Updated: Friday, 29 Jul 2011, 11:07 AM EDT

Published : Friday, 29 Jul 2011, 11:07 AM EDT

BELVIDERE, N.J. - A northern New Jersey school district has adopted a voluntary random drug testing program for middle school students.

Parental consent is required for sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students in the Belvidere school district. Parents must also pay for the cost of the treatment program.

Those who test positive will be required to attend an early…

A Lansing medical marijuana dispensary is offering medical marijuana patients a choice of a half a gram of medical pot or a marijuana-laced baked good called a “medible” in exchange for registering to vote.…

By WILLIAM YARDLEY

Published: July 29, 2011

OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK, Wash. — Beginning late this summer, one of the most promising and pure acts of environmental restoration the region and the nation have ever seen will get under way here, experts say, in the…

Charles Monnett, whose 2006 report that polar bears had drowned in the Arctic helped boost the global warming movement, has been put on administrative leave by his federal agency.

By BENEDICT CAREY

The New York Times

The mental-health fallout from the Sept. 11 attacks has taught psychologists far more about their field's limits than about their potential to shape and predict behavior, according to a new review.

The review, a collection of articles due to be published next month in…

First Posted: 7/28/11 08:23 AM ET Updated: 7/28/11 08:24 AM ET

FAIRFIELD, Connecticut (Lynnley Browning) - If you want to know why tax from surging corporate profits isn't making much of a dent in the United States' crippling budget deficit, a glance at Microsoft Corp's recent results provides some clues.

Things were rosy in the giant software company's just-ended…

Agence France-Presse July 28, 2011 7:18 AM



 

The main gate at the U.S. Army post at Fort Hood, Texas is pictured in this undated photograph, obtained on Nov. 5, 2009.

Photograph by: III Corps Public…

By Gillian Shaw 27 Jul 2011

A Langley family has become the latest victim of swatting, a practice in which 911 callers trick police into sending out a SWAT  team in response to a bogus call.

Langley RCMP blocked traffic and the Lower Mainland Emergency Response Team surrounded a home in the 27100 block of 16th Avenue earlier this…

Randy Vickers's resignation follows string of online assaults on Senate, CIA, FBI and other government agencies

Josh Halliday

• guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 26 July 2011 12.57 BST

US cyber security…

By Mac Slavo

SHTFplan.com

July 22, 2011

Reports from organizations like the Center for Security Policy have confirmed that Electromagnetic Pulse, or EMP, weapons could potentially wipe out the entire…

Soldiers in the civil affairs battalion will work on a counterinsurgency mission involving agriculture and economic development in eastern Kunar province.

By ANDREW POLLACK

Published: July 24, 2011

The government is proposing sweeping changes in the rules covering research involving human subjects, an effort officials say…

Pictured: The blond Norwegian, 32, arrested over 'holiday island massacre' and linked to Oslo car bomb blasts

• Norwegian media name arrested man as Anders Behring Breivik
• Police say he was behind holiday island shootings and Oslo blast
• Right-wing extremist committed 'act…