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The investigation into the Boston Marathon bombings has expanded to a landfill 60 miles south, where authorities are searching for a missing laptop computer and other clues.Law enforcement sources tell NBC News that investigators on Friday scoured the landfill in New Bedford, Mass., for items that might belong to bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, including the laptop and receipts related to the p...    

A deadly dispute over dog doo-doo will cost a Philadelphia man 20 to 40 years in prison, a judge ruled Friday.Tyrirk Harris, 28, was sentenced for the February 2012 shooting death of a neighbor who confronted him for not cleaning up after his German shepherd and Chihuahua. Prosecutors said Harris pulled a gun and shot 47-year-old Franklin Manuel Santana once in the face and four times in the back....    

While the possible construction of the Keystone XL pipeline has made for contentious disagreements from the halls of Congress to ranches in Nebraska, the real environmental debate begins in a place most Americans have never heard of.Nearly 700 miles north of the U.S.-Canada border sits Fort McMurray, Alberta, the unofficial capital of oil sands country, and the heart of the Keystone controversy.Ca...