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Associated Press A monument stands next to wreckage from a B-52 bomber in December on Elephant Mountain near Greenville, Maine. The plane's 40-foot-tall vertical stabilizer had snapped off and crashed on Jan. 24, 1963. Seven of the nine people on board died in the crash.
Fateful B-52 flight crash revealed deadly weakness
ELEPHANT MOUNTAIN, Maine — Flying low over snowy terrain on a Cold War training mission, Lt. Col. Dan Bulli’s massive B-52 bomber hit turbulence that shook the plane so violently that he couldn’t r...
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Associated Press A United Airlines 787 Dreamliner arrives Nov. 4 at O'Hare international Airport in Chicago from Houston. The Regional Transportation Authority says it will file a lawsuit today, alleging that United Airlines subsidy United Aviation Fuels is falsely claiming to buy jet fuel out of a small office in a rural Illinois community to avoid paying tens of millions of dollars in taxes in Chicago, where the purchases are allegedly being made.
RTA: United running ‘sham’ business
CHICAGO — A transportation agency plans to file a lawsuit Monday alleging that United Airlines is falsely claiming to buy huge amounts of jet fuel out of a small, rural Illinois office that doesn’t...
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Senator raises issue of Hagel’s ‘temperament’
WASHINGTON — A Republican senator says he thinks the issue of “overall temperament” will come up during former Sen. Chuck Hagel’s confirmation hearing to be defense secretary. Tennessee Sen. Bob...
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NRA: Congress won’t pass gun ban
WASHINGTON — The powerful gun lobby is gauging enough support in Congress to block a law that would ban assault weapons, despite promises from the White House and senior lawmakers to make such a me...
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Priest, ex-teacher face sex trial in Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA — The second trial to stem from a landmark investigation of priest sexual abuse in the Philadelphia Archdiocese is set to start Monday. The accuser says he was abused by two Roman C...
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FILE - In this Monday, Jan. 7, 2013 file photo, retired soccer player Alexi Lalas, rear center, watches children play during a visit by MLS and United States national team players to the Newtown Youth Academy in Newtown, Conn. The event, which was set up by Houston Dynamo general manager and Connecticut native Chris Canetti, featured about 40 current and former soccer players interacting with and signing autographs for about 1,000 children in a community that was devastated by the deadly shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School. (AP Photo/Pat Eaton-Robb, File)
Athletes from college to pro offer pick-me-up in Newtown
NEWTOWN, Conn. — Newtown first-grader Katelyn Sullivan has been sleeping in her parents’ bed since last month’s massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary school. Katelyn, who attends another school in t...
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Critics complain Sandy aid tied to other projects
WASHINGTON — Conservatives and watchdog groups are mounting a “not-so-fast” campaign against a $50.7 billion Superstorm Sandy aid package that Northeastern governors and lawmakers hope to push thro...
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FILE - In this file photo taken Oct. 17, 2012, Bill Staples, a Mississippi Department of Health employee, is given a flu vaccine shot by registered nurse Rosemary Jones, also with the health department, in Jackson, Miss. A survey by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention researchers found that in 2011, more than 400 U.S. hospitals required flu vaccinations for their employees and 29 hospitals fired employees that were not vaccinated against the virus. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)
Hospitals crack down on workers refusing flu shots
CHICAGO — Patients can refuse a flu shot. Should doctors and nurses have that right, too? That is the thorny question surfacing as U.S. hospitals increasingly crack down on employees who won’t get ...
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Steubenville police Chief William McCafferty sits behind a computer in his captains office as he tells how he gave the FBI an email that he had opened earlier which disabled his computer on Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013, in Steubenville, Ohio. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
Online hacker threats complicate Ohio school rape investigation case
STEUBENVILLE, Ohio — Shortly after Police Chief William McCafferty arrived at the office one day this week, he found an email from someone claiming to be a hacker from Ontario with a tip. Moments l...
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Journalist Charlie Rose, right, smiles as he interviews Robert F. Kennedy, Rory Kennedy, center, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in front of a full audience at the AT&T Performing Arts Center Friday, Jan. 11, 2013, in Dallas. The Kennedys are in Dallas as a year of observances begins for the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's assassination. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
Kennedy children speak about JFK assassination in Dallas
DALLAS — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is convinced that a lone gunman wasn’t solely responsible for the assassination of his uncle, President John F. Kennedy, and said his father believed the Warren Commi...
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