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It sounds like something out of a novel, but Adam Suffridge and Samantha Swindler, two young journalists actually did it: take down the untouchable sheriff of Whitley County, Ky., using their pens that led to the sheriff's indictment on extortion, distributing drugs and money laundering and plenty along with death threats aimed their way.

Junior Seau is dead at age 43.

Free agent quarterback Vince Young is visiting the Buffalo Bills on Wednesday.

Nearly five months after his unexpected surge into contention for the Republican presidential nomination, Newt Gingrich is set to suspend his campaign and endorse Mitt Romney.

More and more babies are born with signs of withdrawals from painkiller addiction, according to a new study.

Chesapeake Energy Corp will find an independent, non-executive chairman to replace Aubrey McClendon, who will retain his position as chief executive officer, the natural gas producer said on Tuesday.

Tennessee's House of Representatives has passed a bill updating the state's abstinence-based sex education law to specifically aim at the prevention of gateway sexual activity. Senate Bill 3310 defines gateway sexual activity as sexual contact encouraging an individual to engage in a non-abstinent behavior, though the term sexual contact is not defined in the bill.

The 2012 NFL Draft is over, and it's now time to offer up some grades. What teams did well? What teams failed? Read all about it with our 2012 NFL Draft Grades.

If the U.S. presidential election was held today, President Barack Obama could easily lose. Fortunately for Obama -- and, by extension, for the Democratic Party -- the election is not today: it's 7 months from now.

Here are our grades for every first round pick of this year's NFL Draft.

In a stark reminder of how the recession has damaged the employment prospects of young Americans, an analysis found that more than half of recent college graduates are out of work or toiling in unskilled jobs.

India -which criticized the sanctions by the U.S., United Nations and European Union - recently became Iran's top oil buyer.

The White House announced Thursday that President Barack Obama will award Patricia Pat Summitt the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor.

The Pat Summitt era has come to an end at the University of Tennessee after the legendary women's basketball coach stepped down after 38 seasons. Summitt passes the torch to new head coach Holly Warlick, a longtime Lady Vols assistant who handled the main coaching duties last season after Summitt was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.

“The Bachelor” and “The Bachelorette” creators are being sued.

It's probably not surprising, but the Indianapolis Colts informed Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck that they will select him as the number one overall pick at the 2012 NFL Draft on Apr. 26.

Pat Summitt was the greatest college basketball coach ever.

Sprint, America’s third-largest mobile carrier, just revealed some of its first 4G LTE networks, which extend to areas such as Tennessee, Illinois and New York. The mobile service carrier’s efforts to build a robust 4G network could be in anticipation of Apple’s next-generation smartphone, the iPhone 5.

Pat Summitt will step down as head coach at Tennessee.

The National Football League (NFL) release its 2012 schedule on Tuesday with details about the 17-week, 256-game regular-season schedule and the Super Bowl XLVII.

You may not have realized it, but synthetic marijuana is being sold in gas stations and convenience stores. Under the names K-2 and Spice, this synthetic drug aims at being a legal way to get a herbal high. Many states have banned the drugs though because they are made from dangerous chemical concoctions, reports the Christian Science Monitor.