May 18, 2013
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Associated Press Patrick Foley, head custodian at Jenny Lind Elementary School, puts up a sign about a candlelight vigil to be held for Lila Fowler in Valley Springs, Calif., on Monday. Authorities are searching for the killer of Fowler, 8, a third-grader at Jenny Lind, who se bodywas found by her 12-year-old brother in the family's Valley Springs home Saturday.
Community on alert as killer sought
VALLEY SPRINGS, Calif. — A region of oak-studded hills in California, where big-city dwellers come to get away from crime, was on lockdown on Monday, two days after a mysterious intruder stabbed an...
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Some are overlooked in US immigration overhaul
SAN DIEGO — Carlos Gonzalez has lived nearly all his 29 years in a country he considers home but now finds himself on the wrong side of the border — and the wrong side of a proposed overhaul of the...
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Probe recounts ‘gray side’ of Pilot
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — When federal agents descended on the Knoxville headquarters of Pilot Flying J on April 15, it was the first inkling the public and company executives had of an FBI and Internal R...
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New York police department whistle-blowers testify at trial
NEW YORK — After Officer Pedro Serrano decided to testify in federal court about what he sees as wrongdoing within the New York Police Department, a rat sticker appeared on his locker. That was ...
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Lawmaker: FBI checking training angle in bombing
WASHINGTON — The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee said Sunday that the FBI is investigating in the United States and overseas to determine whether the suspects in the Boston Marath...
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Associated Press U.S. Navy's Blue Angels fly in formation above a crowd of spectators at the Jacksonville Sea and Sky Spectacular in Jacksonville Beach, Fla., in 2012. The Blue Angels and the U.S. Air Force's Thunderbirds have cancelled their 2013 seasons because of the automatic federal budget cuts causing about 60 cancellations thus far and affecting more than 200 of the approximately 300 air shows held each year.
Many air shows cancel without jets
MILWAUKEE — Dozens of air shows that draw tens of thousands of people and generate millions of dollars for local economies have been cancelled this year after the military grounded its jet and demo...
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Mother of suspects: I’m no terrorist
BOSTON — In photos of her as a younger woman, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva wears a low-cut blouse and has her hair teased like a 1980s rock star. After she arrived in the U.S. from Russia in 2002, she went t...
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Associated Press U.S. Marines of the 28th Regiment, 5th Division, raise the American flag atop Mount Suribachi in Iwo Jima, Japan, on Feb. 23, 1945. Alan Wood, a World War II veteran who provided the flag in the famous flag-raising on Iwo Jima has died. Wood found the flag at a Pearl Harbor depot.
Wood provided Iwo Jima flag
LOS ANGELES — Alan Wood, a World War II veteran credited with providing the flag in the famous flag-raising on Iwo Jima, has died. He was 90. Wood died April 18 of natural causes at his Sierra M...
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Associated Press President Barack Obama speaks to media at the start of a Cabinet meeting including (from left) Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on March 4 at the White House in Washington. State funding for preschoolers is at a decade low and almost half of those young students are in programs that fail to meet even half of the industry standards, according to report released today.
Preschool spending takes dive
WASHINGTON — State funding for pre-kindergarten programs had its largest drop ever last year and states are now spending less per child than they did a decade ago, according to a report released to...
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Gun check backers try ballot box
OLYMPIA, Wash. — After struggling to sway both state and federal lawmakers, proponents of expanding background checks for gun sales are now exploring whether they will have more success by taking t...
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