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Police: Woman killed in Ark. workplace shooting
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:24PM July 23, 2012 CommentLITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A woman is accused of fatally shooting a co-worker Monday at an Arkansas plant after the two apparently had an earlier altercation, authorities said.
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Fatal Calif police shooting stirs distrust, unrest
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:25PM July 23, 2012 CommentANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — The mayor of Anaheim is calling on state and federal agencies to help the city investigate the officer-involved shooting death of an unarmed man in a neighborhood a few miles from Disneyland.
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1st US spacewoman, Sally Ride, pushed frontiers
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:17PM July 23, 2012 CommentCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Sally Ride loved everything about space. What she didn't like was being the first American woman to experience it.
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Contempt motion dropped against Ky. teenager
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:13PM July 23, 2012 CommentLOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky teenager frustrated by light punishment for two boys who pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting her was spared Monday from having to face a contempt charge for naming them on Twitter in violation of a court order.
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Detroit-area man held in death, dismemberment case
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:41PM July 23, 2012 CommentALLEN PARK, Mich. (AP) — Investigators found "copious amounts" of blood and other clues linking a man to the fatal shooting and dismemberment of a Detroit-area couple who had allowed him to move in a few weeks ago, police said Monday.
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Colo. university mum on theater shooting suspect
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:51PM July 23, 2012 CommentAURORA, Colo. (AP) — University of Colorado officials refused to release any significant details Monday on their yearlong association with James Holmes, the former neuroscience graduate student accused of killing 12 people at a midnight movie in Aurora.
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For big-budget Penn St, fine not as big as seems
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:40PM July 23, 2012 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — The $60 million fine levied on Penn State by the NCAA doesn't look so big next to the scale of the athletic department's finances.
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Hospitals release 2 theater shooting survivors
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:33PM July 23, 2012 CommentDENVER (AP) — Colorado hospital officials say two more survivors of the mass shooting in an Aurora theater have been released and another is improving.
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Colo. suspect's mom learned of shooting from media
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:29PM July 23, 2012 CommentSAN DIEGO (AP) — The mother of James Holmes had no idea her son was believed to be the gunman who killed a dozen people in a Colorado theater until she was contacted hours after the tragedy at her San Diego home by a reporter, the family's lawyer said Monday.
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Colo. shooting suspect used Internet for arsenal
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:27PM July 23, 2012 CommentDENVER (AP) — In a world where Amazon can track your next book purchase and you must show ID to buy some allergy medicine, James Holmes spent months stockpiling thousands of bullets and head-to-toe ballistic gear without raising any red flags with authorities.
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Report: Federal air safety program falling short
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:16PM July 23, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — A safety program that encourages air traffic controllers to voluntarily disclose their mistakes in exchange for amnesty from punishment needs significant improvement before it can work effectively, according to a report released Monday.
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Witnesses: US general opposed hospital abuse probe
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:15PM July 23, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — Two retired U.S. military officers say the U.S. general who headed the NATO training mission in Afghanistan tried to stop an investigation into corruption and "Auschwitz-like conditions" at the country's main military hospital.
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Feinstein suggests some in White House leaked info
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:09PM July 23, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — The Democratic leader of the Senate Intelligence Committee said Monday that the White House appears to be responsible for some leaks of classified information.
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Ex-Minn. Senate aide sues over firing after affair
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:07PM July 23, 2012 CommentST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A former Minnesota Senate aide who was fired after having an affair with the chamber's top Republican leader filed a lawsuit Monday saying he was treated unfairly and discriminated against because female employees involved in similar relationships didn't lose their jobs.
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Sally Ride, First U.S. Woman in Space, Dies at 61
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:45PM July 23, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — Sally Ride, the first American woman to fly in space, has died. She was 61.
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How can we prevent mass killings like Aurora?
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:44PM July 23, 2012 CommentAURORA, Colo. (AP) — On the morning of the latest mass shooting, in a place that has become synonymous with tragedy, Tom Mauser's phone started ringing at 5 a.m. When he turned on the news his first thought was "Oh God," followed by an immediate: "Not again."
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NASA: Sally Ride, America's first female astronaut, has died
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:33PM July 23, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — NASA: Sally Ride, America's first female astronaut, has died
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Vilsack: House must pass drought help in farm bill
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:32PM July 23, 2012 CommentDES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack pushed Monday for Congress to act on a farm bill that would reinstate expired disaster assistance programs for farmers experiencing the worst drought in nearly seven decades.
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Ex-PSU exec: I was abused, wouldn't turn blind eye
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:31PM July 23, 2012 CommentPHILADELPHIA (AP) — Graham Spanier says he wouldn't have ignored child sexual-abuse complaints as Penn State's president because he was beaten repeatedly as a child.
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Fighting AIDS: US donates an extra $150 million
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:29PM July 23, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — Science now has the tools to slash the spread of HIV even without a vaccine — and the U.S. is donating an extra $150 million to help poor countries put them in place, the Obama administration told the world's largest AIDS conference Monday.
