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Gunman in Texas shootout fired more than 65 rounds
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:07PM August 17, 2012 CommentHOUSTON (AP) — A gunman who was among three people killed in a shootout near Texas A&M University earlier this week fired more than 65 rounds and also took an officer's gun after fatally shooting him, police said Friday.
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Ex-teacher gets 5-year prison term for student sex
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:33PM August 17, 2012 CommentFORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A former North Texas high school teacher was convicted Friday and sentenced to five years in prison for having sex with five 18-year-old students at her home.
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Charges against Kansas abortion clinic dropped
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:04PM August 17, 2012 CommentTOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas prosecutor on Friday dropped all remaining criminal charges against a Kansas City-area Planned Parenthood clinic accused of performing illegal abortions, ending what was believed to be the first attempt in the U.S. to prosecute a facility affiliated with the group.
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Pastor seeks prayers as search for boy continues
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:40PM August 17, 2012 CommentYOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — Every year for a quarter century, the congregation of Calvary Chapel East Anaheim has traveled to the Sierra Nevada foothills for a spiritual family retreat.
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Former Border Patrol union head denies fraud
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:16PM August 17, 2012 CommentSAN DIEGO (AP) — The former, longtime national leader of the union representing Border Patrol agents on Friday called a federal indictment alleging that he siphoned hundreds of thousands of dollars in union funds "a wild goose chase."
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Moody's: More Calif. cities at risk of bankruptcy
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:12PM August 17, 2012 CommentSACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — One of the nation's top credit rating agencies said Friday that it expects more municipal bankruptcies and defaults in California, the nation's largest issuer of municipal bonds.
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Romney and Obama now fight for edge on Medicare
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:49PM August 17, 2012 CommentSOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. (AP) — The jobs-and-economy election suddenly seems all about Medicare — for now, at least.
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Police comb theaters after threat to Carmike chain
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:26PM August 17, 2012 CommentCOLUMBUS, Ga. (AP) — Movie theaters in several states were combed for explosives Friday after someone phoned in a bomb threat to the corporate headquarters of Carmike Cinemas, a spokesman for the chain said.
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Indiana melons linked to US salmonella outbreak
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:22PM August 17, 2012 CommentHealth officials in Indiana and Kentucky say they are investigating farms, distributors and retailers after an outbreak of salmonella that has killed two and sickened at least 141 people nationwide was linked to cantaloupe grown in southwestern Indiana.
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Emory U: False data sent to rankings groups
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:01PM August 17, 2012 CommentPrestigious Emory University intentionally misreported student data to rankings magazines for more than a decade, the Atlanta school disclosed Friday, adding its high-profile name to a growing list of institutions caught up in scandals over rankings pressure.
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'West Memphis Three' out of prison for a year
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:45PM August 17, 2012 CommentWEST MEMPHIS, Ark. (AP) — For nearly two decades, prison was the only home Jason Baldwin, Damien Echols and Jessie Misskelley Jr. knew.
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2012 conventions embrace social media openness
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:27PM August 17, 2012 CommentCHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Democrats and Republicans are using social media to turn their national conventions away from the smoke-filled rooms of yore and into meetings where anyone who wants to get involved is just a click away, no matter where they are.
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AP photographer recounts burning car rescue
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:24PM August 17, 2012 CommentHANCOCK COUNTY, Miss. (AP) — When a sport utility vehicle ran off a rural stretch of interstate and slammed into pine trees in Mississippi, nearly two dozen people rushed to help two sisters who were trapped inside the burning vehicle.
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Report accuses general of lavish travel, spending
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:40PM August 17, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — The four-star general who headed U.S. Africa Command used military vehicles to shuttle his wife on shopping trips and to a spa and billed the government for a refueling stop overnight in Bermuda, where the couple stayed in a $750 suite, a Defense Department investigation has found.
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Navy's oldest commissioned warship to sail again
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:01PM August 17, 2012 CommentBOSTON (AP) — The U.S. Navy's oldest commissioned warship will sail under its own power for just the second time in more than a century to commemorate the battle that won it the nickname "Old Ironsides."
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For Miss., an angst-filled Civil War anniversary
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:42PM August 17, 2012 CommentJACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Civil War can be an angst-filled task in Mississippi, with its long history of racial strife and a state flag that still bears the Confederate battle emblem.
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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.
