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TAMPA, Fla. – A judge decided Thursday that Debra Lafave, a former middle school teacher and sex offender, violated her probation by having contact with an underage female co-worker at a restaurant where she worked, but it wasn’t sufficient enough to put her back into jail. Lafave — who has …

WASHINGTON – Use it as a postage stamp, not a chemistry text. In spite of a small error in a chemical structural formula, the Postal Service is going ahead with a commemorative stamp honoring biochemist Gerty Cori. She discovered cori ester, a derivative of glucose. • Click here to visit …

NEW YORK – Hundreds of thousands of revelers in chilly weather in Times Square cheered when an 11,875-pound crystal ball covered with more than 32,000 bulbs dropped at midnight, ushering in the new decade and ending 10 years marred by war, recession, terrorism and threats of environmental catastrophe. “Much happiness …