May 20, 2013
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Voters pick Kelly to succeed Jackson
CHICAGO — Former Illinois state Rep. Robin Kelly, whose campaign received a $2 million boost from New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, easily captured Tuesday’s special election to replace former...
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Breach will cost millions
ST. LOUIS — Book stores. Banks. Even data security companies. They’ve all become recent targets of increasingly sophisticated, determined — some say talented — hacker gangs. The “Friendliest Sto...
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Associated Press Samuel Little appears in a courtroom for his arraignment in Los Angeles on March 4. Little, 72, awaits trial in Los Angeles as authorities in numerous jurisdictions in California, Florida, Kentucky, Missouri, Louisiana, Texas, Georgia, Mississippi and Ohio scour their own cold case files for possible ties to Little. One old murder case, in Pascagoula, Miss., already has been reopened. DNA results are pending in some others. Little's more than 100-page rap sheet details crimes in 24 states spread over 56 years, mostly assault, burglary, armed robbery, shoplifting and drug violations. But Los Angeles detectives allege he was also a serial killer, who traveled the country preying on prostitutes, drug addicts and troubled women.
Cold case arrest prompts cross-country probe
LOS ANGELES — When Los Angeles cold case detectives caught up with Samuel Little this past fall, he was living in a Christian shelter in Kentucky, his latest arrest a few months earlier for alleged...
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Family: Soldier with TN ties killed in Afghanistan
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A soldier from Florida who also has family in Tennessee was among six Americans killed in Afghanistan over the weekend in the deadliest day for the U.S. in eight months in the co...
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Bill Clinton leads college conference in St. Louis
ST. LOUIS — Former President Bill Clinton and a panel of successful entrepreneurs had a simple message Friday for college students gathered in St. Louis: Dream big, have a social conscience and com...
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Driverless cars gear up
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — To call Tim Sylvester a road builder misses the point. The streets he intends to build are embedded with electronic sensors that may keep cars of the future from speeding, veerin...
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Illinois counties notice first signs of fracking rush
ST. LOUIS — Blessed with natural resources but never enough jobs, southern Illinois counties have begun sampling the fruits of a land rush linked to a debated drilling practice that speculators bel...
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State approves utility
FRANKFORT — The state will release nearly $2 million in low-interest loans to help a small southeastern Kentucky town stop the flow of human waste into the Cumberland River during rainstorms and to...
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Inmates sue to get marriage licenses
LOUISVILLE — Sara Hudson and James Scott Keeling had a spring wedding all set: a wedding dress was picked out, a cake selected and two disposable cameras were bought to commemorate the April 26, 20...
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State to shutter costly gasoline testing lab
FRANKFORT — Agriculture Commissioner James Comer said Wednesday that he will shutter a $3 million gasoline and pesticide testing lab that was built under his predecessor Richie Farmer, saying it “h...
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