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FREDONIA, N.Y. – With an escaped convict suspected of killing one trooper and wounding two others still on the run, the first day of school in rural western New York Tuesday meant recess in the classroom, no outdoor sports practice and armed state troopers searching vehicles. The normal rhythms of …

NORFOLK, Va. – Bones discovered four years ago at the site of America’s first permanent English settlement could be those of Jamestown’s unsung founder, a knight or a captain. A tooth analysis did not rule out that the skeleton is, as Jamestown researchers had theorized, that of Capt. Bartholomew Gosnold, …

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Iran has invited the Iraqi and Syrian presidents to Tehran for a weekend summit with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to hash out ways to cooperate in curbing the runaway violence that has taken Iraq to the verge of civil war and threatens to spread through the region, four key …