May 18, 2013
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Poll: Few Americans know all obesity risks
WASHINGTON — Heart disease and diabetes get all the attention, but what about the many other ways obesity can damage your health? Carrying too many pounds may lead to or worsen some types of can...
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Fishermen hoping for help with storm losses
MIDDLETOWN, N.J. — While Superstorm Sandy did highly visible damage to homes, boardwalks and roads, it also walloped the Northeastern fishing industry, whose workers are hoping for a small piece of...
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Associated Press An airport worker looks out of the car and through the open doorway of the glass security barrier in 2010 at Washington Dulles International Airport in Washington. New York City transit officials are considering similar safety barriers between passenger platforms and trains after two people were pushed and a third fell to their deaths on the tracks since early December 2012.
After subway deaths, barriers get considered
NEW YORK — Every day, throngs of riders stand on the edge of danger in the nation’s busiest subway system, waiting on platforms with nothing between them and the tracks. Dozens of subway and lig...
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Infantry now shut to women; do they want it open?
WASHINGTON — If or when the Pentagon lets women become infantry troops — the country’s front-line warfighters — how many women will want to? The answer is probably not many. Interviews with a...
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Hostess in talks to sell bread brands
A newspaper is reporting that Flowers Foods and Bimbo are emerging as bidders for the bread brands of Hostess, which in the midst of a bankruptcy-court liquidation of its assets. The Wall Street...
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Associated Press Police respond to the scene of a barricaded man Saturday in Aurora, Colo. Four people, including an armed suspect, died during an hours-long standoff at a townhome, authorities said.
Police standoff results in fatalities
AURORA, Colo. — A gunman barricaded inside his Colorado home fired shots at police from a second-story window before he was killed as SWAT officers stormed the home Saturday. Once inside, they foun...
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Earthquake shakes parts of Alaska, Canada
JUNEAU, Alaska — A powerful earthquake sparked a tsunami warning for hundreds of miles of Alaskan and Canadian coastline, but the alert was canceled when no damaging waves were generated. The ma...
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Associated Press House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, walks to a strategy session with GOP members on Capitol Hill in Washington at the start of the first full day of business for the new 113th Congress. Republicans in Congress now find themselves trying to fend off potential primary challenges next year from angry conservatives.
Tax vote fuels talk of primaries
DES MOINES, Iowa — Republicans in Congress who took the politically risky step of voting to raise taxes now find themselves trying to fend off potential primary challenges next year from angry cons...
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Winter challenges Shell ship salvage
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Responders on Saturday prepared to hook a main tow line to an oil-drilling ship grounded on rocks near a remote Alaska island. Officials overseeing the response to the ground...
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Ex-Rep. Frank on Senate: Put me in, governor
BOSTON — Newly retired Rep. Barney Frank revealed on Friday that he would like to serve as a temporary successor to Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, the secretary of state nominee. Frank told The ...
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