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'Hobbit' bests 'Rings' with $84.8 million opening
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:33PM December 16, 2012 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — Peter Jackson's "The Hobbit" led the box office with a haul of $84.8 million, a record-setting opening better than the three previous "Lord of the Rings" films.
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Big price for inaugural pomp; much private money
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:05PM December 16, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — The pomp surrounding the inauguration of the president of the United States can carry a hefty price tag, from the glitzy galas to all those inaugural balls.
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Suicide notes tied to Casper College slaying
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:54PM December 16, 2012 CommentCASPER, Wyo. (AP) — Investigators say they have found two suicide notes written by a man who killed his father in front of a computer science class at a Wyoming community college.
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Questions of 'Why' and 'How' fill pews in CT town
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:33PM December 16, 2012 CommentNEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — Six-year-old Jennifer Waters came to Mass on Sunday at Saint Rose of Lima Roman Catholic Church with a lot of questions.
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Massive Napa do-over prompts grape plant shortage
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:55PM December 16, 2012 CommentSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Napa Valley, one of the world's premier wine growing regions, has an uncommon problem these days: not enough new grapevine root stock is available to supply the massive replanting that's under way there.
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Massive Napa do-over prompts grape plant shortage
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:53PM December 16, 2012 CommentSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A massive replanting in Napa Valley of some of the world's priciest vineyards is so widespread a critical shortage of grapevine root stock has developed.
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School yoga tries to avoid religious controversy
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:20PM December 16, 2012 CommentENCINITAS, Calif. (AP) — Public school yoga instructor Katie Campbell proudly looks out at 23 first graders as they contain their squirming in a kid-friendly version of the lotus position.
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Campaign tracking becoming year-round practice
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:33PM December 16, 2012 CommentAUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — As Maine's governor addressed the newly elected Legislature in early December, his frustration with trackers, the video camera-toting operatives who follow politicians around, boiled over into a brief diatribe that set the session off to a sour start.
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AP PHOTOS: Scenes from the Connecticut shooting
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:45PM December 16, 2012 CommentMost died at the very start of their young lives, tiny victims taken in a way not fit for anyone regardless of age. Others found their life's work in sheltering little ones, teaching them, caring for them, treating them as their own. After the gunfire ended at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the trail of loss was more than many could bear: 20 students and six adults at the school, the gunman's mother at home, and the gunman himself.
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Staffers hailed as heroes after Conn. shooting
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:17PM December 16, 2012 CommentNEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — A worker who turned on the intercom, alerting others in the building that something was very wrong. A custodian who risked his life by running through the halls warning of danger. A clerk who led 18 children on their hands and knees to safety, then gave them paper and crayons to keep them calm and quiet.
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High court fight looms over right to carry a gun
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:53PM December 16, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — The next big issue in the national debate over guns — whether people have a right to be armed in public — is moving closer to Supreme Court review.
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On foreign policy, Kerry is Obama's good soldier
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:44PM December 16, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Sen. John Kerry stands tall as President Barack Obama's good soldier.
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Fla. woman to be sentenced in husband's NY killing
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:45AM December 16, 2012 CommentWHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — A Florida woman convicted of arranging the killings of her millionaire husband and mother-in-law will hear her sentence Monday — if she's in the courtroom.
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137 police shots, 2 dead: Many questions in Ohio
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:34AM December 16, 2012 CommentCLEVELAND (AP) — A chase that ended with 13 officers firing 137 rounds, killing two people, began with a pop — perhaps a gunshot or backfire from a car speeding past police headquarters.
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Millions face higher taxes real soon without fix
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:26AM December 16, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — Millions of families and businesses will get hit by big tax increases a lot sooner than many realize if Congress and the White House don't agree on a plan to skirt the year-end fiscal cliff of higher tax rates and big government spending cuts.
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Pentagon front-runner has strong Obama ties
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:21AM December 16, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — Former Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel is a contrarian Republican moderate and decorated Vietnam combat veteran who is likely to support a more rapid withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan.
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Secretary of State faints, sustains concussion
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:26AM December 16, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sustained a concussion last week after becoming extremely dehydrated and fainting while suffering from a stomach virus, the State Department said.
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A list of victims of the Conn. school massacre
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:01AM December 16, 2012 CommentNames and ages of the 26 people gunned down at a Connecticut elementary school Friday in the second-deadliest school shooting in U.S. history:
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Could shooting be a gun-control tipping point?
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:15AM December 16, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — The question surfaces each time a mass murder unfolds: Will this one change the political calculus in Washington against tougher gun control?
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School adviser: Gunman a loner who felt no pain
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:08AM December 16, 2012 CommentSOUTHBURY, Conn. (AP) — At Newtown High School, Adam Lanza had trouble relating to fellow students and teachers, but that was only part of his problem. He seemed not to feel physical or psychological pain in the same way as classmates.
