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NYPD officers rescue women from river and rooftop
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:31PM June 02, 2012 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — Officers plunged into the Hudson River Saturday to retrieve one woman and pulled another to safety from the edge of a high-rise roof where she was perched with a knife in a day of dramatic rescues for the New York Police Department.
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VP Joe Biden's daughter marries doctor in Delaware
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:26PM June 02, 2012 CommentWILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden's daughter Ashley married a Pennsylvania doctor at a ceremony in Delaware, the vice president's office announced late Saturday.
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Ariz. authorities find 5 bodies in burned vehicle
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:37PM June 02, 2012 CommentFive bodies burned beyond recognition have been found inside the shell of a charred sport utility vehicle in the Arizona desert, and Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu said Saturday the case is likely connected to drug cartel violence.
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Phoenix police say mom forgets baby on car roof
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:20PM June 02, 2012 CommentPHOENIX (AP) — Phoenix police have arrested a woman who allegedly drove off after forgetting that her 5-week-old baby was in a car seat on the roof of her vehicle.
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AP 'napalm girl' photo from Vietnam War turns 40
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:00PM June 02, 2012 CommentTRANG BANG, Vietnam (AP) — In the picture, the girl will always be 9 years old and wailing "Too hot! Too hot!" as she runs down the road away from her burning Vietnamese village.
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Lil Wayne says he feels 'unwanted' at Okla. Arena
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:47PM June 02, 2012 CommentLOS ANGELES (AP) — Lil Wayne said that after a recent NBA playoffs ticket dispute he felt unwelcome and "unwanted" at the Oklahoma City arena and isn't planning to return.
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Hundreds gather to remember Nebraska coaches
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:25PM June 02, 2012 CommentANSLEY, Neb. (AP) — A crash that killed two Nebraska high school basketball coaches and injured eight players as they returned from camp broke "our collective heart," a minister told hundreds gathered at a Saturday vigil.
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Alaskans mark 100th anniversary of big volcano
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:18PM June 02, 2012 CommentANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Even a century after one of the world's largest volcanic eruptions, a strong wind still whips up the ash that rained down on what became known as Alaska's Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes. Pumice chunks still dot the beaches of Kodiak Island across Shelikof Strait.
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Federal bill would give nation's hens bigger cages
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:57PM June 02, 2012 CommentFRESNO, Calif. (AP) — The animal welfare advocates who gave egg-laying hens more room to roam on California farms are trying to expand chicken coops across the nation with an unlikely ally — a group that previously had been their biggest opponent.
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Police: Indiana couple killed while kids listen
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:19PM June 02, 2012 CommentMISHAWAKA, Ind. (AP) — A convicted murderer freed from prison two years ago gunned down his brother during an argument outside his brother's northwest Indiana home early Saturday, then chased his sister-in-law inside and killed her while her terrified children listened, authorities said.
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Stay or go? Some towns are eyeing retreat from sea
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:58PM June 02, 2012 CommentLOS ANGELES (AP) — Years of ferocious storms have threatened to gnaw away the western tip of a popular beachfront park two hours drive north of Los Angeles. Instead of building a 500-foot-long wooden defense next to the pier to tame the tide, the latest thinking is to flee.
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Penn State trial to paint 2 portraits of Sandusky
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:58PM June 02, 2012 CommentBELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) — Before his arrest on child molestation charges seven months ago, Jerry Sandusky was widely considered a living Penn State sports legend and the founder of an exemplary organization that worked with at-risk children.
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Ohio runner with cerebral palsy becomes hit online
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:30PM June 02, 2012 CommentCOLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — When John Blaine realized 11-year-old Matt Woodrum was struggling through his 400-meter race at school in central Ohio, the physical education teacher felt compelled to walk over and check on the boy.
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Edwards' mistress Rielle Hunter publishing memoir
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:29PM June 02, 2012 CommentRALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — John Edwards' mistress Rielle Hunter is publishing a memoir about her relationship with the former presidential candidate and their daughter.
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Obama finds you can go home again _ for 1 night
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:25PM June 02, 2012 CommentCHICAGO (AP) — All President Barack Obama wanted to do was go home.
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Panetta open to military relations with Myanmar
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:07PM June 02, 2012 CommentSINGAPORE (AP) — The U.S. is open to improving military ties with Myanmar if the country continues to enact political and human rights reforms, Pentagon chief Leon Panetta told Asian leaders Saturday.
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Clinton urges cooperation in resource-rich Arctic
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:58AM June 02, 2012 CommentTROMSO, Norway (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday ventured north of the Arctic Circle and urged international cooperation in a region that could become a new battleground for natural resources.
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Panetta: No China threat from US military in Asia
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:07AM June 02, 2012 CommentSINGAPORE (AP) — From this island nation in the South China Sea, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta sent a message Saturday that America's new military focus on the Asia-Pacific is not intended to raise tensions in the region or threaten Beijing.
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Clinton says Mubarak's fate up to Egyptian people
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:27AM June 02, 2012 CommentTROMSO, Norway (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton isn't commenting directly on the life-in-prison sentence handed down to ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak (HOHS'-nee moo-BAH'-rahk), but says his fate is "up to the Egyptian people, their judicial system and their government."
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Risks of boomerangs a reality in world of cyberwar
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:39AM June 02, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is warning American businesses about an unusually potent computer virus that infected Iran's oil industry even as suspicions persist that the United States is responsible for secretly creating and unleashing cyberweapons against foreign countries.
