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The number of Americans fighting off hunger stayed level last year, though food insecurity rates remain the highest they have been since the federal government began keeping track 15 years ago, a Department of Agriculture report released Monday found.

Economic status plays a heavy role in whether Hunterdon Central High School students achieve federally mandated proficiency in language arts and math. About half of 48 students receiving free or reduced-price lunches passed standardized tests in math while six out of 10 did so in language arts.

A dummy bomb that sparked an international terror alert was made by an 80-year-old woman in California and ended up discarded in a Namibia airport because of "a boo-boo," NBC News reported Friday.

A Delta Air Lines flight to Russia made an emergency landing Sunday evening after encountering an engine problem shortly after takeoff from New York, the Federal Aviation Administration reported.

A Delta Air Lines flight to Russia made an emergency landing Sunday evening after encountering an engine problem shortly after takeoff from New York, the Federal Aviation Administration reported

A New Jersey pastor who believes Facebook leads to infidelity has offered to step down over a past affair that involved a three-way sexual relationship with his wife and a male church assistant.

Four people, including three children, were found dead inside a home in a northwest Florida neighborhood Saturday, police said.

Showering the students of Maple Avenue school with praise, hugs and handshakes, Obama stopped in Newark to tout a national program seeking to curb childhood obesity.

Owners of dogs and other pets can be fined if their pets make noise for more than 20 minutes, Borough Council decided Thursday. After a public hearing, council adopted the ordinance, which forbids owners to let pets engage in what it calls "vocalizing" (defined as "howling, yelping, barking, squawking, etc.") for 20 minutes without interruption, meaning an average of four or more vocalizations per minute. After receiving at least three written warnings from the police, a pet owner can be fined up to $100 for a first offense, $200 for a second offense and $300 for each subsequent offense.

If your dog barks for more than 20 minutes, High Bridge might fine you

A Manchester woman was arrested after making her 15th hang-up call of the year to 911, according to a report on APP.com.

A recent terror operation involving parcel bombs on UPS and FedEx flights cost just $4,200, according to a report in a magazine that analysts say is published by al Qaeda's branch in Yemen.

Shortly before she vanished in May 2007, Kara Kopetsky, 17, told her parents her former boyfriend was stalking her.

Clinton Twp. man threatens to shoot wife, a day after ripping phone from her hands when she tries to call 9-1-1

(CNN) -- OnLive, the gaming-on-demand company, introduced a new game console on Thursday it says will offer "awesome quality and state-of-the-art specs" for high-definition televisions.

AAA Mid-Atlantic says the average price of regular gasoline in the Garden State on Friday was $2.85, up 7 cents from a week ago.

N.J. gas prices continue rise

Boise State routed Fresno State 51-0 on Friday night, which helped the Broncos gain support in both the Harris and coaches' polls. Boise State was already third in both polls, a spot ahead of TCU, last week. But coming off the blowout victory, the Broncos extended their points lead over the Horned Frogs.

(CNN) -- Freezing rain and ice-covered roads made for a treacherous Saturday night in Minnesota, where more than 370 crashes were reported, most of them in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area, officials said Sunday. One person was killed.

(CNN) -- In 2010, the Year of the Tiger, about 3,600 of the majestic predators remain in the wild, their existence threatened by habitat-loss and poaching.

Rescuers in New Zealand were testing a high-tech robot Monday that they hope will provide key information in their search for 29 miners trapped underground.

"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows -- Part 1" posted the franchise's best opening ever by grossing $125.1 million this weekend, according to studio estimates. That figure smashes the wizarding series' prior opening-weekend record of $102.7 million, held by 2005's "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire."

After decades of silence, former U.S. Secret Service agents assigned to protect President John F. Kennedy have come forward to offer their accounts of what happened 47 years ago today. Agents Clint Hill and Jerry Blaine talked to CNN, recounting the burden they felt in the aftermath of the shooting. Both describe feelings of failure with knowing they couldn't protect the President that day.