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(AP) U.S. Sen. John McCain predicted success in the Afghan war effort Friday if President Barack Obama makes a decision quickly to send the reinforcements requested by his top commander there.The Arizona senator told a news conference at the Halifax International Security Forum that the delay in reaching a decision on ...
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(AP) A retired State Department worker and his wife accused of a three-decade-long plot to spy for Cuba have pleaded guilty in federal court.Walter Kendall Myers and wife, Gwendolyn _ both in their 70s _ were caught in an undercover FBI sting operation, arrested in June and held without bail.U.S. District ...
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(AP) A federal appeals court in San Francisco has rejected three grape growers' challenge to a mandatory advertising campaign for California table grapes.Susan Neill Fresh Fruit and Lucas Brothers companies, both based in Visalia, and Delano Farms Co. claimed the California Table Grape Commission violated their free speech rights by requiring ...
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(AP) Federal officials say Asian carp may have breached an electronic barrier designed to prevent the giant invaders from upsetting the ecosystem in the Great Lakes and jeopardizing a $7 billion sport fisheryMaj. Gen. John Peabody of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says scientists recently collected 32 DNA samples of ...
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(AP) A Pennsylvania university's requirement that overweight undergraduates take a fitness course to receive their degrees has raised the hackles of students and the eyebrows of health and legal experts.Officials at historically black Lincoln University said Friday that the school is simply concerned about high rates of obesity and diabetes, especially ...
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(AP) Students barricaded themselves inside buildings on University of California campuses to protest a 32 percent increase in student fees and budget cuts that have led to slashed programs and lost jobs.Demonstrators at UC Berkeley occupied Wheeler Hall on Friday and hung a sign from a window that read "32 Percent ...
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(AP) The ringleader of a group of men convicted of plotting to destroy Chicago's Sears Tower and bomb FBI offices has been sentenced to 13 1/2 years in prison.U.S. District Judge Joan Lenard issued the sentence Friday in Miami for 35-year-old Narseal Batiste. Prosecutors had sought the maximum 70-year sentence.Four other ...
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(AP) Prosecutors say they'll drop manslaughter charges against one of the Blackwater Worldwide contractors charged in a deadly 2007 Baghdad shooting.In court documents Friday, prosecutors said they have asked that the case against Nicholas Slatten of Sparta, Tenn., be dropped.The request itself was sealed, so it's unclear why the case was ...
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(AP) Nevada game wardens are seeking information about two elk poached in northern Elko County near the Idaho line.Nevada Department of Wildlife the cow elk and a calf were shot in the head with a high powered rifle and left to waste. They were found Tuesday at Young American Creek near ...
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(AP) Two former Pennsylvania judges accused of taking kickbacks to supply private detention facilities with juveniles have been granted partial immunity from civil liability.U.S. District Judge Richard Caputo said Friday that former Luzerne County Judges Michael Conahan and Mark Ciavarella (shiv-uh-REL'-uh) are entitled to partial immunity from lawsuits filed by former ...
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(AP) The decision to move Johannes Mehserle's trial to Los Angeles County is a setback for the former transit officer charged with killing an unarmed man on New Year's Day.Jurors throughout California are typically sympathetic to police, and the former Bay Area Rapid Transit officer could've expected a leg up before ...
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(AP) The decision to move Johannes Mehserle's trial to Los Angeles County is a setback for the former transit officer charged with killing an unarmed man on New Year's Day.Jurors throughout California are typically sympathetic to police, and the former Bay Area Rapid Transit officer could've expected a leg up before ...
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(AP) South Carolina lawmakers plan to formally consider impeaching Gov. Mark Sanford for the first time next week, the chairman of the committee beginning that work said Friday.House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Harrison told The Associated Press he is appointing an ad-hoc committee of four Republicans and three Democrats who will ...
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(AP) Authorities in the western Mexican state of Michoacan are investigating the disappearance of a journalist who wrote about organized crime.Michoacan state's attorney general says police are looking for people who had contact with Mexican reporter Maria Esther Aguilar before she disappeared on Nov. 11.The weekly newspaper El Cambio de Michoacan ...
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(AP) A Vatican researcher has rekindled the age-old debate over the Shroud of Turin, saying that faint writing on the linen proves it was the burial cloth of Jesus.Experts say the historian may be reading too much into the markings, and they stand by carbon-dating that points to the shroud being ...
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(AP) Several doctors groups and advocacy groups set guidelines for cancer screening, and they update that advice periodically as new information emerges. Sometimes they agree, sometimes they don't. Last year, a number of groups got together and issued consensus guidelines for colon cancer.The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, a government-appointed, independent ...
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(AP) A grand jury has indicted an alleged Bakersfield gang member in the shooting deaths of three men.Kern County prosecutors went to a grand jury to decide whether 23-year-old Kerry Hastings should stand trial for the murders, in lieu of a preliminary hearing.Hastings is charged in the June killing of Anthony ...
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(AP) ATP chairman Adam Helfant says the tour will not reopen a doping case against Andre Agassi even though he admitted to lying about using crystal meth in 1997.Agassi revealed in his recent autobiography that he failed a 1997 drug test, a result he says was thrown out after he lied ...
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(AP) The rumble of Navy patrol aircraft overhead will soon be a thing of the past as the remaining P-3 Orions depart from Brunswick Naval Air Station in Maine.Air crews are prepping to ship out for a six-month deployment to El Salvador, Italy and the Horn of Africa. After that, they'll ...
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(AP) An attorney for a condemned killer says Ohio's new lethal-injection plan is so untested it would amount to human experimentation if used for the first time next month.Lawyer Tim Sweeney said Friday there's no reason for federal courts to allow the scheduled execution of Kenneth Biros (BY'-rohs) in about two ...
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(AP) The walls that the rockets blew out have not been repaired, and the plaster is a dense scattershot of bullet holes. Dozens of holes, blasted by grenades, pockmark the linoleum floors.One year after the terror attack that left 166 people dead, the Chabad House _ a once-popular site with Jewish ...
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(AP) A retired State Department worker and his wife are preparing to plead guilty to conspiring to send sensitive information to Cuba, according to a Friday court filing.Walter Kendall Myers, 72, and wife, Gwendolyn, 71, were caught in an undercover FBI sting operation, arrested in June and held without bail.They are ...
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(AP) The government says an accused spy for Cuba has agreed to plead guilty.Retired State Department official Walter Kendall Myers, 72, and wife Gwendolyn were caught in an undercover FBI sting operation, arrested in June and held without bail.They are accused of three decades of spying for Cuba.According to a criminal ...
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(AP) An Illinois insurance executive accused of secretly making nude videos of ESPN reporter Erin Andrews is expected to appear in court for the first time.Michael Barrett was due in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles on Friday to face one count of interstate stalking.At the hearing, charges will be read ...
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(AP) An independent panel says the United States can extend the life of aging nuclear weapons for decades with existing programs, a finding that activists contend means there's no need for the nation to design replacements for the nuclear arsenal.The findings of the JASON committee are classified, but an unclassified summary ...
