By Katherine Dunn The Baltimore Sun (MCT) VILLANOVA, Pa. _ Sunday night's NCAA women's lacrosse championship was a game of firsts. Unfortunately for No. 1 Maryland, they weren't happy firsts. In...

By Molly Hennessy-Fiske Los Angeles Times (MCT) GRAPEVINE, Texas _ In an emotionally charged vote Thursday, the Boy Scouts of America lifted its ban on gay youth starting in January next year, the...

By Rick Montgomery The Kansas City Star (MCT) KANSAS CITY, Mo. _ A University of Kansas freshman took a break from shooting hoops with friends outside his dormitory to talk about what some students...

By Renee Schoof McClatchy Washington Bureau (MCT) WASHINGTON _ Republicans in the House of Representatives and President Barack Obama agree in general on what to do with student loan interest rates:...

By Katy Murphy The Oakland Tribune (MCT) BERKELEY, Calif. _ Every year, more college students in the U.S. are learning a new language without uttering a word. American Sign Language has become...

By Claudia Buck The Sacramento Bee (MCT) The embarrassing tweet. The drunken party photos. The DUI arrest. The messy divorce or business scandal. When it comes to the Internet, there are no secrets....

By Erik Lacitis The Seattle Times (MCT) He's 26, likes industrial and electronic music, has a bleached-blond Mohawk haircut and sometimes, Mikhail Davidov said, he starts his day "at the crack of...

Chicago Tribune (MCT) Once upon a time, long long ago, the personal computer transformed the global economy, made heroes of nerds and gave everyday people the processing power once reserved for space...

By Jonathan S. Landay, Matthew Schofield and Anita Kumar McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) WASHINGTON _ Even as lawmakers pressed President Barack Obama on Thursday to take more aggressive action in Syria,...

By Susan Snyder The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT) PHILADELPHIA _ The high school senior was wait listed at Villanova University, her No. 1 pick. So she sent the admissions office a white sneaker with...