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Titanic sinking being remembered near and far

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-24 18:01
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- Two Titanic survivors who later became tennis pros are being honored at Rhode Island's International Tennis Hall of Fame and Museum. Nearby on Cape Cod, a wreath will be laid for a radio operator who relayed Morse code messages as the ill-fated ship went down. In Denver, a musical piece composed for famed passenger Molly Brown is getting its premiere....
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Vt. governor chased by 4 bears in backyard

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — A late-night encounter with four bears trying to snack from backyard birdfeeders gave Vermont's governor a lesson in what not to do in bear country.

One of the bears chased Peter Shumlin and nearly caught the governor while he was trying to shoo the animals away, ...

Vegas priest arrives at Texas federal prison

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-24 18:01
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- A Roman Catholic priest from Las Vegas surrendered Friday at a federal prison in Texas to serve his sentence for siphoning $650,000 from his northwest Las Vegas parish to support a video poker and casino gambling habit....
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Vegas priest arrives at Texas federal prison

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-24 18:01
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- A Roman Catholic priest from Nevada has checked into federal prison in Texas to serve a sentence for embezzling $650,000 from his Las Vegas parish to support a gambling habit....
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Judge: Pa. boy killed dad's pregnant fiancee at 11

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-24 18:01
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- A boy who was 11 when he was accused of killing his father's pregnant fiancée and her unborn son was found guilty Friday of their 2009 shotgun slayings....
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Romney to woo key conservative group at NRA event

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-24 18:01
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney will tell National Rifle Association members that President Barack Obama is not protecting gun owners' rights, even though the administration has said little about firearms and has deeply disappointed gun-control advocates....
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Cops prepare to enter home where suspect holed up

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-24 18:01
MODESTO, Calif. (AP) -- Authorities prepared Friday to enter a fire-gutted, California apartment where they expected to find a suspect in the shooting deaths of a deputy and a civilian after a daylong standoff....
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Ohio man, slain wife had filed for bankruptcy

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-24 18:01
BROOKLYN, Ohio (AP) -- Records show that an Ohio couple who died after the husband killed his wife and 10-year-old daughter and then was fatally shot by police had just recently emerged from bankruptcy....
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Judge denies request to block Marine's dismissal

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-24 18:01
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- A federal judge has denied a request to block discharge proceedings of a Camp Pendleton Marine who faces being kicked out of the military and loss of benefits for criticizing President Barack Obama on Facebook....
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GSA aware of spending scandal last July

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-24 18:01
WASHINGTON (AP) -- An internal government memo released Friday shows officials of the General Services Administration were aware of a spending problem months before the scandal burst into public view this month....
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FBI seeks shooter in Alaska Coast Guard deaths

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-24 18:01
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- An FBI spokesman says they're still looking for someone who shot and killed two Coast Guard members on an island off Alaska's mainland....
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UCSD agrees to overhaul harassment policies

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-24 18:01
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- The University of California, San Diego, has agreed to overhaul practices for handling complaints of racial harassment after a series of campus incidents that targeted blacks two years ago....
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Suspect in NH police chief killing found dead

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-24 18:01
GREENLAND, N.H. (AP) -- A man suspected of killing a New Hampshire police chief just days from retirement and wounding four other officers was found dead along with a female acquaintance early Friday, ending an overnight standoff that plunged a small town into fear and grief....
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Obama tax return shows 2011 earnings of $789,674

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-24 18:01
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama and his family paid more than $160,000 in federal taxes last year on earnings of $789,674, the White House said Friday....
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Woman rescued by NJ mayor in serious condition

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-24 18:01
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- Hospital officials say the woman rescued from a burning home in Newark, N.J., by the city's mayor has been admitted to intensive care in serious condition....
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Ohio man kills wife, daughter at Cracker Barrel

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-24 18:01
BROOKLYN, Ohio (AP) -- A northeast Ohio man shot and killed his young daughter on her birthday and his wife, who had just told him she was leaving him, inside a crowded Cracker Barrel restaurant before being killed by police....
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Fire controlled at CA building where suspect fled

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-24 18:01
MODESTO, Calif. (AP) -- Investigators on Friday morning were waiting to get the all clear from fire officials before entering a Modesto apartment that was gutted by fire to check on the status of a suspect in the shooting deaths of a deputy and a civilian, police said....
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Affidavit: Zimmerman did not use racial slur

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-24 18:01
When a recording was released of a 911 call George Zimmerman made to police shortly before fatally shooting Trayvon Martin, some who heard it zeroed in on three words to suggest he had uttered a racial slur....
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Newark mayor rescues neighbor from burning house

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — The mayor of New Jersey's largest city said Friday he feared for his life as he helped rescue a neighbor from a fire before firefighters had arrived.

Newark Mayor Cory Booker, speaking on "CBS This Morning," described how he returned home Thursday night and saw his ...

Attorney: Zimmerman bail hearing to be held next week

SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — Trayvon Martin's supporters fought for weeks to win an arrest after the 17-year-old was fatally shot by a neighborhood watch volunteer in Florida. Now George Zimmerman's attorney has begun what could be a lengthy legal battle to free his client from the second-degree murder charge filed ...

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