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Many airports send their discarded french fries, burgers and Cinnabons to the landfill. But Charlotte Douglas International plans to transform that garbage into fertilizer for flower beds. All it needed was a couple of million red wiggler worms.

The settlement, which will end a wrongful incarceration lawsuit filed by attorneys for Ronnie Wallace Long, also included a public apology from the city of Concord for its role in his imprisonment.

Bayer is adding two of its name-brand drugs to the roster of Cost Plus Drugs: the birth control pill Yaz and the menopause treatment Climara.

Apfel's late-in-life emergence as a stylemaker was celebrated in magazines and museums. Her company made reproduction fabrics for the White House for decades. She became a fashion model at 97.

The U.S. now has more than 100 Olympic medals, the most of any nation. But there's a bigger story behind the medal count in Paris.

Russia is experiencing its first anthrax outbreak in more than 70 years. One child died. Health officials think it might have been triggered by warming permafrost, which unleashed dormant bacteria.

A military coup attempt is underway in Bolivia. Hundreds of troops and armored vehicles have taken to the streets of La Paz, surrounding the governmental palace and using tear gas on demonstrators.

At age 46, Gabrielle Rose knew the Paris Olympics were out of reach. But the swimmer still went head-to-head with athletes half her age at the USA Swimming Olympic trials in Indianapolis.

The drills are a warning to Taiwan's new president, who this week called on China in his inaugural address to cease its intimidation of Taiwan.

The Republican-backed measure would end the use of sworn affidavits for new voters seeking to register.