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Report: Tablets helping improve news consumption

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-17 07:47
NEW YORK (AP) -- Mobile technology appears to be increasing the public appetite for news but it's far from clear whether the news industry will profit from that, a study issued Monday concluded....
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Report: Tablets helping improve news consumption

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-17 07:47
NEW YORK (AP) -- Mobile technology appears to be increasing the public appetite for news but it's far from clear whether the news industry will profit from that, a study issued Monday concluded....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Report: Tablets helping improve news consumption

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-17 07:47
NEW YORK (AP) -- Mobile technology appears to be increasing the public appetite for news but it's far from clear whether the news industry will profit from that, a study issued Monday concluded....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Report: US makes modest gains in graduation rate

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-17 07:47
HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) -- The last straw for 17-year-old Alton Burke was a note left on his door. The high school dropout picked up the phone and re-enrolled at South Hagerstown High....
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Report: US makes modest gains in graduation rate

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-17 07:47
HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) -- The last straw for 17-year-old Alton Burke was a note left on his door. The high school dropout picked up the phone and re-enrolled at South Hagerstown High....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Colo. fire forces town's 300 residents to evacuate

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-17 07:47
WRAY, Colo. (AP) -- A large, wind-fueled grass fire on the plains of northeastern Colorado destroyed at least two homes, threatened multiple others and forced all 300 residents of a rural town to evacuate Sunday....
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Study of 'meth babies' finds behavior problems

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-17 07:47
CHICAGO (AP) -- The first study to look at methamphetamine's potential lasting effects on children whose mothers used it in pregnancy finds these kids at higher risk for behavior problems than other children....
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Study of 'meth babies' finds behavior problems

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-17 07:47
CHICAGO (AP) -- The first study to look at methamphetamine's potential lasting effects on children whose mothers used it in pregnancy finds these kids at higher risk for behavior problems than other children....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Twitter, Facebook don't sway public's news interest

Much of the often-agitated press appears obsessed with social media, tweeting and posting stories to attract measurable buzz, and possibly job security.

But the impact of Twitter and Facebook is not particularly significant in the competitive marketplace, according to Pew Research Center's annual "State of the Media Report" released Monday.

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Sportswriter Furman Bisher dies at 93

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-17 07:47
FAYETTEVILLE, Ga. (AP) -- Famed Georgia sportswriter Furman Bisher, who covered everything from major golf tournaments to the Triple Crown during a career that spanned six decades, died Sunday of a massive heart attack outside Atlanta. He was 93....
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Sportswriter Furman Bisher dies at 93

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-17 07:47
FAYETTEVILLE, Ga. (AP) -- Famed Georgia sportswriter Furman Bisher, who covered everything from major golf tournaments to the Triple Crown during a career that spanned six decades, died Sunday of a massive heart attack outside Atlanta. He was 93....
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Sportswriter Furman Bisher dies at 93

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-17 07:47
FAYETTEVILLE, Ga. (AP) -- Famed Georgia sportswriter Furman Bisher, who covered everything from major golf tournaments to the Triple Crown during a career that spanned six decades, died Sunday of a massive heart attack outside Atlanta. He was 93....
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Census documenting Great Depression to be released

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-17 07:47
NEW YORK (AP) -- It was a decade when tens of millions of people in the U.S. experienced mass unemployment and social upheaval as the nation clawed its way out of the Great Depression and rumblings of global war were heard from abroad....
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Romney wins Puerto Rico, race moves to Ill., La.

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-17 07:47
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- Mitt Romney scored an overwhelming win Sunday in Puerto Rico's Republican presidential primary, trouncing chief rival Rick Santorum on the Caribbean island even as the two rivals looked ahead to more competitive contests this week in Illinois and Louisiana....
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Lawyer for Afghan killings suspect to visit him

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-17 07:47
SEATTLE (AP) -- With formal charges looming against his client within days, the lawyer for an Army sergeant suspected in the horrific nighttime slaughter of 16 Afghan villagers flew to Kansas and was preparing for his first face-to-face meeting with the 10-year veteran....
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Lawyer for Afghan killings suspect to visit him

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-17 07:47
SEATTLE (AP) -- With formal charges looming against his client within days, the lawyer for an Army sergeant suspected in the horrific nighttime slaughter of 16 Afghan villagers flew to Kansas and was preparing for his first face-to-face meeting with the 10-year veteran....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Lawyer for Afghan killings suspect to visit him

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-17 07:47
SEATTLE (AP) -- With formal charges looming against his client within days, the lawyer for an Army sergeant suspected in the horrific nighttime slaughter of 16 Afghan villagers flew to Kansas and was preparing for his first face-to-face meeting with the 10-year veteran....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Buried amid rape kit backlog: Justice for victims

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-17 07:47
DETROIT (AP) -- For nearly two decades, Carol Bart's untested rape kit collected dust in a police evidence room. Her attacker, who kidnapped her from outside her Dallas apartment and repeatedly raped her at knifepoint, had spent time in prison by coincidence, but not for sexually assaulting Bart....
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NYC activists differ on Occupy's direction

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-17 07:47
NEW YORK (AP) -- A day after police broke up a rally at Manhattan's Zuccotti Park and arrested dozens, Occupy Wall Street protesters said Sunday that their movement for economic justice would pick up momentum with the spring....
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4 GOP-appointed justices control health law's fate

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-17 07:47
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Here's a thought that can't comfort President Barack Obama: The fate of his health care overhaul rests with four Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices....
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