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Brennan says no Secret Service security breach
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:01AM April 29, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — The White House's top counterterrorism adviser says the Secret Service's prostitution scandal did not expose weak spots in the president's security.
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The nation's weather
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:58AM April 29, 2012 CommentThunderstorms will roll across the Plains on Sunday as weak areas of low pressure develop along a stationary front stretched from Colorado to the Carolinas. The greatest chance for rain and thunderstorms will be from central Oklahoma through western Illinois. This region will also see the greatest chance of severe thunderstorms, with damaging winds and frequent lightning expected in the region.
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Bo Jackson finishes 300-mile tornado relief ride
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:06AM April 29, 2012 CommentTUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Bo Jackson's 300-mile bike ride across Alabama ended Saturday in Tuscaloosa, with the Heisman Trophy winner having raised more than $413,000 so far to help victims of last spring's tornado outbreaks.
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Police blow Wash. mountain bunker, find man dead
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:57PM April 28, 2012 CommentNORTH BEND, Wash. (AP) — Peter Keller spent eight years carving his hole in the side of the mountain, camouflaging the rugged underground bunker with ferns and sticks and stocking it with a generator and ammunition boxes sealed in Ziploc bags. Suspected in the deaths of his wife, daughter and pets last weekend, he headed there prepared for the long haul with high-powered rifles, scope and body armor.
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Small but widely felt quake shakes Southern Calif
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:13PM April 28, 2012 CommentLOS ANGELES (AP) — Some Southern Californians were shaken out of bed Saturday morning by a small earthquake that rattled homes across the Inland Empire region and caused buildings to sway in downtown Los Angeles.
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Man booked in hammer deaths of Vegas mom, child
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:34PM April 28, 2012 CommentLAS VEGAS (AP) — Using a hammer as a weapon, a "complete stranger" with no significant criminal history allegedly chose a family at random and attacked them in their home, killing a woman and her daughter, in a brutal crime that left investigators both baffled and aghast.
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Scandal highlights lack of women in Secret Service
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:03PM April 28, 2012 Comment (2)WASHINGTON (AP) — Secret Service agents are often portrayed in popular culture as disciplined, unflappable, loyal — and male. A spiraling prostitution scandal that has highlighted the dearth of women in the agency that protects the president and dignitaries has many wondering: Would more females in the ranks prevent future dishonor?
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Fla. boy struck by SUV, killed at softball game
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:29PM April 28, 2012 CommentTITUSVILLE, Fla. (AP) — The wife of the police chief in a central Florida community accidentally ran over a family friend's 22-month-old son in a parking lot, authorities said.
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Blind lawyer's escape to overshadow US-China talks
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:18PM April 28, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — Less than a week before annual U.S.-Chinese diplomatic and economic talks, relations between the powers risked sharply deteriorating Saturday with an escaped Chinese activist reportedly under American protection and a U.S. fighter jet sale to Taiwan now being considered.
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1 year later, Ala residents recall deadly twisters
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:20PM April 28, 2012 CommentPeople across Alabama are remembering the horror of a deadly twister outbreak a year ago that left more than 250 people dead. Memorials have been held in the college town of Tuscaloosa and smaller communities still struggling to rebuild since April 27, 2011. Empty lots and debris still remain in many areas lain to waste after 62 tornadoes tore through the state.
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No more Droopy Drawers robbers; FBI agent retires
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:23PM April 28, 2012 CommentCOLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — FBI agent Harry Trombitas took bank robberies seriously, but not always the people who committed them.
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Vets navigate tough new terrain _ the job market
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:04PM April 28, 2012 CommentCHICAGO (AP) — Matthew Saldana proved himself in a world where stress, danger and life-and-death decisions were routine. He served one tour in Iraq and a second in Afghanistan. But the Army veteran is having a harder time back home navigating a calmer but uncertain terrain — the job market.
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High court's stance could spur immigration laws
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:52AM April 28, 2012 CommentEmboldened by signals that the U.S. Supreme Court may uphold parts of Arizona's immigration law, legislators and activists across the country say they are gearing up to push for similar get-tough measures in their states.
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Obama flashing executive power in election year
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:37AM April 28, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama, flashing his executive power in an election year, is promoting measures to safeguard veterans and members of the military against unscrupulous college recruiters.
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Chaperones among new Secret Service conduct rules
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:30AM April 28, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — Embarrassed by a prostitution scandal, the Secret Service will assign chaperones on some trips to enforce new rules of conduct that make clear that excessive drinking, entertaining foreigners in their hotel rooms and cavorting in disreputable establishments are no longer tolerated.
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Surge in child immigrants stresses support network
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:56AM April 28, 2012 CommentMcALLEN, Texas (AP) — An unprecedented surge of children caught trudging through South Texas scrublands or crossing at border ports of entry without their families has sent government and nonprofit agencies scrambling to expand their shelter, legal representation and reunification services. On any given day this year, the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement has been caring for more than 2,100 unaccompanied child immigrants.
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For Obama, bin Laden killing becomes campaign tool
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:30AM April 28, 2012 Comment (2)WASHINGTON (AP) — The killing of Osama bin Laden, first presented as a moment of national unity by President Barack Obama, has become something else: a political weapon.
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PROMISES, PROMISES: Romney pledges raise questions
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:29AM April 28, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is making campaign promises that could produce an economic miracle — or a more predictable list of broken vows.
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Panetta recalls nail-biting moments of raid
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:27AM April 28, 2012 CommentABOARD A U.S. MILITARY AIRCRAFT (AP) — The picture in Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's office captures the "mission accomplished" moment.
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7 homes, hog farm destroyed in Colorado tornadoes
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:25PM April 27, 2012 CommentEADS, Colo. (AP) — At least seven homes and a hog farm were destroyed early Friday after authorities said rare nighttime tornadoes ripped through sparsely populated counties on the southeastern Colorado plains.
