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Associated Press With tears in her eyes, Pirscilla Arena, 41, from Mount Sinai, N.Y., reads letters that she wrote to her two children as she spent Friday night in her car Saturday at the Brookhaven Town Hall in Farmingville, NY. Arena's car got stuck in the snow while she was traveling home after work during Friday's snow storm.
Stuck in the snow
FARMINGVILLE, N.Y. — Stranded for hours on a snow-covered road, Priscilla Arena prayed, took out a sheet of loose-leaf paper and wrote what she thought might be her last words to her husband and ch...
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GOP hopes for better ties with minorities
WASHINGTON — The Republican Party’s problems with minority voters have preoccupied strategists since November, and it’s possible those difficulties will persist or worsen. But an opening for marked...
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Associated Press Gov. Terry Branstad visits with farmer Randy Hilleman of State Center and Bonnie, the pig he officially pardoned Friday, in Des Moines, Iowa. The pardoning ceremony was part of the lead up to Saturday's Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival in Des Moines.
Bacon enthusiasts converge in Iowa for fest
DES MOINES, Iowa — The smell of bacon was in the air Saturday as thousands converged on Iowa’s capital city for an increasingly popular festival celebrating all things connected with the meat. S...
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Associated Press Wayne LaPierre Jr., executive vice president and chief executive officer of the National Rifle Association, speaks April 14 at its national convention in St. Louis. LaPierre, 63, has been serving up heated us-vs.-them rhetoric to rally the NRA faithful. Usually it works; sometimes it backfires.
LaPierre: An ‘absent-minded professor’
WASHINGTON — Wayne LaPierre would just as soon read a book as fire a gun. That’s right, the National Rifle Association’s fire-breathing defender of gun rights is more academic than marksman. ...
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Electric company: Super Bowl blackout was caused by relay
NEW ORLEANS — The company that supplied electricity to the Super Bowl says the blackout that halted the big game was caused by a device it installed specially to prevent a power failure. But the...
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Associated Press A California Highway Patrol officer tells a driver to roll the window down Friday while searching for former Los Angeles police officer Christopher Dorner at a checkpoint near Big Bear Lake, Calif. Law enforcement officers working in falling snow searched the Southern California mountain for Dorner, who is accused of carrying out a killing spree because he felt he was unfairly fired from his job.
Hunt for ex-cop goes on amid storm
BIG BEAR LAKE, Calif. — All that was left were footprints leading away from Christopher Dorner’s burned-out pickup truck, and enormous, snow-covered mountains where he could be hiding among hundred...
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Senators seek out pact on gun-buy background checks
WASHINGTON — A cornerstone of President Barack Obama’s drive to check gun violence is gathering bipartisan steam as four senators, including two of the National Rifle Association’s congressional ch...
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Lawmakers test legal waters for drones
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers are considering whether Congress should set up a special court to decide when drones can kill American al-Qaida suspects overseas, much as a secret court now grants permissio...
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After early start, worst of flu may be over
NEW YORK — The worst of the flu season appears to be over. The number of states reporting intense or widespread illnesses dropped again last week, and in a few states there was very little flu g...
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Hacker gains access to Bush family emails, photos
HOUSTON — Turns out even former presidents can fall prey to hackers. A mysterious email hacker apparently accessed private photos and messages sent between members of the Bush family, including ...
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