranged." Kopp pressed on, and this fall Teach for America will …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has added his name to the long list of people who believe we should measure prosperity in terms of happiness and life satisfaction, instead of just dollars and data. In a recent speech before a group of international researchers, Bernanke talked about the difference …