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3 killed in California helicopter crash
LOS ANGELES — Three people were killed in a pre-dawn helicopter crash in a rural area of northern Los Angeles County while filming for a reality TV show. Los Angeles County Fire dispatcher Rober...
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Solar industry grapples with hazardous wastes
SAN FRANCISCO — Homeowners on the hunt for sparkling solar panels are lured by ads filled with images of pristine landscapes and bright sunshine, and words about the technology’s benefits for the e...
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Bert Johnson takes a break while clearing snow from a bus-stop bench outside the apartment complex where he lives in Portland, Maine, Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013. Residents are digging out after a blizzard dumped a record 31.9 inches of snow on the city. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
Northeast slow to recover from snow
NEWPORT, R.I. — Travel eased and life slowly returned to normal for most New Englanders after a massive blizzard, but many remained without power in cold and darkened homes and a forecast of rain b...
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FILE - In this March 8, 2011 file photo, revelers throw beads from the balcony of the Royal Sonesta Hotel onto crowds on Bourbon Street during Mardi Gras Day festivities in the French Quarter in New Orleans. Mardi Gras is Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013, but more than a dozen parades roll in the days leading up to Fat Tuesday. The Krewe of Endymion's “super float” rolls Saturday night in New Orleans led by pop star Kelly Clarkson. Sunday's Bacchus parade will include more than two dozen child cancer patients from hospitals across the country who will ride with Bacchus celebrity king, actor G.W. Bailey. On Monday, actor Gary Sinise and New Orleans musicians Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews and Harry Connick Jr. will ride in the Krewe of Orpheus parade. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, file)
Bacchus parade is on, despite weather threat
NEW ORLEANS — Actor G.W. Bailey will share the spotlight Sunday as celebrity king of the Bacchus parade — one the biggest in the run-up to Mardi Gras — with more than two dozen child cancer patient...
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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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