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FILE - In a Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2012 file photograph, the University of Tennessee Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity house is seen in Knoxville, Tenn. The fraternity was the scene of an alcohol enema incident that sent one student to the hospital and brought unwanted attention to the university. (AP Photo/Knoxville News Sentinel, J. Miles Cary, File)
Students, medics recoil at alcohol enema case
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Before an unruly Tennessee party ended with a student hospitalized for a dangerously high blood alcohol level, most people had probably never heard of alcohol enemas. Thanks t...
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Associated Press Sara Pagones, bureau chief of the new Baton Rouge Advocate New Orleans bureau, talks on the phone in her temporary workspace Thursday in New Orleans. As The Times-Picayune in New Orleans scales back its print edition to three days a week, the Baton Rouge newspaper is starting its own daily edition to try to fill the void.
In the digital age, a rare fight for print readers
NEW ORLEANS — When The Times-Picayune decided to print three days a week, a nearby publication saw a chance to expand in the newspaper’s backyard and fill a void that for some in the New Orleans ar...
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Tom Paquin of North Bennington, Vt., poses with a1950 Saturday Evening Post cover illustration by Norman Rockwell for which he modeled at the Bennington Museum on Friday, Sept. 28, 2012, in Bennington, Vt. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)
Americana portraits revisited: Rockwell’s models reuniting
MONTPELIER, Vt. — Don Trachte’s cowlick has been tamed. Mary Hall is no longer a towhead. Butch Corbett is still thin, but not the beanpole he once was. And Tom Paquin’s carrot top is thinner and g...
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‘Tomahawk chop’ pops up in Massachusetts politics
BOSTON — The manager of the Atlanta Braves sees it as a harmless way to fire up his team. A spokesman for the Navajo Nation’s president says it’s a display of such profound ignorance, it’s hard to ...
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FILE - This July 1, 1971 file photo shows New York Times president and publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, center, smiling at a news conference in New York, regarding the supreme court ruling permitting the Times to continue it's series of articles based on secret pentagon papers about U.S. involvement in Vietnam. Others in photo are unidentified. Sulzberger has died at age 86. The newspaper reports that his family says Sulzberger died Saturday, Sept. 29, 2012, at his home in Southampton, N.Y., after a long illness. He had retired in 1992 after three decades at the paper's helm and was succeeded by his son, Arthur Jr. (AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler, File)
Ex-New York Times publisher Sulzberger dies at 86
NEW YORK — Few moments in American journalism loom larger than the one that came in 1971, when New York Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger had to decide whether to defy a president, and risk a ...
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Associated Press The Supreme Court is embarking on a new term beginning Monday that could be as consequential as the last one with the prospect for major rulings about affirmative action, gay marriage and voting rights. Seated from left to right are: Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Associate Justice Antonin Scalia, Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Associate Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Standing, from left are: Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice Stephen Breyer, Associate Justice Samuel Alito Jr., and Associate Justice Elena Kagan.
Another big Supreme Court term kicks off Monday
WASHINGTON — When last we saw the chief justice of the United States on the bench, John Roberts was joining with the Supreme Court’s liberals in an unlikely lineup that upheld President Barack Obam...
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Texas congresswoman blocks aid for Egypt
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration’s plan to transfer $450 million in cash to Egypt hit a roadblock Friday as a top House committee chairwoman blocked the move, saying it warrants further review...
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Associated Press State Trooper Matt Losh emerges Friday from the backyard of a home in New Fairfield, Conn., where a fatal shooting took place. Police say Jeffrey Giuliano shot a masked teenager in self-defense during what appeared to be an attempted burglary early Thursday morning, then discovered that he had killed his son.
Homeowner kills masked son
NEW FAIRFIELD, Conn. — A small Connecticut town was sent reeling in grief and confusion Friday after a popular fifth-grade teacher shot and killed a knife-wielding prowler in a black ski mask, only...
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Presidential contest shifts focus to raising money
PHILADELPHIA — For a day, the presidential contest was almost all about money — money to wage the presidential contest, that is. Mitt Romney promised to help Americans earn more, but he and Preside...
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Amtrak workers failing drug tests
WASHINGTON — The conductors, mechanics and engineers who operate Amtrak's trains have been testing positive for drugs and alcohol more and more frequently over the last six years, a government watc...
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