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NRA: Congress won’t pass gun ban
WASHINGTON — The powerful gun lobby is gauging enough support in Congress to block a law that would ban assault weapons, despite promises from the White House and senior lawmakers to make such a me...
Jan 14, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Priest, ex-teacher face sex trial in Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA — The second trial to stem from a landmark investigation of priest sexual abuse in the Philadelphia Archdiocese is set to start Monday. The accuser says he was abused by two Roman C...
Jan 14, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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FILE - In this Monday, Jan. 7, 2013 file photo, retired soccer player Alexi Lalas, rear center, watches children play during a visit by MLS and United States national team players to the Newtown Youth Academy in Newtown, Conn. The event, which was set up by Houston Dynamo general manager and Connecticut native Chris Canetti, featured about 40 current and former soccer players interacting with and signing autographs for about 1,000 children in a community that was devastated by the deadly shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School. (AP Photo/Pat Eaton-Robb, File)
Athletes from college to pro offer pick-me-up in Newtown
NEWTOWN, Conn. — Newtown first-grader Katelyn Sullivan has been sleeping in her parents’ bed since last month’s massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary school. Katelyn, who attends another school in t...
Jan 13, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Critics complain Sandy aid tied to other projects
WASHINGTON — Conservatives and watchdog groups are mounting a “not-so-fast” campaign against a $50.7 billion Superstorm Sandy aid package that Northeastern governors and lawmakers hope to push thro...
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FILE - In this file photo taken Oct. 17, 2012, Bill Staples, a Mississippi Department of Health employee, is given a flu vaccine shot by registered nurse Rosemary Jones, also with the health department, in Jackson, Miss. A survey by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention researchers found that in 2011, more than 400 U.S. hospitals required flu vaccinations for their employees and 29 hospitals fired employees that were not vaccinated against the virus. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)
Hospitals crack down on workers refusing flu shots
CHICAGO — Patients can refuse a flu shot. Should doctors and nurses have that right, too? That is the thorny question surfacing as U.S. hospitals increasingly crack down on employees who won’t get ...
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Steubenville police Chief William McCafferty sits behind a computer in his captains office as he tells how he gave the FBI an email that he had opened earlier which disabled his computer on Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013, in Steubenville, Ohio. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
Online hacker threats complicate Ohio school rape investigation case
STEUBENVILLE, Ohio — Shortly after Police Chief William McCafferty arrived at the office one day this week, he found an email from someone claiming to be a hacker from Ontario with a tip. Moments l...
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Journalist Charlie Rose, right, smiles as he interviews Robert F. Kennedy, Rory Kennedy, center, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in front of a full audience at the AT&T Performing Arts Center Friday, Jan. 11, 2013, in Dallas. The Kennedys are in Dallas as a year of observances begins for the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's assassination. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
Kennedy children speak about JFK assassination in Dallas
DALLAS — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is convinced that a lone gunman wasn’t solely responsible for the assassination of his uncle, President John F. Kennedy, and said his father believed the Warren Commi...
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Search for Gacy victims approved
CHICAGO — Detectives who have long wondered if John Wayne Gacy killed others besides the 33 young men he was convicted of murdering may soon get to search for bodies underneath an apartment complex...
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FILE - In this Oct. 26, 1963 file photo, a young fan hugs George Harrison as The Beatles play at a pop festival in Stockholm, Sweden. At left is Paul McCartney. (AP Photo/File)
Year’s tumult echoes still
A new year was just beginning — an extraordinary year, in which so much would change. Half a century ago, on Jan. 14, 1963, George Wallace took the podium to give his inaugural address as govern...
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Witness: Student smirked while shooting
TAFT, Calif. — Morgan Alldredge had just finished her oceanography test when a classmate she knows well suddenly walked in the open door to her science class with a shotgun. “He didn’t say anyth...
Jan 12, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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