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(AP) Some Nevada lawmakers say doctors should tell women with dense breast tissue that mammogram results are inconclusive, but some doctors say there's no need.Democratic Assemblyman James Ohrenschall of Las Vegas is behind AB147. It requires doctors to include a statement ...
10 hours, 12 minutes ago
(AP) Prosecutors say a Tennessee pharmacy owner killed during a robbery had handed over several bottles of oxycodone before he was shot to death.Grainger County District Attorney General Jimmy Dunn made the comments Friday, one day after the owner of Down ...
10 hours, 23 minutes ago
(AP) Hezbollah's deputy chief says the European Union would be making a "big mistake" to label the Lebanese Shiite militant group "terrorist."Sheikh Naim Kassem told Al-Mayadeen TV Friday that such threats "do not concern" or worry the group. He did not ...
10 hours, 36 minutes ago
(AP) No one answered the tax-help hotline at the IRS. Forget about getting advice on avoiding foreclosures at any of the Housing and Urban Development offices nationwide.Roughly 5 percent of the federal workforce _ 115,000 people at six government agencies _ ...
10 hours, 43 minutes ago
(AP) Officials in Las Vegas say McCarran International Airport handled slightly fewer passengers in April than a year earlier.Data released Friday shows slightly more than 3.5 million people flew in and out of the airport last month. That's about 5,000 or ...
10 hours, 43 minutes ago
(AP) The Nevada Highway Patrol has seized more than 150 pounds of marijuana from the driver of a moving truck stopped on Interstate 80 near Winnemucca.Troopers say they smelled alcohol when they pulled over 33-year-old Earl Pointer of California while driving ...
10 hours, 43 minutes ago
(AP) An Elko County sheriff's deputy who pulled a car over for speeding on U.S. Interstate 80 ended up arresting the driver with 28 pounds of marijuana.Undersheriff Clair Morris says the deputy smelled marijuana when he pulled the 31-year-old Missouri man ...
10 hours, 49 minutes ago
(AP) In the wind-swept prairie called Tornado Alley, the scene is eerily familiar: Homes smashed to splinters. Trees and telephone poles snapped like twigs. Piles of bricks, overturned cars and dazed survivors sifting through rubble in search of a precious photo ...
10 hours, 49 minutes ago
(AP) Police are searching a high school in the northern Denver suburbs after a report of a man with a rifle outside the school.The search was under way midday Friday at Thornton High School and students were being evacuated. No injuries ...
11 hours, 12 minutes ago
(AP) Michelle Obama says failure is OK, but continuing to work hard is more important.That's her message to students at a Washington elementary school where the arts have been introduced to boost academic performance.The first lady said Friday she has failed ...
11 hours, 12 minutes ago
(AP) Four girls killed in an Alabama church bombing during the civil rights movement are receiving the highest honor Congress gives to civilians.President Barack Obama signed legislation Friday to posthumously award the Congressional Gold Medal to Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson, ...
11 hours, 20 minutes ago
(AP) A 44-year-old Fernley man has been sentenced to more than 22 years in federal prison for soliciting children for sex over the Internet.U.S. District Court Judge Howard McKibben sentenced Vincent Charles Fasone Wednesday after he pleaded guilty in January to ...
11 hours, 20 minutes ago
(AP) In a story May 22 about the U.S. Interior Department awarding more than $20 million in grants for water conservation projects, The Associated Press, relying on information provided by the federal agency, reported erroneously that the North Yuba Water District ...
11 hours, 27 minutes ago
(AP) The lawyer for a Maine man charged with killing a 15-year-old girl wants a judge to keep affidavits and search warrants with details about the case under seal.Stephen Smith, lawyer for Kyle Dube (DOO'-bee), filed the motion Friday, a day ...
11 hours, 27 minutes ago
(AP) The National Farm Medicine Center is working with farmers and firefighters in Wisconsin to create digital maps of hazards on farms.The idea is that farmers will enter information into a password-protected database that's tied to a Quick Response, or QR, ...
12 hours, 3 minutes ago
(AP) Since 1953, there have been 2,115 major disasters declared in the United States and U.S. territories. Disasters by state, including Monday's tornado in Oklahoma:Alabama: 57Alaska: 38Arizona: 23Arkansas: 54California: 78Colorado: 17Connecticut: 19Delaware: 15District of Columbia: 13Florida: 65Georgia: 36Hawaii: 26Idaho: 23Illinois: 52Indiana: ...
12 hours, 3 minutes ago
(AP) Gun owners in the only state still banning concealed weapons would win that right under a plan approved by the Illinois House on Friday, but the governor and other powerful Democrats oppose the plan because it would wipe out local ...
12 hours, 3 minutes ago
(AP) The last of the Arellano Felix brothers who founded an infamous Mexican drug cartel has pleaded guilty in San Diego to helping ship hundreds of millions of dollars in proceeds from the United States.Eduardo Arellano Felix pleaded guilty Friday under ...
12 hours, 24 minutes ago
(AP) Government health officials are investigating several health problems reported with potentially contaminated medications made by a Tennessee specialty pharmacy.The Food and Drug Administration says it has received seven reports involving patients who received steroid injections from Main Street Family Pharmacy, ...
12 hours, 38 minutes ago
(AP) Many states get hit frequently with tornadoes and other natural catastrophes, but Oklahoma is Disaster Central.The twister that devastated Moore, Okla., was the 74th presidential disaster declared in the Sooner state in the past 60 years. Only much-larger and more-populous ...
12 hours, 39 minutes ago
(AP) The Arizona Department of Public Safety has launched an investigation into lawmakers' safety after at least nine legislators received threatening emails over Gov. Jan Brewer's push to expand Medicaid.Officials said Friday that the sender of the email asked the lawmakers ...
12 hours, 39 minutes ago
(AP) A southwestern Illinois judge whose colleague died of a cocaine overdose while the two were on a hunting trip together has been charged with possession of heroin and guns.St. Clair County Circuit Judge Michael Cook pleaded not guilty during a ...
13 hours, 16 minutes ago
(AP) A family member says an Army veteran charged with killing a police officer and wounding five others in a Utah shootout during a marijuana raid has been found dead at Weber County jail.Michael Stewart said Friday his son Matthew David ...
13 hours, 16 minutes ago
(AP) Syria says it targeted an Israeli vehicle that crossed a ceasefire line into its territory earlier this week because it was heading toward a village with a large rebel presence.In a letter to the U.N. Security Council circulated Friday, Syria's ...
13 hours, 28 minutes ago
(AP) Venezuela's president has ordered the creation of a new workers' militia as part of an existing pro-government fighting force.President Nicolas Maduro gave few details about the militia including how many members it would consist of.It would be part of the ...
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