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AP Exclusive: Knox boyfriend maintains innocence
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:05AM September 12, 2012 CommentSEATTLE (AP) — Raffaele Sollecito, whose budding love affair with American exchange student Amanda Knox helped land him in an Italian prison for four years, maintains the couple's innocence in a new book but acknowledges that their sometimes bizarre behavior after her roommate's killing gave police reason for suspicion.
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White House Big Dig ending, but what comes next?
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:52AM September 12, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — The White House Big Dig is finally wrapping up, but the Big Reveal is proving to be a pretty big letdown.
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Delayed deportations approved ahead of elections
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:50AM September 12, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — Less than two months before a presidential election in which both parties are fighting for the key Hispanic vote, the Obama administration has approved the first wave of applications from young illegal immigrants hoping to avoid deportation and get a work permit.
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First group of delayed young deportees approved
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:55PM September 11, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — Just three weeks after the Obama administration started accepting applications from young illegal immigrants seeking to avoid deportation and get a work permit, the government already has approved some of the roughly 72,000 applications the government has received.
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Parents support Chicago teachers but for how long?
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:35PM September 11, 2012 CommentCHICAGO (AP) — As Chicago teachers walked the picket lines for a second day, they were joined by many of the very people who are most inconvenienced by their strike: the parents who must now scramble to find a place for children to pass the time or for baby sitters.
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Salton Sea fingered as culprit of big Calif. stink
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:30PM September 11, 2012 CommentSANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — After a day of "odor surveillance" and other scent-based sleuthing, Southern California air quality investigators confirmed Tuesday what they had already expected — that a pungent, rotten-egg aroma that stretched across the region came from the Salton Sea.
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Clinton confirms State officer killed in Libya
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:36PM September 11, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has confirmed that a State Department officer was killed Tuesday in Libya during an attack on the U.S. consulate.
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AP Exclusive: Knox boyfriend maintains innocence
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:04PM September 11, 2012 CommentSEATTLE (AP) — Raffaele Sollecito, whose budding love affair with American exchange student Amanda Knox helped land him in an Italian prison for four years, maintains the couple's innocence in a new book but acknowledges that their sometimes bizarre behavior after her roommate's killing gave police reason for suspicion.
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Officials: Mich. man who killed cop had arsenal
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:30PM September 11, 2012 CommentWEST BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A businessman who gunned down a police officer at his suburban Detroit home held authorities at bay for hours with an arsenal of high-powered rifles and other weapons before finally killing himself, officials said Tuesday.
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Chicago teacher strike poses test for unions
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:15PM September 11, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — The massive teachers' strike in Chicago offers a high-profile test for the nation's teachers' unions, which have seen their political influence threatened as a growing reform movement seeks to improve ailing public schools.
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Administration urges terror surveillance renewal
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:54PM September 11, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration maintains it is unable to say how many times one of the government's most politically sensitive anti-terrorism surveillance programs — which is up for renewal this week on Capitol Hill — has inadvertently gathered intelligence about U.S. citizens.
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How the nation and world commemorated 9/11
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:38PM September 11, 2012 CommentA look at some commemorations on the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks:
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Smaller memorials on 11th anniversary of 9/11
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:26PM September 11, 2012 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — There were still the tearful messages to loved ones, clutches of photos and flowers, and moments of silence. But 11 years after Sept. 11, Americans appeared to enter a new, scaled-back chapter of collective mourning for the worst terror attack in U.S history.
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Lawyers: Iowa CEO to plead guilty to $200M fraud
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:06PM September 11, 2012 CommentCEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — The founder of an Iowa brokerage has signed a plea agreement with federal prosecutors in which he admits to carrying out a $200 million fraud and embezzlement scheme that bankrupted his company and could result in him spending the rest of his life in prison, prosecutors said Tuesday.
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Salvadoran accused in 1989 killings admits US lies
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:45PM September 11, 2012 CommentBOSTON (AP) — A former El Salvadoran military official accused of colluding in the 1989 slayings of six Jesuit priests admitted Tuesday that he lied to U.S. immigration officials, a guilty plea that could allow him to be extradited to Spain for prosecution in the killings.
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Father, his brother charged in fatal Wis. fire
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:29PM September 11, 2012 CommentMADISON, Wis. (AP) — A southwestern Wisconsin man set his house on fire in hopes of killing his family because his wife was always complaining about money and he wanted a fresh start, according to a criminal complaint filed Tuesday charging him and his brother with killing his three sons.
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Obama: US safer, resilient on 9/11 anniversary
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:22PM September 11, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama are at Arlington National Cemetery visiting the graves of service members killed in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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Dry Northwest burns as fire season in West extends
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:05PM September 11, 2012 CommentWENATCHEE, Wash. (AP) — A haze of thick smoke formed Tuesday over vast swaths of the West as wildfires forced more residents to flee their homes in several states.
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NJ woman denies causing penis injection death
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:03PM September 11, 2012 CommentNEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey woman pleaded not guilty Tuesday to causing a man's death with an injection of silicone he hoped would enlarge his penis — a procedure experts cautioned doesn't work.
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Ex-prof pleads guilty to killing Ala. colleagues
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:57PM September 11, 2012 CommentBIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A former biology professor accused of pulling a gun from her purse and opening fire at a faculty meeting pleaded guilty Tuesday to killing three colleagues and wounding three others at the University of Alabama in Huntsville in 2010.
