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50 advance to semifinals of National Spelling Bee
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:36PM May 30, 2012 CommentOXON HILL, Md. (AP) — Lena Greenberg was in constant motion as she stood waiting for her turn at the microphone at the National Spelling Bee — arms waving, feet dancing, head bobbing.
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Alaska residents warned about aggressive cow moose
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:55PM May 30, 2012 CommentANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska wildlife biologists are warning about the dangers of moose calving season after several people were injured in the past week by protective cows, including a 6-year-old girl who was stomped by one in her backyard until her father scared it off with a log and a baseball bat.
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Ind. man shoots 4, 1 fatally, before shooting self
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:51PM May 30, 2012 CommentINDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A gunman opened fire at an Indianapolis apartment complex Wednesday, fatally shooting a woman and critically wounding three other people before turning the gun on himself as officers confronted him, police said.
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In video, man says he was 'going down' for assault
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:11PM May 30, 2012 CommentLOS ANGELES (AP) — One of two men charged in a devastating assault on a San Francisco Giants fan outside Dodger Stadium told his own mother that he was involved and expected to "go down" for the attack.
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Hospital: Suspect dead after 5 shot in Seattle
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:01PM May 30, 2012 CommentSEATTLE (AP) — A gunman killed five people in Seattle on Wednesday — four at a cafe and another in a carjacking — before he apparently shot himself as officers closed in following a citywide manhunt, authorities said.
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Face-chewing victim face surgery, long recovery
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:44PM May 30, 2012 CommentMIAMI (AP) — A homeless man whose face was mostly chewed off in a bizarre, vicious attack faces a bigger threat from infection than from the injuries themselves, according to experts on facial reconstruction. He will require months of treatment to rebuild his features and be permanently disfigured.
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Gov't expanding E. coli tests in meat
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:17PM May 30, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — The government is expanding E. coli testing in some raw meat, a move expected to prevent more people from contracting the bacteria that can cause severe illness or death.
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Feds ask for documents from McCourts
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:10PM May 30, 2012 CommentLOS ANGELES (AP) — Federal authorities have requested documents from former Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank McCourt and his ex-wife as part of a criminal investigation into their dealings with the team and associated businesses.
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Sex offenders fight for right to use Facebook
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:06PM May 30, 2012 CommentINDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Registered sex offenders who have been banned from social networking websites are fighting back in the nation's courts, successfully challenging many of the restrictions as infringements on free speech and their right to participate in common online discussions.
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White House issues veto threat on veterans bill
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:50PM May 30, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is warning that President Barack Obama will veto a widely popular House spending bill for veterans' programs and construction projects at military bases.
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Judge says barriers should be used at SeaWorld
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:43PM May 30, 2012 CommentORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Physical barriers between trainers and killer whales are a viable way to prevent hazards to workers at SeaWorld, an administrative law judge ruled in a decision that also reduced a federal fine against the theme park in a trainer's death.
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Parolee sneaks on San Diego plane before arrest
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:27PM May 30, 2012 CommentSAN DIEGO (AP) — Officials say police arrested a parolee who broke through an emergency door opening to the tarmac at the San Diego airport and boarded a commuter jet bound for Los Angeles.
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Odd politics, presidential tradition: Bush is back
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:23PM May 30, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — This is a little awkward.
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Forest wildfire becomes largest in NM history
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:16PM May 30, 2012 CommentALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A massive wildfire that has burned more than 265 square miles in the Gila National Forest has become the largest fire in New Mexico history, fire officials confirmed Wednesday.
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Black pilots sue United over bias claims
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:07PM May 30, 2012 CommentSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Nearly two dozen black pilots for United Airlines filed a federal discrimination lawsuit claiming few minority workers are promoted to upper management at the world's largest air carrier.
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Hundreds of salmonella cases tied to chicks
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:00PM May 30, 2012 CommentATLANTA (AP) — Those cute mail-order chicks that wind up in children's Easter baskets and backyard farms have been linked to more than 300 cases of salmonella in the U.S. — mostly in youngsters — since 2004.
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US again imposes clean-energy tariffs on China
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:33PM May 30, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration moved Wednesday to impose stiff new tariffs on wind-energy towers made in China, the latest strike in an escalating trade war over clean energy.
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Can you really teach a kid to become bullyproof?
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:22PM May 30, 2012 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — Teaching kids to become "bullyproof" is all the rage. Books, videos and websites promise to show parents how to protect their kids from being bullied; school districts are buying curricula with names like "Bully-Proofing Your School," a well-regarded program used in thousands of classrooms. Even martial arts programs are getting into the act: "Bullyproofing the world, one child at a time," is the motto for a jujitsu program called Gracie Bullyproof.
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FACT CHECK: Oil stats belie tough enforcement talk
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:20PM May 30, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — In the three years since President Barack Obama took office, Republicans have made the Environmental Protection Agency a lightning rod for complaints that his administration has been too tough on oil and gas producers.
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Cargo flight clips passenger plane at O'Hare
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:12PM May 30, 2012 CommentCHICAGO (AP) — Officials say no one was hurt when the wing of a cargo plane taxiing at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport clipped the rudder of an American Eagle flight arriving from Missouri.
