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Bomb threat prompts evacuation of school
GLENDALE, Calif. — A bomb threat prompted the evacuation of hundreds of children from a Southern California elementary school Monday while police searched buildings to make sure the campus was safe...
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Retired pastor standing trial in wife’s death
STROUDSBURG, Pa. — A retired Pennsylvania pastor charged with killing both of his wives is on trial in the death of his second wife. Arthur “A.B.” Schirmer, 64, is charged with killing Betty Je...
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Associated Press Missouri Senate President Pro Tem Tom Dempsey, R-St. Peters, appears Sept. 6 before the Senate convened for the first day of the special legislative session in Jefferson City. Emboldened by big majorities and eager to lure businesses, Republican legislators and governors across the Midwest and South are planning to pursue hundreds of millions of dollars of tax cuts in the new year.
State tax-cut plans tempered by caution
Jefferson City, Mo. — Emboldened by big majorities and eager to lure businesses, Republican legislators and governors across the Midwest and South are planning to pursue hundreds of millions of dol...
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Associated Press Handguns are displayed Friday in the sales area of Sandy Springs Gun Club and Range in Sandy Springs, Ga. In Connecticut and Colorado, scenes of the most deadly U.S. mass shootings in 2012, people were less enthusiastic about buying new guns at the end of the year than in most other states.
Fewer gun buyers seen in mass shooting states
WASHINGTON — People who lived in the two states that saw the most deadly U.S. mass shootings in 2012 were less enthusiastic about buying new guns at the end of the year than those in most other sta...
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Missing skydiver thought to be dead
SEATTLE — The search for a wing suit-wearing skydiver in the Washington Cascade foothills will continue by helicopter as the weather allows, but officials don’t expect to find him alive. No one ...
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Associated Press Urooj Khan, 46, of Chicago's West Rogers Park neighborhood, appears with a winning lottery ticket. The Cook County medical examiner said Monday that Khan was fatally poisoned with cyanide July 20, 2012, a day after he collected nearly $425,000 in lottery winnings.
Lottery winner died from cyanide poisoning
CHICAGO — With no signs of trauma and nothing to raise suspicions, the sudden death of a Chicago man just as he was about to collect nearly $425,000 in lottery winnings was initially ruled a result...
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Republicans scoff at Obama’s ‘no-negotiation’ vow on debt
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama, meet Congressman Michael Burgess. The president says he absolutely will not let Republicans threaten a national debt ceiling crisis as a way to extract deepe...
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Biographical information for John Brennan
NAME — John O. Brennan. AGE-BIRTH DATE — 57; Sept. 22, 1955. EDUCATION — Bachelor’s degree, political science, Fordham University, 1977; master’s degree, government, University of Texas at Au...
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Associated Press Current Defense Secretary Leon Panetta speaks in the East Room of the White House on Monday in Washington. President Barack Obama announced that he is nominating Deputy National Security Adviser for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism John Brennan (right) as the new CIA director and former Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel (left) as the new defense secretary.
Obama digs in for a fight on Hagel, Brennan picks
WASHINGTON — Digging in for a fight, President Barack Obama riled Senate Republicans and some Democrats, too, on Monday by nominating former senator and combat veteran Chuck Hagel to lead the Penta...
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Bobcat attacks man inside his garage
BROOKFIELD, Mass. — A man in Massachusetts says all he heard was a hiss before a bobcat pounced on him in his own garage, sinking its teeth into his face and its claws in his back. Roger Mundell...
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