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Prisoners’ use of smuggled cellphones on the rise

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — They’re hidden in babies’ diapers, ramen noodle soup packages, footballs, soda cans and even body cavities….

Scientists find 800,000-year-old footprints in UK

LONDON (AP) — They were a British family on a day out – almost a million years ago. Archaeologists announced…

NBC producer’s job is to create moments

STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) — At 3:30 a.m. on the day before the Olympics started, Brian Gilmore was glancing at the…

What Facebook knows about love, in numbers

NEW YORK (AP) — With 1.23 billion users in all the flavors and up-and-down stages of romantic relationships, Facebook knows…

Chart-topping Missouri nuns to release Lent album

GOWER, Mo. (AP) — Eight times a day, a group of nuns files into a chapel in their rural northwest…