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Embassy in Libya sought more security
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Embassy in Tripoli, Libya, requested — and received — a four-month extension of a 16-member security team, a February request that showed just how dangerous the situation in t...
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Associated Press Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney arrives to make a foreign policy speech at Virginia Military Institute on Monday, in Lexington, Va.
Romney: America must help Syrian rebels oust leader Assad
LEXINGTON, Va. — Mitt Romney declared on Monday the U.S. must join other nations in helping arm Syrian rebels to oust Syrian President Bashar Assad, casting President Barack Obama’s efforts as weak...
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Associated Press A vial of injectable steroids from the New England Compounding Center is displayed in the Tennessee Department of Health in Nashville, Tenn. The CDC has said an outbreak of fungal meningitis may have been caused by steroids from the Massachusetts specialty pharmacy.
13,000 got suspect steroid shots; risk uncertain
NEW YORK — As many as 13,000 people received steroid shots suspected in a national meningitis outbreak, health officials said Monday. But it’s not clear how many are in danger. Officials don’t h...
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Associated Press Joe Amendola, attorney for former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, arrives for a pre-sentencing hearing at the Centre County Courthouse Monday in Bellefonte, Pa. Sandusky is scheduled to be sentenced today for sexually abusing 10 boys in a scandal that rocked the university and brought down coach Joe Paterno.
Sandusky, victims plan to speak at sentencing
BELLEFONTE, Pa. — Jerry Sandusky and at least some of his victims plan to address the judge at his sentencing, a proceeding that may last less than two hours, lawyers said after a closed-door meeti...
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Providence fight warns of pension battles elsewhere
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Cities and states around the country are shoring up battered retirement plans by reducing promised benefits to public workers and retirees. The actions taken by states vary. C...
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Associated Press World Wife Carrying Champions Taisto Miettinen and Kristina Haapanen, from Helsinki, Finland, enter the water hazard just moments before second-place finishers Jesse Wall and Christine Arsenault of South Paris during the finals of the 2012 North American Wife Carrying Championship on Saturday at Sunday River in Newry, Maine.
World champions win North America wife-carrying contest
NEWRY, Maine — A Finnish couple has added to their victories by taking first place in the North American Wife Carrying Championship at Maine’s Sunday River ski resort. Taisto Miettinen and Krist...
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Rothko mural defaced at London’s Tate Modern
LONDON — A vandal scrawled graffiti on a mural by modern American master Mark Rothko at London’s Tate Modern on Sunday. The mural, one of Rothko’s Seagram series, was defaced when a visitor to t...
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Social media among greeting card threats
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Say it’s your birthday or you’ve just had a baby, maybe got engaged or bought your first house. If you’re like many Americans, your friends are texting their congratulations, sen...
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Friends baffled by killing of Alabama student
MOBILE, Ala. — Classmates and friends are questioning why a police officer fatally shot a University of South Alabama freshman who was naked and had been banging on a window at police headquarters....
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In this Oct. 4, 2012 photo, Anita McNeil, center, wife of John G. McNeil, speaks at a Freedom for John McNeil vigil held at Holy Calvary Church in Wilson, N.C.. Anita McNeil is joined by family, friends and supporters in the effort to free John McNeil. John McNeil has been incarcerated in Georgia prisons for over 5 years for reportedly shooting an advancing trespasser at the McNeil family home in Cobb County, Georgia.(AP Photo/The Wilson Times, Gray Whitley)
Family hopes for release of man in Georgia prison
WILSON, N.C. — For seven years, Anita McNeil has tried to move on from what she calls “the incident” — that day in December 2005 when her husband shot and killed a man who threatened him outside th...
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