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Albany high school robotics team ready to build another champion

The Albany High School robotics team knows a thing or two about building champions. Last year, they competed in a national FIRST Robotics tournament after winning a regional competition. They get about six weeks to design and build their entry.

NASA about to pull plug on Mars rover, silent for 8 months

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA is trying one last time to contact its record-setting Mars rover Opportunity, before calling it quits.

Statewide weather network helping meteorologists make better predictions

Many people who try to predict the future say we better plan for extreme and dangerous weather events. New York has developed a state-of-the-art weather observation system to help plan for those events, if and when they happen.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — An internal team at the Census Bureau found that basic personal information collected from more than 100 million Americans during the 2010 head count could be reconstructed from obscured data, but with lots of mistakes, a top agency official disclosed Saturday.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — When he took the job 15 years ago, Horry County Emergency Manager Randy Webster figured his biggest disasters would be wind and surge rolling over his county's beaches, South Carolina's top tourist destination.

FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — Fear washed over Travis Kauffman as he wrestled with a thrashing mountain lion that attacked him on a Colorado mountain trail, but then his fighting instinct took over as he found its neck with his foot and suffocated the young cat.

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CHICAGO (AP) — In a story Feb. 15 about a Department of Energy lithium-ion battery research and development project, The Associated Press reported erroneously the amount that would be spent over three years and the name of Hans Eric Melin's company. The correct amount is $15 million, not $15 billion. Melin's company is called Circular Energy Storage, having changed its name from Creation Inn.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — It's been a complicated few weeks for Amazon, what with its abrupt pullout from a massive New York City development, extortion claims related to intimate photos taken by its founder Jeff Bezos and increasing antitrust scrutiny in Europe .

Amazon's breakup with New York was still fresh when other cities started sending their own valentines to the online giant.