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Court: Suspect's wife in Tenn. abduction-slayings charged with kidnapping after admitting role
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:46PM May 08, 2012 CommentGUNTOWN, Miss. (AP) — Court: Suspect's wife in Tenn. abduction-slayings charged with kidnapping after admitting role.
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Lawmakers question VA's plans to hire more staff
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:27PM May 08, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — Members of Congress expressed doubts Tuesday on plans by the Department of Veterans Affairs' to hire 1,900 additional workers to improve access to mental health care.
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Pentagon sending trainers back into Yemen
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:23PM May 08, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon said Tuesday it is sending military trainers back to Yemen for "routine" counterterrorism cooperation with Yemeni security forces amid an intensified battle against an offshoot of the al-Qaida terror network.
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Stars dress for Wintour-hosted, Prada-themed gala
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:31AM May 08, 2012 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — It's known as one of the most glamorous red carpets of the year, with movie stars, models and even a few star quarterbacks putting on their most fashion-forward outfits for the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute gala.
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US, India call for Pakistani terror crackdown
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:18AM May 08, 2012 CommentNEW DELHI (AP) — The United States and India on Tuesday called for Pakistan to do more to stop terrorism and pledged to keep up pressure on Iran over its nuclear program.
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Illinois Ponzi scheme fugitives caught in Arizona
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:31AM May 08, 2012 CommentTONOPAH, Ariz. (AP) — Nelson and Janet Hallahan were known around working-class Peoria, Ill., for their wealth, and flashed it. That, residents said, may have helped make their get-rich-quick scheme all the more believable.
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Painted ads resurface in NYC as urban 'modern art'
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:25AM May 08, 2012 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — New York is sprinkled with barely visible old ads painted on the sides of buildings — remnants of lost eras of urban life. Now, they're making a comeback as a nostalgic art form.
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911 call in Arizona suburb: 'He's got a gun. No!''
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:14AM May 08, 2012 CommentPHOENIX (AP) — A pair of 911 calls reveal the horror just before — and after — a former neo-Nazi allegedly fatally shot four people before turning a gun on himself in a Phoenix suburb.
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New index ranks Vermont tops in locally grown food
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:08AM May 08, 2012 CommentMONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — A committed "locavore," Robin McDermott once struggled to stock her kitchen with food grown within 100 miles of her Vermont home. She once drove 70 miles to buy beans and ordered a bulk shipment of oats from the neighboring Canadian province of Quebec.
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Clinton: Pakistan needs to do more to fight terror
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:29AM May 08, 2012 CommentNEW DELHI (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is calling on Pakistan to do more to fight terror originating from within its borders.
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Worker jumps into vat of acid to save colleague
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:06AM May 08, 2012 CommentCLIFTON, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey roofer jumped into a vat of nitric acid solution to save a co-worker who had fallen 40 feet into the tank, fire officials said.
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Texas gun-trafficking suspect sentenced
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:25PM May 07, 2012 CommentDALLAS (AP) — A judge has given a prison sentence to a fourth Texas man federal officials say was linked to a gun used in a U.S. agent's death in Mexico.
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US, China to cooperate more on cyber threat
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:39PM May 07, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — Asserting that cyberattacks against the U.S. don't come only from China, the U.S. and Chinese defense ministers said they agreed Monday to work together on cyber issues to avoid miscalculations that could lead to future crises.
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AG changes Sandusky shower allegation date to '01
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:50PM May 07, 2012 CommentHARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania prosecutors said Monday they now believe the alleged locker-room shower assault of a boy by Jerry Sandusky that ultimately led to football coach Joe Paterno's firing took place a year earlier than they first claimed, prompting attorneys for two Penn State administrators call for dismissal of one of the charges.
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Gilbert police release 911 calls in fatal shooting
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:24PM May 07, 2012 CommentPHOENIX (AP) — Police on Monday released some of the 911 calls in the case of a former neo-Nazi who allegedly fatally shot four people before turning a gun on himself in a Phoenix suburb.
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BPI closing 3 plants, blaming 'pink slime' uproar
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:54PM May 07, 2012 CommentLINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Beef Products Inc. will close processing plants in three states this month because of the controversy surrounding its meat product that critics have dubbed "pink slime," a company official said Monday.
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CIA thwarts 'undetectable' al-Qaida bomb plot
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:28PM May 07, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — The CIA thwarted an ambitious plot by al-Qaida's affiliate in Yemen to destroy a U.S.-bound airliner using a bomb with a sophisticated new design around the one-year anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden, U.S. officials said Monday.
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Illinois Ponzi scheme fugitives caught in Arizona
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:30PM May 07, 2012 CommentTONOPAH, Ariz. (AP) — Nelson and Janet Hallahan were known around working-class Peoria, Ill., for their wealth, and flashed it. That, residents said, may have helped make their get-rich-quick scheme all the more believable.
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Moderate NC weighs constitutional gay marriage ban
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:19PM May 07, 2012 CommentRALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina has long prided itself on its moderate politics dating to the civil rights era, as well as its place as a New South leader and a hub for high-tech, banking and higher education.
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NRC chair: No timetable for Cal nuke plant restart
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:16PM May 07, 2012 CommentLOS ANGELES (AP) — The chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Monday there is no timetable for restarting the sidelined San Onofre nuclear plant on the Southern California coast, where investigators are trying to determine the cause of unusual wear on hundreds of tubes that carry radioactive water.
