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ALBANY, N.Y. — The son of Malcolm X’s biographer is asking Syracuse University to hand over a letter in which the slain activist writes about his shifting views on race relations, claiming his fami...
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A newspaper with a photograph of Etan Patz is part of a makeshift memorial in the SoHo neighborhood of New York, Monday, May 28, 2012. For prosecutors, the work is just beginning after the astonishing arrest last week of a man who police say confessed to strangling the 6-year-old New York City boy 33 years ago in one of the nation's most bewildering missing children's cases. Pedro Hernandez, 51, was charged with second-degree murder in the 1979 death of Etan Patz, based largely on a signed confession he gave to detectives. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
Patz suspect’s mental illness history could be key
By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK — Pedro Hernandez has confessed to killing the 6-year-old boy at the heart of one of the nation’s most prominent missing-child cases, police say. A...
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Doc Watson influenced generations of guitar players
RALEIGH, N.C. — Doc Watson, the blind Grammy-award winning folk musician whose mountain-rooted sound was embraced by generations and whose lightning-fast style of flatpicking influenced guitarists ...
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Associated Press Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaks on May 23 in Washington. Romney clinched the Republican nomination for president Tuesday with a win in the Texas primary, a feat of endurance for a candidate who came up short four years ago.
Romney clinches GOP nomination
WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney clinched the Republican presidential nomination Tuesday with a win in the Texas primary, a triumph of endurance for a candidate who came up short four years ago and had to ...
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Associated Press Lori Anne Madison, 6, of Lake Ridge, Va., walks through river water while playing with friends in a park in McLean, Va., on Friday. Lori Anne is the youngest contestant in the 2012 National Spelling Bee.
Girl, 6, youngest ever to participate in Scripps National Spelling Bee
McLEAN, Va. — The youngest person ever to qualify for the National Spelling Bee was running around in a stream with a friend, hunting for rocks. Suddenly, she came charging up the bank and headed s...
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Are foster kids helped, harmed by open hearings?
MIAMI — A California judge’s decision to open a county’s child welfare hearings earlier this year has energized a debate among advocates in other states about whether greater transparency helps or ...
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Associated Press First lady Michelle Obama and Jill Biden help kids assemble their Mother's Day gifts as they host a Joining Forces event in honor of military mothers at the White House on May 10. The first lady's new book takes a non-political approach, focusing on planting gardens and growing children.
First lady publishes gardening book
WASHINGTON — From the beginning, Michelle Obama’s kitchen garden has been an overachiever, churning out more peppers, parsley and eggplant than expected, and generating interest that — yes, really ...
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Associated Press People and speakers gather at the African-American Civil War Memorial in Washington in this AP file photo to pay tribute to black veterans, including 18 former slaves who fought in the Civil War and later founded the village of Unionville, Md. The fall of New Orleans in May 1862 to Union forces triggered a dash for freedom as thousands of slaves sought refuge with the occupying army.
Fall of New Orleans foothold for emancipation
NEW ORLEANS — They marched out of cotton and cane fields, away from the kitchens, the laundries and the rows of cabins standing behind white-columned plantations. In May 1862, the fall of New Orlea...
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GOP uses student comments on debt against Obama in ad
CONCORD, N.H. — New Hampshire isn’t just first in the nation when it comes to hosting presidential primaries. It also ranks first in student-loan debt, and now the winner of the state’s Republican ...
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Associated Press President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Maj. Gen. Michael S. Linnington, Commander of the U.S. Army Military District of Washington, and first lady Michelle Obama arrive for the Memorial Day ceremony at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall on the National Mall in Washington. Obama addressed Vietnam War veterans, saying they were "sometimes denigrated" instead of celebrated.
Obama addresses Vietnam vets
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama paid tribute Monday to the men and women who have died defending America, pointing to Vietnam veterans as an under-appreciated and sometimes maligned group of wa...
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