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(AP) When the time came to vaccinate her 4-year-old daughter, Yelena Hlushko hesitated, spooked by widespread fears in Ukraine about vaccines and by a boil her older child developed after an immunization shot. Eventually she decided to follow the government's recommendation ...
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(AP) Fewer U.S. adults are smoking, a new government report says.Last year, about 18 percent of adults participating in a national health survey described themselves as current smokers.The nation's smoking rate generally has been falling for decades, but had seemed to ...
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(AP) In one of the biggest-ever showdowns between an automaker and the government, Chrysler on Tuesday is expected to file papers explaining its refusal to recall 2.7 million older Jeep SUVs that are at risk of catching fire in rear-end collisions.The ...
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(AP) The National Transportation Safety Board has issued an urgent safety recommendation after a railroad track foreman was struck and killed by a passenger train last month in Connecticut.The agency Monday urged the Metro-North Railroad to provide backup protection for track ...
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(AP) A California man who made a 911 call that ended with Pasadena police fatally shooting a college student has pleaded guilty to making a false report.Oscar Carrillo was sentenced to 90 days in jail after pleading guilty Monday to two ...
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(AP) New airborne laser scanning data has uncovered a network of roadways and canals, illustrating an entire bustling ancient city linking Cambodia's famed Angkor Wat temples complex.The discovery was announced late Monday in a peer-reviewed paper released early by the journal ...
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(AP) A commuter train from New York City to Long Island has become disabled and may have derailed in a tunnel under the East River. No injuries have been reported.Metropolitan Transportation Authority spokeswoman Marjorie Anders says it happened around 6 p.m.The ...
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(AP) Legions of New York City apartment dwellers will soon be asked _ and may eventually be forced _ to start collecting food scraps for composting.The city launched a test program recently in 3,500 Staten Island homes and some Manhattan apartment ...
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(AP) The deputy administrator of the main compensation fund for Boston Marathon bombing victims says it has received 247 claims so far.The One Fund's Camille Biros says a few more are expected to arrive over the next couple of days. Saturday ...
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(AP) Police say four people who were sitting on an outdoor patio at a restaurant in Annapolis, Md., were struck by a car that jumped the curb.Anne Arundel County police say it happened about 1:25 p.m. Monday at Zoe's Kitchen. Officers ...
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(AP) A central Ohio day care worker has been accused of sprinkling drugs on snacks to get children to go to sleep.Tammy Eppley was charged Monday in Columbus with six counts of child endangering after police in nearby Westerville said they ...
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(AP) A Mississippi woman has been charged in a second death related to giving buttocks-enhancing injections without being trained or licensed.The state attorney general's office says 53-year-old Tracey Lynn Garner of Jackson, formerly known as Morris Garner, was arrested Thursday and ...
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(AP) A dispute over public access to court records in the case of Pfc. Bradley Manning has moved to a civilian court.The New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights asked an Army court in 2012 for access to documents in the court-martial, ...
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(AP) The U.S. Naval Academy's superintendent has decided to move ahead with proceedings in a sexual assault case involving football players and a female midshipman.The academy announced Monday that Vice Adm. Michael Miller has decided to send the case to Article ...
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(AP) A former U.S. Marine facing extradition to the Philippines on double murder charges says he is innocent.Timothy Kaufman has been in jail since his arrest in April at business near his grandfather's Albany-area home. The 35-year-old from Knoxville, Tenn., is ...
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