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Published Friday, November 20, 2009
WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon said Thursday it will scour its procedures for identifying volatile soldiers hidden in the ranks following the Fort Hood shooting rampage and lapses that might allow others to slip through bureaucratic cracks."It is prudent ...
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Published Friday, November 20, 2009
WASHINGTON -- From opposite ends of the globe, President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder firmly rejected criticism of the planned New York trial of the professed Sept. 11 mastermind and predicted that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed would be ex ...
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Published Friday, November 20, 2009
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Robert C. Byrd became history's longest-serving member of Congress on Wednesday, earning a formal salute from the Senate and President Barack Obama for his nearly 56 years of service.The Senate passed a resolution marking the miles ...
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Published Friday, November 20, 2009
COLUMBIA, S.C. -- An ethics panel says South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford should face a hearing into potential violations of state law found during a probe into his travel and campaign finances.The State Ethics Commission decision did not provide detai ...
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Published Friday, November 20, 2009
PEEKSKILL, N.Y. -- A New York state man has been convicted of reckless endangerment after leaving his 85-year-old father in a car on a hot day and finding him dead three hours later.Theodore Pressman of Beacon was found guilty Friday in Peekskill Cit ...
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Published Friday, November 20, 2009
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. -- A 39-year-old Southern California man has been arrested for misdemeanor child annoyance after allegedly paying a teenager $31 to spit in his face.The Ventura County Sheriff's Department says Charles Hersel was arrested Wednes ...
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Published Friday, November 20, 2009
CHICAGO -- Holding back tears, Oprah Winfrey told her studio audience Friday that she would end her show in 2011 after a quarter-century on the air, saying prayer and careful thought led her to her decision.Winfrey told the audience that she loved "T ...
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Published Friday, November 20, 2009
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Santa's "elves" at the North Pole have been given their walking papers -- but they're not going quietly.The volunteer "elves" are trying to counter a decision by the U.S. Postal Service to discontinue a program begun in 1954 in t ...
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Published Friday, November 20, 2009
OMAHA, Neb. -- The University of Nebraska's governing board was expected to vote Friday on a resolution that would limit stem-cell research at the university system's facilities to rules approved under former President George W. Bush.The vote by the ...
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Published Thursday, November 19, 2009
NEW ORLEANS -- A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the Army Corps of Engineers' failure to properly maintain a navigation channel led to massive flooding in Hurricane Katrina, a decision that could make the federal government vulnerable to billions ...
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Published Thursday, November 19, 2009
CHICAGO -- Two Chicago men accused of plotting an armed attack on a Danish newspaper may have been involved in planning the November 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, authorities in that country say.The FBI for now is saying only that it has e ...
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Published Thursday, November 19, 2009
LOS ANGELES -- The daughter of Sen. John Kerry has been arrested in Hollywood for allegedly driving drunk.Los Angeles police say 36-year-old Alexandra Kerry was stopped by officers on a Hollywood street at about 12:40 a.m. Thursday and tested positiv ...
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Published Thursday, November 19, 2009
SALT LAKE CITY -- The case of one of four teens who were cited after rapping their order at a McDonald's in Utah appears headed for trial.Police in American Fork, about 30 miles south of Salt Lake City, cited the teens with disorderly conduct last mo ...
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Published Thursday, November 19, 2009
OZARK, Ark. -- A police officer who used a stun gun on an unruly 10-year-old girl after he said her mother gave him permission has been suspended -- not for using the Taser but for not having a video camera attached when he used it.Mayor Vernon McDan ...
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Published Thursday, November 19, 2009
NEW YORK -- AOL says it plans to cut about a third of its work force once it is spun off from the media conglomerate Time Warner Inc.That would amount to nearly 2,300 of the roughly 6,900 workers at the struggling Internet company.AOL said in a secur ...
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Published Wednesday, November 18, 2009
WASHINGTON -- Senate health care legislation expected this week is likely to include a new long-term care insurance program to help the elderly and the disabled avoid going into nursing homes, Democratic officials say.Senate Majority Leader Harry Rei ...
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Published Wednesday, November 18, 2009
MILAN -- California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger won't say what his plans are when his term expires next year, but he won't be running for another office."I have never labeled myself as a politician, so I am not going to run for anything else," Schwarz ...
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Published Wednesday, November 18, 2009
SPRING LAKE, N.J. -- Lying in bed one night in 2007, Peter Criss felt something strange: a small lump on his left breast."I thought, 'It's a nodule, I'm a guy, I don't think it's anything more than that,"' he said. "The more I messed with it, the big ...
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Published Wednesday, November 18, 2009
RICHMOND, Calif. -- Not far from the pulsating music and dancing of the high school homecoming, young men were drinking in a dimly-lit courtyard out of sight of chaperones.A friend invited a 16-year-old girl to join them, and she started drinking har ...
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Published Wednesday, November 18, 2009
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- Huge crowds are expected when Sarah Palin kicks off her national book tour in Michigan.The 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate is scheduled to sign copies of her book Wednesday evening at a Barnes and Noble bookstore in ...
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Published Wednesday, November 18, 2009
COLUMBIA, S.C. -- South Carolina's State Ethics Commission is set to decide whether a three-month investigation provides enough evidence that Gov. Mark Sanford broke state laws.The closed-door commission meeting Wednesday is pivotal to efforts by som ...
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Published Wednesday, November 18, 2009
CLEVELAND -- A tortoise's zookeepers in Cleveland are the ones feeling slow because after more than 50 years, they've discovered "Mary" is actually a male.Officials at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo say it can be tough to establish the sex of a giant A ...
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Published Wednesday, November 18, 2009
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. -- Investigators piecing together why and where a 5-year-old North Carolina girl was killed plan to add new charges on top of counts including kidnapping and selling the girl for sexual slavery.Fayetteville police planned a briefin ...
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Published Tuesday, November 17, 2009
SANFORD, N.C. -- For a week, authorities feverishly searched for a 5-year-old girl across central North Carolina, only to find her body Monday off a rural road following accusations the girl's mother offered her for sex.The investigation into the dis ...
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Published Tuesday, November 17, 2009
NEW YORK -- What word sums up 2009? How about unfriend?That's the New Oxford American Dictionary's 2009 Word of the Year. It means to remove someone as a friend on a social networking Web site such as Facebook.Each year Oxford University Press tracks ...
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