June 19, 2013
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Court: Generic drugs can be illegal
WASHINGTON — Deals between pharmaceutical corporations and their generic drug competitors, which government officials say keep cheaper forms of medicine off the market, can sometimes be illegal and...
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Feds end day of search for Hoffa’s remains
OAKLAND TOWNSHIP, Mich. — The location of former Teamsters head Jimmy Hoffa’s body will apparently remain a mystery for at least one more night. Federal agents who spent Monday digging around in...
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Associated Press A package of Oscar Mayer Carving Board Turkey Breast is among the products companies are now trying to make processed foods appear more homespun.
Companies work to make it look natural
NEW YORK — Here’s the latest goal for food makers: Perfect the art of imperfection. When stretching out the dough for its premium “Artisan Pizzas,” Domino’s workers are instructed not to worry a...
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Obama: NSA data gathering ‘transparent’
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is defending top secret U.S. spying programs and called them transparent — even though they are authorized in secret. Obama told PBS’s Charlie Rose in an inte...
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Penn State fallout lingers year after Sandusky abuse trial
HARRISBURG, Pa. — In the year since eight young men took the stand to testify they were sexually abused by former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, the scandal has played out in t...
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In this Friday, June 7, 2013, photo farmer Kent Peppler inspects one of his irrigation ditches that provides water to irrigate his crops on his farm near Greeley, Colo. Peppler says he is fallowing some of his corn fields this year because he can't afford to irrigate the land, in part because deep-pocketed energy companies have driven up the price of water. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)
Fracking fuels water fights in nation’s dry spots
SAN FRANCISCO — The latest domestic energy boom is sweeping through some of the nation’s driest pockets, drawing millions of gallons of water to unlock oil and gas reserves from beneath the Earth’s...
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Current, former US officials back secret phone surveillance
WASHINGTON — Current and former top U.S. officials on Sunday defended the government’s collection of phone and Internet data following new revelations about the secret surveillance programs, saying...
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FILE - In this June 3, 2013, file photo House Appropriations Committee Chairman Rep. Hal Rogers, R-Ky., right, talks with the chairman of the committee that funds the IRS, Rep. Ander Crenshaw, R-Fla., the House Financial Services and General Government subcommittee, on Capitol Hill in Washington during a hearing with acting IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel. Republicans have fought the health care law since it was enacted in 2010 without a single GOP vote. Now the IRS scandals are getting some Republicans a timely excuse to to starve it by refusing funding for its implementation. ÒI think itÕs safe to say theyÕre (IRS) not going to get the kind of increase theyÕre asking for,Ó said Crenshaw, R-Fla. ÒThe question is, based on their bad behavior, are they going to end up with less money?Ó he said. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
IRS supervisor in DC scrutinized tea party cases
WASHINGTON — An Internal Revenue Service supervisor in Washington says she was personally involved in scrutinizing some of the earliest applications from tea party groups seeking tax-exempt status,...
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Shootings show troubled side of Calif. beach city
SANTA MONICA, Calif. — For decades there have been two Santa Monicas. There’s the hip beachfront town packed year-round with tourists who cram its trendy bars and restaurants, stay at its pricey...
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Associated Press Dr. Frank Wright, a forensic dentist, studies evidence in a bite mark analysis March 28. He practices on a regular basis in between seeing patients at his office and conducting research on different ways of photographing bite marks.
Officials deride bites as unreliable
At least 24 men convicted or charged with murder or rape based on bite marks on the flesh of victims have been exonerated since 2000, many after spending more than a decade in prison. Now a judge’s...
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