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Officials scale back search for abducted Iowa teen

53 minutes ago

(AP) Authorities are scaling back their search for a missing Iowa teenager abducted from a rural school bus stop this week.The state Department of Public Safety says trained law enforcement will narrow their search around Dayton on Saturday for 15-year-old Kathlynn ...

Parolee indicted in theft of Gold Rush jewelry box

1 hour, 31 minutes ago

(AP) A parolee was indicted by a federal grand jury in the theft of a valuable Gold Rush-era jewelry box from the Oakland Museum of California, authorities said Friday.Andre Taray Franklin, 45, of Oakland was charged Thursday with theft of major ...

Judge: Ariz. sheriff's office profiles Latinos

1 hour, 31 minutes ago

(AP) A federal judge has ruled that the office of America's self-proclaimed toughest sheriff systematically racially profiled Latinos in its trademark immigration patrols.The decision Friday by U.S. District Judge Murray Snow marks the first finding by a court that Maricopa County ...

I-5 bridge survivor: 'I can't believe we're alive'

2 hours, 8 minutes ago

(AP) Bryce Kenning saw the void before him in an explosion of dust, and there was nothing he could do."It was like time was frozen _ like a roller coaster where you're not attached to the tracks," he said Friday. "It's ...

Journalist and author Haynes Johnson dies at 81

2 hours, 8 minutes ago

(AP) The Washington Post is reporting that Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Haynes Johnson has died. He was 81.The newspaper reported Johnson died Friday at a Bethesda hospital.Johnson was awarded a Pulitzer in 1966 for reporting on the civil rights struggle in Selma, ...

LA sanitation ends plans for dump near Joshua Tree

2 hours, 46 minutes ago

(AP) A regional garbage collection agency has tossed out plans to build a mega-landfill for Los Angeles' trash less than two miles from Joshua Tree National Park in the remote Southern California desert.Increased recycling and new waste treatment technologies have reduced ...

Pharmaceutical co. ISTA pleads in NY federal case

3 hours, 45 minutes ago

(AP) Drug-maker ISTA (IS'-tah) Pharmaceuticals has pleaded guilty in New York in a federal case involving its eye drug Xibrom (ZY'-brum) and has agreed to pay more than $30 million.The Department of Justice says the case was settled in U.S. District ...

DA: Victims shot after drugs handed over

4 hours, 36 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 ...

Can Tornado Alley become safer? Yes, within limits

5 hours, 14 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 ...

Colo. school searched after report of armed man

5 hours, 14 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 ...

Wis. farmers, firefighters partner on hazards maps

5 hours, 51 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, ...

Lawyer wants documents in Maine teen death sealed

5 hours, 51 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 ...

US disasters by state for past 60 years

6 hours, 27 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: ...

Ill. House approves guns plan opposed by governor

6 hours, 28 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 ...

Arellano Felix drug cartel figure pleads guilty

6 hours, 28 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 ...

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