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(AP) A woman accused of withholding cancer treatment from her autistic son has been charged with attempted murder.Kristen LaBrie is scheduled to appear in Salem Superior Court on Monday on charges of attempted murder, child endangerment and permitting bodily injury to a disabled person.LaBrie's son, Jeremy, was 9 when he died ...

Obituaries in the news

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(AP) Steve McNairNASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) _ Former NFL quarterback Steve McNair, whose most noted drive was the final one of the 2000 Super Bowl, has died. He was 36.Nashville police said McNair was found dead with a gunshot wound to the head Saturday afternoon in a downtown condominium. Police spokesman Don ...

No deal: NY Senate adjourns after 3-minute session

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(AP) New York's gridlocked Senate has adjourned again after meeting in another extraordinary session called by Gov. David Paterson.No bills were debated or passed in Sunday's 3-minute session.Two Senate factions continue to refuse to recognize each other's leaders so no legislative action was made on critical bills, including some that would ...

Irish pub happy as clam, wins Mass. chowder prize

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(AP) The manager of an Irish pub in Boston is as happy as a clam.Ned Devine's Irish Pub has won a New England clam chowder contest called Chowderfest for the third time and has been elected to the event's Hall of Fame.Manager Greg Springer says it's fantastic New York City chef ...

Bus with NY prison visitors tips over, killing 1

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(AP) A bus carrying visitors to upstate New York prisons has rolled onto its side and plowed into a rock ledge on a highway in the Adirondack mountains, killing a woman pinned underneath and hurting nine others.Police are investigating what caused Sunday morning's wreck on the Adirondack Northway in the town ...

Holiday fireworks accidents kill 5 workers

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(AP) Five people working on Independence Day fireworks shows were killed by explosions, four of them by a single blast that rocked this remote village on the Outer Banks.The fifth died after an explosion at a fireworks show in Pennsylvania, police said.In another holiday accident, a pedestrian bridge collapsed in Indiana ...

Hundreds at funerals for 2 victims of SC killings

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(AP) Hundreds of mourners thronged Sunday's funeral services for an elderly mother and her daughter, two of five victims of a suspected serial killer whose crime spree has terrorized this rural South Carolina community for more than a week.Rites were held at First Baptist Church in Gaffney for 50-year-old Gena Linder ...

Observers: Palin resignation cuts losses in Alaska

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(AP) Ever since Palin returned from the presidential campaign trail, many Alaskans felt her heart wasn't in the job.Lawmakers complained she didn't take an interest in the state's politics, and she limited her access to Alaska's media. One lawmaker quipped after her state of the state address in January that the ...

AP News in Brief

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(AP) Police rule shooting of McNair a homicide; death of woman found with him still unclassifiedNASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) _ Former NFL quarterback Steve McNair's shooting death was a homicide, police said Sunday, but authorities stopped short of saying it was a murder-suicide committed by the 20-year-old girlfriend found dead by his ...

Sprinkler flooding forces evacuation of Mass. jail

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(AP) A county jail near Boston has been evacuated after officials say a group of inmates broke the sprinkler system and flooded the building.Middlesex County Sheriff James DiPaola says several inmates at the Middlesex Jail in Cambridge became unruly Sunday morning after 15 of them were sent to area hospitals with ...

Scientist may be forced to NYC terror ties hearing

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(AP) A U.S.-trained Pakistani scientist accused of helping al-Qaida and shooting at FBI agents may be forced to appear in a New York City court against her will.A defense attorney says Aafia Siddiqui (ah-FEE'-ah see-DEE'-kee) may have to appear by video or in person in Manhattan federal court Monday. The hearing ...

Holiday fireworks accidents kill 4 workers

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(AP) Four people working on Independence Day fireworks shows were killed by explosions, three of them by a single blast that rocked this remote village on the Outer Banks islands.In addition, a pedestrian bridge collapsed in Indiana as fans were leaving a fireworks show, injuring 25 people. Authorities said Sunday the ...

In Philly schools, most students get a free lunch

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(AP) For students at Thurgood Marshall Elementary School, there IS such a thing as a free lunch _ and a free breakfast, too. With no strings attached.The Philadelphia school district's unique program provides free food for all children in schools with a high percentage of low-income students, dispensing with the cumbersome ...

Harvard pres.: School has tough choices in decline

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(AP) Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust began her tenure in 2007 when the university's prosperity seeemed limitless. With its ballooning wealth, Harvard planned almost frenzied growth, from a building boom into Boston to vast increases in financial aid for students.Billions of lost endowment dollars later, though, Faust faces a much different ...

Field-to-plate: VT college students try farming

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(AP) Devin Lyons typically starts his days this summer cooking fresh eggs for breakfast from the farm's chicken coop. Then, depending on the weather, he and a dozen other college students might cut hay in the field using a team of oxen, turn compost or weed vegetable beds.While other college students ...