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Barge hits bridge; oil cleanup ongoing
VICKSBURG, Miss. — Observers say the stretch of Mississippi River where vessel traffic was halted after a barge hit a railroad bridge on Sunday is one of the most dangerous along the 2,500-mile-lon...
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Associated Press Caddo County farmer and rancher Charlie Opitz gestures toward a gully carved into a pasture on his family's farm Dec. 11 near Binger, Okla. The gullies resulted from a devastating flood in 2007, just one of about a dozen natural disasters in recent years that have struck the central Oklahoma county, which also has been beset by tornadoes, ice storms, hail and drought.
After disasters, county struggles against drought
BINGER, Okla. — In the gently rolling hills of Oklahoma ranch country is a place that has seen more than its share of destructive weather — tornadoes, ice storms and floods, year after year, for ha...
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Associated Press President Barack Obama shakes hands with his choice for Defense Secretary, former Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel, after announcing Hagel's nomination Jan. 7 in the East Room of the White House in Washington.
Facts: Case against defense secretary Hagel looks stretched
WASHINGTON — Republican-leaning groups opposing President Barack Obama’s choice of Chuck Hagel to head the Defense Department have let loose a barrage of claims about the former GOP senator. The...
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Congress passes Superstorm Sandy aid bill
WASHINGTON — Three months after Superstorm Sandy ravaged coastal areas in much of the Northeast, Congress on Monday sent a $50.5 billion emergency relief measure for storm victims to President Bara...
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Defense set in gruesome Arizona boyfriend slaying
PHOENIX — Jodi Arias was adamant at first. She said she knew nothing about her lover’s death, didn’t slit his throat, stab him nearly 30 times or put a bullet in his forehead. Then she offered a...
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Scouts considering retreat from no-gays policy
NEW YORK — The Boy Scouts of America may soon give sponsors of troops the authority to decide whether to accept gays as scouts and leaders — a potentially dramatic retreat from an exclusionary nati...
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Associated Press Army Sgt. Brendan Marrocco of Staten Island, N.Y., (left), Marine Cpl. Todd Love of Atlanta (center) and Marine Cpl. Juan Dominguez of Deming, N.M., appear at the 9/11 Memorial July 4 in New York. Marrocco, 26, the first soldier to survive losing all four limbs in the Iraq war, has received a double-arm transplant in Baltimore.
Soldier who lost 4 limbs has double-arm transplant
On Facebook, he describes himself as a “wounded warrior...very wounded.” Brendan Marrocco was the first soldier to survive losing all four limbs in the Iraq War, and doctors revealed Monday that...
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Associated Press A bipartisan group of leading senators announce that they have reached an agreement on the principles of sweeping legislation to rewrite the nation's immigration laws, during a news conference at the Capitol Monday in Washington. From left are Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J.
Immigration overhaul? Senators vow action
WASHINGTON — Side by side, leading Democratic and Republican senators pledged Monday to propel far-reaching immigration legislation through the Senate by summer providing a possible path to citizen...
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Bucknell acknowledges inflating SAT scores
PHILADELPHIA — Enrollment officials at Bucknell University, a selective liberal arts school in central Pennsylvania, inflated students’ average SAT scores over the past several years, the school’s ...
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States still have many questions on Medicaid program expansion
As state legislative sessions advance, lawmakers are debating whether to expand their Medicaid programs as provided by President Barack Obama’s health care law. It could be one of the most importan...
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