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Parents fight for release of son jailed in Mexico
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:55PM December 11, 2012 CommentMIAMI (AP) — A South Florida family is fighting to get their son, a Marine veteran, released from a prison in a dangerous area in Mexico while facing charges that he carried across the border a shotgun with a barrel that's an inch too short.
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'Cliff' movement? Obama, Boehner trade proposals
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:37PM December 11, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — In a test of divided government, President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner sought an elusive compromise Tuesday to prevent economy-damaging tax increases on the middle class at year's end, conferring by phone after a secretive exchange of proposals.
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Florida executes ex-cop for killing 9 in 1986
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:05PM December 11, 2012 CommentSTARKE, Fla. (AP) — A former police officer who murdered nine people during a 1986 crime spree was executed Tuesday after his attorneys' last-minute appeals were rejected.
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Americans finding dozens of ways to mark 12-12-12
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:42PM December 11, 2012 CommentA Michigan sixth-grader will put aside her nerves and get her ears pierced on her 12th birthday. Two law-enforcement officials will exchange wedding vows at 12:12 p.m. in Pittsburgh's federal courthouse. And gamblers can take advantage of promotions some casinos are using to lure in patrons who want to test their luck.
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Senator: Rock removal on Mississippi to start soon
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:25PM December 11, 2012 CommentST. LOUIS (AP) — Crews might be allowed to begin destroying two rock pinnacles impeding barge traffic on the Mississippi River as early as next week, more than a month ahead of schedule, a senator said Tuesday, cautioning that further steps may be needed to ensure the vital shipping route remains open.
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Michigan lawmakers approve right-to-work bills
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:14PM December 11, 2012 CommentLANSING, Mich. (AP) — Over the chants of thousands of angry protesters, Republican lawmakers made Michigan a right-to-work state Tuesday, dealing a devastating and once-unthinkable defeat to organized labor in a place that has been a bastion of the movement for generations.
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Families fear Sandy killed cottages, traditions
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:28PM December 11, 2012 CommentBRIGANTINE, N.J. (AP) — The small yellow cottage has always been more than a house to Bob Bratek and his family. It was their tiny slice of oceanfront heaven, a repository of family memories built in the '60s with the hands of three generations of Brateks and any materials they could find.
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Saints' suspensions tossed out in bounty case
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:15PM December 11, 2012 CommentNEW ORLEANS (AP) — Finding fault with nearly everyone tied to the New Orleans Saints' bounty case, from the coaches to Roger Goodell, former NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue tossed out the suspensions of four players Tuesday and condemned the team for obstructing the investigation.
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SD mother of 1st surviving US quintuplets dies
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:05PM December 11, 2012 CommentSIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — As the mother of five children in a small South Dakota town, the limelight was the furthest thing from Mary Ann Darling Fischer's mind. All that changed on Sept. 14, 1963, when Fischer gave birth to the first known surviving quintuplets in the United States.
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Top chefs join call for gender-neutral Easy-Bake
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:04PM December 11, 2012 CommentPROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Some well-known male chefs are getting behind a New Jersey girl's call for Hasbro to make a gender-neutral Easy-Bake Oven.
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DA investigating Texas' troubled $3B cancer agency
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:41PM December 11, 2012 CommentAUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Turmoil surrounding an unprecedented $3 billion cancer-fighting effort in Texas worsened Tuesday when its executive director offered his resignation and the state's chief public corruption prosecutor announced an investigation into the beleaguered agency.
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Obama: US recognizes Syria's main rebel group
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:35PM December 11, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama declared Syria's main opposition group the sole "legitimate representative" of its country's people Tuesday, deeming the move "a big step" in the international diplomatic efforts to end Syrian President Bashar Assad's embattled regime.
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NY, 6 other states suing EPA over drilling methane
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:33PM December 11, 2012 CommentPITTSBURGH (AP) — Seven Northeastern and mid-Atlantic states announced plans Tuesday to sue the Environmental Protection Agency, saying it is violating the Clean Air Act by failing to address methane emissions from oil and gas drilling, which has boomed in nearby states such as Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
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Court strikes down Illinois' concealed carry ban
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:19PM December 11, 2012 CommentCHICAGO (AP) — In a major victory for gun rights advocates, a federal appeals court on Tuesday struck down a ban on carrying concealed weapons in Illinois — the only remaining state where carrying concealed weapons is entirely illegal — and gave lawmakers 180 days to write a law that legalizes it.
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Medical helicopter hit bad weather before crash
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:28PM December 11, 2012 CommentCHICAGO (AP) — A medical helicopter pilot hit bad weather and was trying to return to the hospital hangar shortly before the aircraft crashed into a northern Illinois field, killing him and two nurses, authorities said Tuesday.
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Why efforts to stop factory fires have failed
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:22PM December 11, 2012 CommentAbout a year and a half before a fire at a clothing factory in Bangladesh killed 112 people in November, executives from Wal-Mart, Gap and other big retailers met nearby to discuss ways to prevent the unsafe working conditions that have made such tragedies common.
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Air Force Sends Mystery Mini-Shuttle Back to Space
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:05PM December 11, 2012 Comment
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket, carrying an X-37B experimental robotic space plane, lifts off from launch complex 41 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012, in Cape Canaveral, Fla.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The military's small, top-secret version of the space shuttle rocketed into orbit Tuesday for a repeat mystery mission, two years after making the first flight of its kind.
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Texas judge halts TransCanada oil pipeline work
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:58PM December 11, 2012 CommentHOUSTON (AP) — A Texas judge has ordered TransCanada to temporarily halt work on a private property where it is building part of an oil pipeline designed to carry tar sands oil from Canada to the Gulf Coast, the latest legal battle to plague a project that has encountered numerous obstacles nationwide.
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Somali woman gets prison for terror support
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:45PM December 11, 2012 CommentSAN DIEGO (AP) — A Somali-born woman has been sentenced in San Diego to eight years in prison for routing money to a terrorist organization in her native country.
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2 Ala. men arrested on federal terrorism charges
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:31PM December 11, 2012 CommentMOBILE, Ala. (AP) — Two Alabama men who federal investigators say wanted to wage violent jihad overseas have been arrested in Georgia on terrorism charges, and one has close ties to another man previously identified as an Islamic terror leader, authorities said Tuesday.
