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  Tropical Storm Fay will likely not become a hurricane, forecasters said Wednesday, relieving fears the zig-zagging storm would return from the Atlantic with punishing force later this week.

• Judge: Company must give experimental drug to teen 23 min ago

  A federal judge has ordered a research company to supply an experimental drug to a 16-year-old Minnesota boy who is terminally ill with muscular dystrophy.

• Search suspended for plane with Alaska official 32 min ago

  The Coast Guard has suspended its search for a small plane carrying an Alaska state official and his son.

• Study finds minorities more likely to be paddled 35 min ago

  Paddlings, swats, licks. A quarter of a million schoolchildren got them last year - and blacks, American Indians and kids with disabilities got a disproportionate share of the punishment, according to a study by a human rights group.

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