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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The twin reactors at the San Onofre nuclear plant have been sidelined, more than 300 tubes that carry radioactive water will be scrapped because of excessive wear, and investigators are trying to figure out why tubing is rattling inside the lungs of the plant - its massive steam generators....

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- Students at the tiny Christian college where a gunman killed seven people and wounded three in a rampage this week are waiting for a police probe to advance enough to allow them to return to class....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. job market slowed in March as companies hit the brakes on hiring amid uncertainty about the economy's growth prospects. The unemployment rate dipped, but mostly because more Americans stopped looking for work....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. economy probably generated more than 200,000 jobs in March, capping the best four months of hiring since before the recession....

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) -- A Marine who criticized President Barack Obama on his Facebook page has committed misconduct and should be dismissed, a military board recommended late Thursday....

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- As Holocaust survivors languished in displacement camps around Europe at the close of World War II, the U.S. Army gave them some of their first tangible connections to their faith since before the war: passages from the Talmud....

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Sgt. 1st Class Shawn T. Hannon felt it was a privilege to serve his country and was proud to be a soldier, a job he did nearly 20 years while also working as a lawyer, his family said....

NEW YORK (AP) -- Former Tyco CEO L. Dennis Kozlowski on Thursday lost a bid to get out of the prison where he's serving time in one of the corporate world's most notorious fraud cases, with parole officials calling his role in the $100-million-plus scheme a "glaring violation" of shareholders' trust....

NEW YORK (AP) -- Former Tyco CEO L. Dennis Kozlowski on Thursday lost a bid to get out of the prison where he's serving time in one of the corporate world's most notorious fraud cases, with parole officials calling his role in the $100-million-plus scheme a "glaring violation" of shareholders' trust....

OVER THE GULF OF ALASKA (AP) -- The long, lonely voyage of the Japanese ghost ship is over....

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) -- A co-worker of Steve Powell says the father-in-law of Susan Powell planned to travel to Utah for a camping trip shortly before she disappeared in 2009, an attorney said Thursday....

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) -- A co-worker of Steve Powell says the father-in-law of Susan Powell planned to travel to Utah for a camping trip shortly before she disappeared in 2009, an attorney said Thursday....

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) -- It was one of the most brazen moves in the chess world since the Najdorf Sicilian Defense, perhaps even the Blackmar-Diemer Gambit....

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) -- It was one of the most brazen moves in the chess world since the Najdorf Sicilian Defense, perhaps even the Blackmar-Diemer Gambit....

OVER THE GULF OF ALASKA (AP) -- The long, lonely voyage of the Japanese ghost ship is over....

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) -- A Marine facing dismissal from the military for his Facebook comments went as far as superimposing images of President Barack Obama's face on a poster for the movie "Jackass," a prosecutor said Thursday....

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Three U.S. soldiers killed in a suicide attack this week in Afghanistan were from Ohio, as were several others seriously wounded in the bombing, the Ohio National Guard said Thursday....

The man who purchased two semi-automatic assault rifles found at the scene of the fatal December 2010 shooting of a U.S. Border Patrol agent just north of the Arizona-Mexico border pleaded guilty Thursday to two felony charges in the federal government's botched Fast and Furious gun-smuggling investigation.

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HELENA, MONT. | Best-selling "Three Cups of Tea" author Greg Mortenson mismanaged the nonprofit organization he co-founded to build schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan and spent charity money on personal items, family vacations and millions on charter flights, according to an investigative report released Thursday.

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DETROIT — A federal judge in Michigan on Thursday cleared the way for Koran-burning pastor Terry Jones to lead a protest in front of the nation's largest mosque this weekend, saying efforts by officials in Dearborn, Mich., to essentially force organizers to guarantee the rally would be peaceful were unconstitutional.

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