Police: Pa. teen plotted to bomb sleeping family

A suburban Pittsburgh teenager tried to kill his sleeping family by placing homemade chlorine bombs while they slept, police said. 1223417524

Alum gives Harvard $125M for bioengineering center

A Harvard Business School alumnus has given the university its largest individual donation ever - $125 million to start a bioengineering institute, the school announced Tuesday. 1223413914

Former contractor pleads guilty to Iraq fuel theft

A former Army contractor pleaded guilty Tuesday to stealing nearly $40 million worth of jet and diesel fuel from a U.S. Army base in Iraq and selling it on the black market. 1223414822

Woman to return to prison in human smuggling case

A woman who spent nearly three years in prison for her role in the nation's deadliest human smuggling attempt will return to prison for up to an additional four years, a judge ruled.

Polygamous sect sues to regain control of trust

Members of a polygamous church are suing to regain control of a property trust, claiming court reforms since 2005 have stripped it of its constitutional rights. 1223416011

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New Jersey Gov. John S. Corzine speaks during a news conference on the boardwalk in Atlantic City, Monday, Oct. 6, 2008. Corzine said the Garden State is tripling the amount of wind power it plans to use by 2020 to 3,000 megawatts. That would be 13 percent of New Jersey's total energy, enough to power between 800,000 to just under 1 million homes.

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NJ: We'll become a world leader in wind power

New Jersey is powering up an ambitious plan to become a world leader in the use of wind-generated energy.

Judge: Calif. must pay for prison health care

A federal judge has scolded California officials for failing to provide the billions of dollars a court-appointed receiver says is needed to upgrade the state's prison health care system.

Arctic quake sends waves through Nevada

Scientists say what appeared to be an earthquake in northeastern Nevada was actually a seismograph picking up waves from an earlier quake in the Arctic Ocean.