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2 FBI agents killed in training accident in Va.

32 minutes ago

(AP) Two FBI agents have been killed in a training accident in Virginia.A spokeswoman for the FBI's Norfolk office, Vanessa Torres, said Sunday that the accident happened Friday afternoon off the Virginia Beach coast.Torres says the accident is being investigated. She ...

Fate of LA pot shops left to voters

53 minutes ago

(AP) Los Angeles politicians have struggled for more than five years to regulate medical marijuana, trying to balance the needs of the sick against neighborhood concerns that pot shops attract crime.Voters will head to the polls Tuesday to decide how Los ...

US gas prices up 11 cents over past 2 weeks

1 hour, 8 minutes ago

(AP) The average U.S. price of a gallon of gasoline has jumped 11 cents over the past two weeks.The Lundberg Survey of fuel prices released Sunday says the price of a gallon of regular is $3.66. Midgrade costs an average of ...

Drug charge for Virgin Islands environment officer

1 hour, 19 minutes ago

(AP) Federal agents have arrested the top enforcement officer for the U.S. Virgin Islands environment agency on drug trafficking charges after he was allegedly caught with a cache of cocaine on a government patrol boat.In a statement issued late Saturday, the ...

Metro-North: Connecticut train outage expected to last days

1 hour, 40 minutes ago

(AP) BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — Tens of thousands of commuters are bracing for a difficult trip around southwest Connecticut and to New York City beginning Monday as workers repair the Metro-North commuter rail line crippled by a derailment and crash. Crews will ...

How the Conn. train crash will affect commuters

1 hour, 42 minutes ago

(AP) Two commuter trains collided just outside Bridgeport, Conn., on Friday evening, damaging the tracks and snarling travel in the Northeast. Here's a look at what commuters can expect Monday, as the work week gets underway, and beyond:METRO-NORTH RAILROAD SERVICE PROBLEMS:Metro-North ...

Wrong-way crash near Vegas kills 3, injures 4

3 hours, 20 minutes ago

(AP) The Nevada Highway Patrol says a wrong-way crash early Sunday near Las Vegas killed three people and critically injured four others.Troopers say a luxury car traveling the wrong way slammed head-on into an oncoming SUV on Interstate 15 near the ...

What do we eat? New food map will tell us

3 hours, 46 minutes ago

(AP) Do your kids love chocolate milk? It may have more calories on average than you thought.Same goes for soda.Until now, the only way to find out what people in the United States eat and how many calories they consume has ...

2 men arrested in teen's killing over iPad in NV

3 hours, 54 minutes ago

(AP) Las Vegas police said Sunday that two men have been arrested in the killing of a teenage boy after he refused to give up his iPAD.Police offered no immediate details of the arrests but scheduled a news conference later Sunday ...

Algerian editor accuses government of censorship

4 hours, 12 minutes ago

(AP) An editor has accused Algeria's government of censorship after it blocked the publication of his two newspapers.Hicham Aboud, editor of the My Journal and Djaridati newspapers, said that happened after he rejected an order from the Communication Ministry on Saturday ...

Portland revisits issue of public fluoridation

4 hours, 20 minutes ago

(AP) While soaking up the rays in what's been an unusually sunny season, Portlanders have broken away from their polite chatter about food, wine and outdoor adventure to fight about whether to fluoridate the water supply.Supporters and opponents of public fluoridation ...

Tea party looks to take advantage of moment

4 hours, 24 minutes ago

(AP) Is the tea party getting its groove back? Shouts of vindication from around the country suggest the movement's leaders certainly think so.They say the IRS acknowledgement that it had targeted their groups for extra scrutiny _ a claim that tea ...

Small Florida city wonders who won Powerball jackpot

4 hours, 32 minutes ago

(AP) ZEPHYRHILLS, Fla. — Some lucky person walked into a Publix supermarket in suburban Florida over the past few days and bought a ticket now worth an estimated $590.5 million — the highest Powerball jackpot in history. But it wasn't Matthew ...

Coast Guard to take testimony on Shell grounding

5 hours, 8 minutes ago

(AP) Circumstances surrounding the grounding of a Royal Dutch Shell PLC drill barge off a remote Alaska island will be explored in a public hearing in Anchorage.The Coast Guard says a marine casualty investigation into the grounding of the Kulluk (CUL'-uk) ...

Coast Guard to take testimony on Shell grounding

5 hours, 8 minutes ago

(AP) The Coast Guard will kick off hearings Monday on how a Royal Dutch Shell PLC drill barge used for Arctic Ocean exploratory drilling ended up aground off a remote Alaska island.The Kulluk was under tow and bound from the Aleutian ...

NY 'frisk' judge calls criticism 'below-the-belt'

5 hours, 8 minutes ago

(AP) The federal judge overseeing the stop-and-frisk trial that has put New York Police Department officers in the spotlight says she knows she's not the government's favorite judge.But U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin says she strives to treat the government exactly ...

Israel disputes French TV claim on boy's death

5 hours, 17 minutes ago

(AP) Israel has completed an investigation into a decade-old French TV report that claimed Israeli forces killed a Palestinian boy in a gunbattle with Palestinian militants, saying the video was misleading and unfairly blamed Israel.France 2 network's images from Sept. 30, ...

Pope: church should open up but follow teaching

5 hours, 20 minutes ago

(AP) Pope Francis is calling for renewal in the Catholic church as he wrapped up two days of mass gatherings in St. Peter's Square aimed at energizing the faithful.About 200,000 people turned out Sunday for Mass celebrated by Francis, about the ...

Zimbabwe PM: We will end police, military abuse

5 hours, 26 minutes ago

(AP) Zimbabwe's prime minister says his party will end years of bias and abuse by the police, military and intelligence services and will make sure the services uphold the country's new constitution which demands impartiality in their duties.Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai ...

Swift, Bieber, more ready for Billboard Awards

5 hours, 36 minutes ago

(AP) They battle it out weekly on the Billboard charts, and now they're competing at the Billboard Music Awards.Today's biggest stars _ from Taylor Swift to fun. to Maroon 5 _ are the key finalists at Sunday's awards show, airing live ...

Making mentally ill defendants ready for trial

5 hours, 42 minutes ago

(AP) Lawmakers in a number of states are scrambling to cut the cost of preparing mentally ill criminal defendants for trial.Dozens of states have authorized outpatient programs. And several others, including Texas, are considering plans to provide treatment in jail.Courts order ...

Obama to speak on legality of drone program

6 hours, 3 minutes ago

(AP) President Barack Obama will address the legality of his administration's controversial drone program during a speech this week.A White House official says Obama will also address other counterterrorism policies, including stalled efforts to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center.Obama pledged ...

Charlotte remembers 1963 desegregation 'eat-in'

6 hours, 16 minutes ago

(AP) In the spring of 1963, a prominent civil rights leader led dozens of protesters on a march from a predominantly African-American college campus to the center of Charlotte's downtown.At the rally, Dr. Reginald Hawkins warned city leaders that if something ...

Mice return from a month in space

7 hours, 1 minute ago

(AP) A Russian capsule carrying mice and lizards has returned to Earth after spending a month in space.Scientists say the experiment is intended to test the effects of weightlessness and other factors of space flight on cell structure.Russian state television showed ...

Obama urged to make economy a bigger, bolder topic

7 hours, 35 minutes ago

(AP) Five months into President Barack Obama's second term, allies and former top aides worry that his overarching goal of economic opportunity has been diminished, partly drowned out by controversies seized upon by Republicans in an effort to weaken him.The former ...

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