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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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, ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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, ...
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(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 ...
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(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: ...
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(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 ...
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(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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