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CIA following Twitter, Facebook

McLEAN, Va. (AP) — In an anonymous industrial park in Virginia, in an unassuming brick building, the CIA is following tweets — up to 5 million a day. At the agency's Open Source Center, a team known affectionately as the...... Full story

Schools fear worst budget cuts ahead

Student Jayvin Mercado, 9, keeps an eye on his science experiment at Lincoln Middle School Friday, Sept. 30, 2011, in Lancaster, Pa. Financial woes have forced school districts to shed thousands of teaching jobs, adopt a four-day school week and cut electives such as art. And the budget situation probably won't improve any time soon for school districts that rely heavily on state and local tax dollars. But what might happen in a best-case financial scenario that assumes strong economic growth next year? (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) — Teenage girls in ponytails and boys in long athletic shorts dash across the gym at Abraham Lincoln Middle School, pausing their game of indoor tennis to motion "Y-M-C-A" with their arms as the Village People's song blares...... Full story

RGC to spend $2.9 million on second phase of paving, infrastructure project

Gail Burkhardt

RIO GRANDE CITY – City commissioners put a $2.9 million price tag on the second phase of a major street and infrastructure improvement project. The Rio Grande City Commission voted Wednesday to accept a bid from JF Utility Trenching to pave...... Full story

Border fence nears completion in Cameron County

Jazmine Ulloa

On a crisp December morning, Justo Ahumada stood at the edge of the levee near Hope Park watching a group of construction workers ply at the rusty iron fence now snaking its way along the U.S.-Mexico border. Their highlighter-yellow jackets...... Full story