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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A university professor in Pennsylvania has been sentenced to a year and a day in prison on a conviction of defrauding NASA by letting graduate students and researchers do all the work on a $700,000 project.

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WASHINGTON, Pa. (AP) — A national hospital chain headquartered in central Pennsylvania has agreed to pay $32.7 million to resolve allegations that it billed Medicare for medically unnecessary services.

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HOUSTON (AP) — Federal securities regulators say oil field services company Weatherford International has agreed to pay a $140 million fine related to taxes and misstated earnings.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for a coalition of states and businesses reliant on fossil fuels made their case Tuesday to a federal appeals court that President Barack Obama's plan to curtail climate-warming greenhouse gases is an unlawful power grab.

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BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota state inspection of an oil pipeline site has found no sign of the Native American artifacts or human remains that an American Indian Tribe says are present, the state's chief archaeologist said in a draft memo.

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DALLAS (AP) — Still recovering from the July sniper attack that left five law enforcement officers dead, the Dallas Police Department is facing a new crisis as its pension fund approaches insolvency and scores of officers, including Chief David Brown, announce unexpected retirements.

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HOUSTON (AP) — The number of rigs exploring for oil and natural gas in the U.S. increased by five this week to 511.

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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A judge has approved a settlement with former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling over a $75 million deal with Rhode Island state that brought his failed video game company to the state.

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DALLAS (AP) — Prosecutors say a North Texas man who helped smuggle what he thought was cocaine onto flights from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport must serve nearly 16 years in prison.

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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana's attorney general says he's canceled contracts with attorneys who represented the state in suits against Chinese drywall companies, and is auditing the contracts.

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DALLAS (AP) — A passenger has been removed from an American Airlines flight to Dallas after causing a disruption that led pilots to make an unplanned stop in Lubbock, Texas.

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BRENHAM, Texas (AP) — Blue Bell Creameries is recalling select flavors of ice cream distributed across the South after finding chocolate chip cookie dough from a third-party supplier for use as an ingredient was potentially contaminated with listeria.

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BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota legislative committee has approved an emergency request to borrow $6 million to cover the cost of law enforcement related to the ongoing protest of the four-state Dakota Access oil pipeline.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Securities regulators are investigating why Exxon Mobil Corp. hasn't written down the value of assets during the plunge in oil prices that started in mid-2014, according to a published report.

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FARGO, N.D. (AP) — A joint task force of North Dakota and federal officials is investigating a clash between Dakota Access pipeline protesters and private security guards earlier this month.

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GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — A judge has dismissed about 20,000 cases filed against BP by people who alleged they got sick after a 2010 emissions release from its Texas City refinery.

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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The CEO of the Rio Olympics says his privately-funded operating budget needs about $30 million in public funding to meet its obligations.

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HOUSTON (AP) — The number of rigs exploring for oil and natural gas in the U.S. declined by two this week to 506.

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The Buffalo Bills and New York Jets will make some history when they kick off on Thursday night.

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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Warren Buffett's company has bought nearly 1 million more shares of oil refiner Phillips 66.

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COVINGTON, Ky. (AP) — The U.S. Internal Revenue Service is consolidating processing facilities and closing a sprawling facility in northern Kentucky, meaning a loss of 1,800 jobs.

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A new Twitter app is coming to Xbox One, Apple TV and Amazon Fire TV, where viewers will be able to watch NFL games on Thursday nights.

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The Latest on the effort to restore federal protections for the lesser prairie chicken (all times local):

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BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The company developing the $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline says it is committed to the project, despite strong opposition and a federal order to halt construction near an American Indian reservation in North Dakota.