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Associated Press Capt. Joseph Kittinger Jr., aerospace laboratory test director, sits in the open balloon gondola after his first parachute test jump for Project Excelsior at Holloman Air Force Base on Nov. 16, 1959, in Alamogordo, N.M. Felix Baumgartner broke Kittinger's world record for the highest and fastest free fall Sunday.
2 skydivers, 52 years apart, same goal
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The advice from master to student over the past three years has been simple: Be prepared. Know what to do and how to do it. “Fearless Felix” Baumgartner heeded Joe Kitting...
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Associated Press Pilot Felix Baumgartner of Austria jumps out of the capsule during the final manned flight for Red Bull Stratos on Sunday. In a giant leap from more than 24 miles up, Baumgartner shattered the sound barrier Sunday while making the highest jump ever.
Skydiver breaks sound barrier in record jump
ROSWELL, N.M. — In a giant leap from more than 24 miles up, a daredevil skydiver shattered the sound barrier Sunday while making the highest jump ever — a tumbling, death-defying plunge from a ball...
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Confederate spy honored after death
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The story of David O. Dodd is relatively unknown outside of Arkansas, but the teenage spy who chose to hang rather than betray the Confederate cause is a folk hero to many in hi...
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Feds muff kid jewelry cadmium crackdown
LOS ANGELES — Federal regulators failed to pursue recalls after they found cadmium-tainted jewelry on store shelves, despite their vow to keep the toxic trinkets out of children’s hands, an Associa...
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Study: Shots do not make girls promiscuous
CHICAGO — Shots that protect against cervical cancer do not make girls promiscuous, according to the first study to compare medical records for vaccinated and unvaccinated girls. The researchers...
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Associated Press Rolls of blank Social Security checks run through printers and are processed at the U.S. Treasury's Financial Management services facility in 2005 in Philadelphia. Preliminary figures show the annual social security benefit boost will be between 1 percent and 2 percent.
Social Security to increase slightly
WASHINGTON — Social Security recipients shouldn’t expect a big increase in monthly benefits come January. Preliminary figures show the annual benefit boost will be between 1 percent and 2 percen...
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Associated Press Paul Ryan, vice presidential running mate to Republican Mitt Romney, appears after a hunt. Romney is on the good side of the National Rifle Association, which once had qualms about him.
Fewer qualms for gun-rights groups exist over Romney
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Gun-rights groups perceive President Barack Obama as a threat to unfettered access to firearms. They once had qualms about Mitt Romney, too. But times and circumstances have ch...
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Search for body of student put on hold
DOVER, N.H. — The search for the body of a 19-year-old University of New Hampshire student was suspended Sunday ahead of the arraignment for a martial arts instructor active in community theater wh...
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Longtime GOP Senate moderate Specter dies
HARRISBURG, Pa. — For most of his 30 years as Pennsylvania’s longest-serving U.S. senator and prominent moderate in Congress, Arlen Specter was a Republican, though often at odds with the GOP leade...
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Debate preparation trumps campaigning
BURLINGTON, Mass. — As Mitt Romney’s campaign claimed new momentum in the race for the White House, President Barack Obama’s political advisers on Sunday promised the incumbent would unleash his mo...
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