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Call for Spanish language political spending
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:26PM August 17, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — Just a month after Forbes Magazine recognized the Hispanic television market as "the next media jackpot," some are complaining that Hispanic media aren't getting a fair share of attention from the political realm.
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Forest Service now tries to tamp out every flame
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:17PM August 17, 2012 CommentALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — If lightning strikes in the New Mexico wilderness and starts a fire, the blaze would normally be little more than a blip on the radar of land managers who have earned a reputation for letting flames burn to keep forested lands from growing into a tangled mess.
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Police: Michigan mother, 2 kids stabbed with knife
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:08PM August 17, 2012 CommentDETROIT (AP) — A woman and two children found dead in a suburban Detroit home when officers went to notify her of her husband's death in a fatal crash were stabbed with a butcher knife, police said Friday.
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Butler sentenced to 20 years in Conn. extortion
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:06PM August 17, 2012 CommentNEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — A former butler insisted on his innocence and said he's scared to go to jail as he was sentenced Friday to 20 years in prison for trying to extort millions of dollars from philanthropist Anne H. Bass, who was injected with what masked intruders claimed was a deadly virus during a night of terror in 2007.
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Jan. trial for ex-PSU officials Curley, Schultz
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:19PM August 17, 2012 CommentHARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The trial is scheduled to begin early next year for two former Penn State officials accused of lying to a grand jury and burying an allegation of a child's sexual abuse in the Jerry Sandusky scandal.
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Obama campaign makes tax offer to Romney team
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:57PM August 17, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's campaign offered Mitt Romney a deal: If he releases a total of five years of tax returns, Obama's team won't criticize him for not releasing any more. Romney's campaign quickly rejected the offer.
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Wisconsin center of Republican wave
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:11PM August 17, 2012 CommentMADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Republicans seem to have it all.
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Douglas, Wieber enjoy celebrity sparkle after gold
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:06PM August 17, 2012 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — They've been on a whirlwind tour since the Olympics — from "Late Night With David Letterman" to the Empire State Building and the New York Stock Exchange — but gold-medal gymnasts Gabby Douglas and Jordyn Wieber have one more stop to make before they can truly take a breath: the White House.
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Mom seeks heart transplant for autistic son
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:01AM August 17, 2012 CommentPHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Pennsylvania woman whose autistic adult son was not recommended for a heart transplant said she wants to bring more attention to the decision-making process so that those with ailments or disabilities are not passed over without careful consideration.
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Progressive insurance on defense after court case
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:08AM August 17, 2012 CommentMcLEAN, Va. (AP) — The Progressive Corp. insurance group is defending itself against an onslaught of negative publicity after it tried to avoid paying $75,000 to the family of a client killed in a car crash and sought to blame the wreck on her.
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Boy dies, brother missing in river in Yosemite
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:30AM August 17, 2012 CommentFRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Authorities were searching a stretch of the Merced River for a 6-year-old boy after his older brother died when a current swept them away during a family outing in Yosemite National Park.
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Yosemite tourist dies after contracting hantavirus
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:27AM August 17, 2012 CommentFRESNO, Calif. (AP) — A popular lodging area in Yosemite National Park could be linked to a rare rodent-borne disease that has killed a California tourist who stayed there this summer, officials said.
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Ryan says he did seek economic stimulus money
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:04AM August 17, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan on Thursday reversed course and acknowledged lobbying the government for millions of dollars in economic stimulus money after twice denying he had done so.
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Next wave in rescues: Remote-control 'lifeguards'
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:01AM August 17, 2012 CommentWESTERLY, R.I. (AP) — Think of a lifeguard and you might conjure up images of sunburned teenagers working a summer job. A new and relatively inexpensive lifesaving device could change that.
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1 man dead from rodent disease at Yosemite
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:48PM August 16, 2012 CommentFRESNO, Calif. (AP) — A man died and a woman became seriously ill after contracting a rare rodent-borne disease that might have been linked to their stay at a popular lodging area in Yosemite National Park, officials said Thursday.
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1 boy dead, another missing in Yosemite river
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:26PM August 16, 2012 CommentFRESNO, Calif. (AP) — A 10-year-old boy died and his 6-year-old brother was missing after they were swept away along a popular but treacherous boulder-strewn stretch of the Merced River, Yosemite National Park officials said Thursday.
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To fight West Nile, Dallas launches aerial defense
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:22PM August 16, 2012 CommentDALLAS (AP) — The last time Dallas used aerial spraying to curb the mosquito population, Texas' Lyndon Johnson was in the White House, Mission Control in Houston was launching Gemini missions and encephalitis was blamed for more than a dozen deaths.
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Conservative, gay rights groups spar over shooting
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:11PM August 16, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — As authorities revealed details about the Family Research Council shooting, the head of the influential conservative organization blamed the attack on "reckless rhetoric," but then delivered his own politically-charged remark, saying critics gave the accused gunman "a license to shoot an unarmed man."
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AP IMPACT: CO2 emissions in US drop to 20-year low
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:39PM August 16, 2012 CommentPITTSBURGH (AP) — In a surprising turnaround, the amount of carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere in the U.S. has fallen dramatically to its lowest level in 20 years, and government officials say the biggest reason is that cheap and plentiful natural gas has led many power plant operators to switch from dirtier-burning coal.
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Patrick Kennedy: Rep. Jackson in 'deep' depression
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:23PM August 16, 2012 CommentCHICAGO (AP) — U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. is in a "deep" depression and has "a lot of work" ahead of him on the road to recovery, former Rhode Island U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy said Thursday after visiting the hospitalized Chicago Democrat.
