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Many willing to cut Afghan shooting suspect slack

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-17 10:31
He is accused of the kind of crime that makes people shiver, the killing of families in their own homes under cover of night, the butchery of defenseless children. Under normal circumstances, Americans would dismiss such an act as worthy of only one response: swift and merciless punishment....
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New wrinkle in pot debate: stoned driving

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-17 10:31
DENVER (AP) -- Angeline Chilton says she can't drive unless she smokes pot. The suburban Denver woman says she'd never get behind the wheel right after smoking, but she does use medical marijuana twice a day to ease tremors caused by multiple sclerosis that previously left her homebound....
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Alternate juror disagrees with Rutgers verdict

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-17 10:31
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) -- An alternate juror in the trial of a former Rutgers University student convicted in a webcam spying episode that ended in his gay roommate's suicide said he disagrees with the verdict....
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NYC activists differ on Occupy's direction

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-17 10:31
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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Historic black church faces foreclosure from minority-owned bank

In a dispute that some are calling a modern-day updating of the biblical Parable of the Ungrateful Servant, a minority-owned bank that benefited from federal bailout funds is threatening to foreclose on one of the nation’s oldest black churches.

The 194-year-old Charles Street African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in Boston's ...

Census documenting Great Depression to be released

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-17 10:31
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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Buried amid rape kit backlog: Justice for victims

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-17 10:31
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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WILLIAMS: The betrayal of Congressman West

ANALYSIS/OPINION:

Can someone please explain to me why the Republican Party in Florida allowed Rep. Allen B. West to be gerrymandered out of his congressional district?

Mr. West is the most prominent and best-spoken elected conservative in the United States. He's a motorcycle-riding war hero, a passionate Christian and a ...

New wrinkle in pot debate: stoned driving

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-17 10:31
DENVER (AP) -- Officials are grappling with a problem no one's sure how to solve: How do you tell if someone is too stoned to drive?...
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Lawyer for Afghan suspect to visit with him Monday

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-17 10:31
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 was flying Sunday to Kansas and getting ready to meet for the first time with the 10-year veteran....
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Puerto Rico votes; GOP candidates battle elsewhere

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-17 10:31
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- Conventional wisdom is that Republican front-runner Mitt Romney will clinch the nomination before the national convention in Tampa this summer. But no one sent challenger Rick Santorum that memo....
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Stoned-driving epidemic puts wrinkle in pot debate

DENVER (AP) — Angeline Chilton says she can't drive unless she smokes pot.

The suburban Denver woman uses medical marijuana to ease multiple sclerosis symptoms and says she never would get behind the wheel right after smoking. But her case underscores a problem that no one's sure how to solve: ...

Alternate juror disagrees with Rutgers verdict

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-17 10:31
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) -- An alternate juror in the trial of a former Rutgers University student convicted in a webcam spying episode that ended in his gay roommate's suicide said he disagrees with the verdict....
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Buried amid rape kit backlog: Justice for victims

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-17 10:31
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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Witness: Occupy protesters beaten during arrests

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-17 10:31
NEW YORK (AP) -- An Occupy Wall Street protester says police gave demonstrators little warning before kicking them out of a New York City park overnight and that officers beat several of them during the arrests....
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For a century, underground railroad ran south

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-17 10:31
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -- While most Americans are familiar with the Underground Railroad that helped Southern slaves escape north before the Civil War, the first clandestine path to freedom ran for more than a century in the opposite direction....
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For a century, underground railroad ran south

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-17 10:31
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -- While most Americans are familiar with the Underground Railroad that helped Southern slaves escape north before the Civil War, the first clandestine path to freedom ran for more than a century in the opposite direction....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

For a century, underground railroad ran south

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-17 10:31
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -- While most Americans are familiar with the Underground Railroad that helped Southern slaves escape north before the Civil War, the first clandestine path to freedom ran for more than a century in the opposite direction....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

For a century, underground railroad ran south

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-17 10:31
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -- While most Americans are familiar with the Underground Railroad that helped Southern slaves escape north before the Civil War, the first clandestine path to freedom ran for more than a century in the opposite direction....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US
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