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FBI: Man in Ireland charged with Pitt bomb threats
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:57PM August 15, 2012 CommentPITTSBURGH (AP) — A founding member of a Scottish terror group was indicted Wednesday on charges he emailed bomb threats that disrupted campus life and forced the evacuation of more than 100 buildings on the University of Pittsburgh campus earlier this year.
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Drug charges dropped because of too much evidence
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:52PM August 15, 2012 CommentIOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A fugitive doctor charged in the nation's largest prosecution of Internet pharmacies is getting off in part because there's just too much evidence: more than 400,000 documents and two terabytes of electronic data that federal authorities say is expensive to maintain.
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Romney seeks to undercut Obama's likability lead
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:41PM August 15, 2012 CommentCHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Mitt Romney is portraying the outwardly calm President Barack Obama as a man seething with animosity and power lust as the Republicans seek to undermine one of the Democrat's greatest campaign strengths — his personal likability.
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50 Shades of Grey marketing phenom goes mainstream
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:23PM August 15, 2012 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — You've bought rope for that special someone, picked up a few sex toys and read those "Fifty Shades of Grey" books a time or three. You know who you are.
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APNewsBreak: General investigated over spending
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:57PM August 15, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — A four-star Army general who was the first head of the new U.S. Africa Command is under investigation and facing possible demotion for allegedly spending hundreds of thousands of dollars improperly on lavish travel, hotels and other items, The Associated Press has learned.
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NYer accused of faking own death pleads not guilty
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:52PM August 15, 2012 CommentBABYLON, N.Y. (AP) — The attorney for an unemployed New York man suspected of faking his own drowning denied Wednesday that his plan included a plot to collect on a life insurance policy.
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Olympian Ryan Lochte gets '90210' cameo this fall
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:47PM August 15, 2012 CommentLOS ANGELES (AP) — Olympic champion Ryan Lochte is testing the TV waters outside a pool.
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Gunfire audible in Sikh temple shooting 911 tapes
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:45PM August 15, 2012 CommentMILWAUKEE (AP) — The woman's voice is hushed, but even in her whisper her terror is evident. In a barely audible voice she gives the 911 dispatcher the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin's address and pleads, "Hurry up, please."
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EPA to approve grain sorghum for cleaner ethanol
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:27PM August 15, 2012 CommentBISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The federal government is on the verge of approving a grain mainly used as livestock feed to make a cleaner version of ethanol, a decision officials say could give farmers a new moneymaking opportunity, boost the biofuels industry and help the environment.
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Wildfire arsonist guilty of 5 heart attack deaths
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:10PM August 15, 2012 CommentSAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — A jury on Wednesday found a California man guilty of murdering five people who had heart attacks after he deliberately started a blaze that ballooned into a massive wildfire.
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Judge Won't Halt Pa. Voter Identification Law
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:05PM August 15, 2012 CommentHARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A tough new voter identification law championed by Republicans can take effect in Pennsylvania for November's presidential election, a judge ruled Wednesday, despite a torrent of criticism that it will suppress votes among President Barack Obama's supporters and make it harder for the elderly, disabled, poor and young adults to vote.
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Romney-Ryan light on foreign policy credentials
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:49PM August 15, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — For the first time in decades, the Republican presidential ticket has little substantial foreign policy or military experience, a marked shift for a party that has long sought to project strength on those issues.
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New ad campaign portrays caregivers' call for help
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:30PM August 15, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — A woman grips her car's steering wheel and silently lets out a scream as her frail father, on oxygen, coughs beside her and her kids play around in the back seat.
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Star births seen on cosmic scale in distant galaxy
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:11PM August 15, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists have found a cosmic supermom. It's a galaxy that gives births to more stars in a day than ours does in a year.
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Unmanned U.S. Military Hypersonic Craft Failed
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:49PM August 15, 2012 CommentLOS ANGELES (AP) — An unmanned experimental aircraft failed during an attempt to fly at six times the speed of sound in the latest setback for hypersonic flight.
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US economic recovery is weakest since World War II
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:43PM August 15, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — The recession that ended three years ago this summer has been followed by the feeblest economic recovery since the Great Depression.
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Ohioan wanted in NC murder arrested after manhunt
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:19PM August 15, 2012 CommentTOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Federal agents arrested an Ohio man at a motel Wednesday morning in the killing of his on-and-off girlfriend during a vacation to North Carolina's Outer Banks earlier this summer, ending a monthlong nationwide manhunt.
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GOP convention shines spotlight on Fla.
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:04PM August 15, 2012 CommentTAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Tampa is a hot property for the Republicans this year, and that doesn't just mean the 90-degree temperatures in August that will begin to sauté national convention delegates every time they step outdoors.
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Ark. man pleads guilty in teenage girl's death
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:02PM August 15, 2012 CommentFORT SMITH, Ark. (AP) — A convicted rapist was sentenced to 60 years in prison Wednesday after admitting he killed a 16-year-old girl he met online whose body was found stuffed into a blue plastic barrel in western Arkansas.
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Security guard shot in arm in downtown DC
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:05PM August 15, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — A security guard for a conservative Christian lobbying group has been shot in the arm.
