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FILE - In this Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2011 file photo, students listen during an assembly on the first day of school at a temporary high school in a converted store in Joplin, Mo., nearly three months after an EF-5 tornado destroyed six schools and damaged four others along with killing 160 people and devastating a third of the city. According to research cited in a report by the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, about two-thirds of U.S. children and teens younger than 18 will experience at least one traumatic event, including shootings and other violence, car crashes and weather disasters. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
Healing traumatized kids: answers lacking
CHICAGO — Shootings and other traumatic events involving children are not rare events, but there’s a startling lack of scientific evidence on the best ways to help young survivors and witnesses hea...
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Flaws found in US missile shield
WASHINGTON — Secret Defense Department studies cast doubt on whether a multibillion-dollar missile defense system planned for Europe will ever be able to protect the U.S. from Iranian missiles as i...
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Boeing sends 787 on test flight from Seattle
SEATTLE — Boeing sent a 787 up on a test flight Saturday, the first since the new airliner was grounded three weeks ago because of a battery fire. The aircraft took off from Boeing Field in Seat...
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Clear sky aids mountain hunt for fugitive ex-cop
BIG BEAR LAKE, Calif. — Searchers took advantage Saturday of a break from recent stormy weather in their hunt for a former Los Angeles police officer suspected in three killings, patrolling a mount...
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Associated Press A man shovels snow off his car Saturday in front of his home on East Third street in the South Boston neighborhood in Boston. A howling storm across the Northeast left the New York-to-Boston corridor shrouded in 1 to 3 feet of snow, stranding motorists on highways overnight and piling up drifts so high that some homeowners couldn't get their doors open.
New England begins the big dig-out
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — New Englanders began the back-breaking job of digging out from as much as 3 feet of snow Saturday and emergency crews used snowmobiles to reach shivering motorists stranded overn...
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Associated Press President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union address in 2012 on Capitol Hill in Washington. Obama will center Tuesday's address on boosting job creation and economic growth.
Economy keeps Obama’s focus in State of the Union address
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will focus his State of the Union address on boosting job creation and economic growth at a time of high unemployment, underscoring the degree to which the econo...
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Mayor resigns over accusations of gay slurs
CINCINNATI — The mayor of a southeastern Ohio town has resigned over accusations that she repeatedly referred to a gay police officer’s sexuality in front of his colleagues and created a hostile wo...
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Associated Press Los Angeles police officers stand near "Phraselators" in 2008 as they monitor May Day protesters gathering downtown to call for immigration reform in Los Angeles. The department is using new tactics and technology, including the "Phraselators," which can broadcast to a crowd in different languages, in hopes of overcoming the memory of the previous year's violent event. Christopher Dorner's claim that his career as a Los Angeles police officer was undone by a racist conspiracy at the department comes at a time when it's widely held the LAPD has moved beyond the troubled racial legacy of Rodney King and the O.J. Simpson trial.
Rant puts focus on LAPD legacy
LOS ANGELES — Fugitive ex-Los Angeles police officer Christopher Dorner’s claim in an online “manifesto” that his career was undone by racist colleagues conspiring against him comes at a time when ...
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Associated Press A fresh drill hole, (center), made by the Curiosity rover Friday, appears next to an earlier test hole. Curiosity has completed its first drill into a Martian rock, a huge milestone since landing in an ancient crater in August 2012.
Curiosity finishes 1st drill into Mars rock
LOS ANGELES — In a Mars first, the Curiosity rover drilled into a rock and prepared to dump an aspirin-sized pinch of powder into its onboard laboratories for closer inspection. The feat marked ...
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Texas-sized silence ensues as immigration talks ramp up
AUSTIN, Texas — With nearly 2 million illegal immigrants and a 1,200-mile border with Mexico, Texas has more at stake than most states in the renewed push to overhaul the nation’s immigration syste...
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