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Details of Vt. teacher's death stun communities

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-05-19 10:07
St. JOHNSBURY, Vt. (AP) -- A snowplow driver and his wife went to great lengths to dispose of the body of a popular teacher they had just beaten and strangled, putting her nude body on a tarp, pouring bleach on it, weighing the corpse down with concrete blocks and tossing it into the Connecticut River, court documents allege....
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Details of Vt. teacher's death stun communities

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-05-19 10:07
St. JOHNSBURY, Vt. (AP) -- A snowplow driver and his wife went to great lengths to dispose of the body of a popular teacher they had just beaten and strangled, putting her nude body on a tarp, pouring bleach on it, weighing the corpse down with concrete blocks and tossing it into the Connecticut River, court documents allege....
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Myanmar shines spotlight on historic election

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-05-19 10:07
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Myanmar has sent out a surprisingly broad guest list for elections Sunday, hoping to showcase its democratic credentials to the world....

Trial begins in Kansas teen cheerleader's death

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-05-19 10:07
GREAT BEND, Kan. (AP) -- Prosecutors who say an "obsessed" Kansas man killed a 14-year-old cheerleader and burned her body at an asphalt plant must prove aggravating circumstances, such as sexual assault, to secure a capital murder conviction....
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Guerlain cosmetic empire heir convicted of racism

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-05-19 10:07
PARIS (AP) -- A French court convicted longtime perfume maker Jean-Paul Guerlain of making racist insults on national television and fined him Thursday (EURO)6,000 ($8,000)....

Guerlain cosmetic empire heir convicted of racism

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-05-19 10:07
PARIS (AP) -- A French court convicted longtime perfume maker Jean-Paul Guerlain of making racist insults on national television and fined him Thursday (EURO)6,000 ($8,000)....

Bluegrass pioneer Earl Scruggs dies at age 88

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-05-19 10:07
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- It may be impossible to overstate the importance of bluegrass legend Earl Scruggs to American music. A pioneering banjo player who helped create modern country music, his sound is instantly recognizable and as intrinsically wrapped in the tapestry of the genre as Johnny Cash's baritone or Hank Williams' heartbreak....
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18-year-old victim of grisly rape dies in Ukraine

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-05-19 10:07
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) -- An 18-year-old Ukranian woman died Thursday, two weeks after her grisly rape set off protests across the country against corruption and favoritism toward the wealthy....

2012 election far off but inaugural plans begin

AP - Politics - Mon, 2025-05-19 10:07
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The presidential election may be seven months off, but congressional leaders have already begun planning for the winner's inauguration. The first item of concern? Preventing another "purple tunnel of doom."...

2012 election far off but inaugural plans begin

AP - Politics - Mon, 2025-05-19 10:07
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The presidential election may be seven months off, but congressional leaders have already begun planning for the winner's inauguration. The first item of concern? Preventing another "purple tunnel of doom."...

Nome residents roll along with higher fuel prices

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-05-19 10:07
NOME, Alaska (AP) -- The measure of how challenging it can be to live in Nome, Alaska, starts with a dollar sign....
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House ready to OK GOP budget, rejects rival plans

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-05-19 10:07
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans are ready to ram through the House an election-year, $3.5 trillion budget that showcases their deficit-cutting plan for revamping Medicare and slicing everything from food stamps to transportation while rejecting President Barack Obama's call to raise taxes on the rich....
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House ready to OK GOP budget, rejects rival plans

AP - Politics - Mon, 2025-05-19 10:07
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans are ready to ram through the House an election-year, $3.5 trillion budget that showcases their deficit-cutting plan for revamping Medicare and slicing everything from food stamps to transportation while rejecting President Barack Obama's call to raise taxes on the rich....

JetBlue pilot's unraveling baffles friends

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-05-19 10:07
RICHMOND HILL, Ga. (AP) -- No one recalls JetBlue Airways captain Clayton Osbon coming unhinged before. Not the airline that let him fly for 12 years, the neighbors in his secluded waterfront community or the friends he tried selling weight-loss shakes to on the side....
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JetBlue pilot's unraveling baffles friends

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-05-19 10:07
RICHMOND HILL, Ga. (AP) -- No one recalls JetBlue Airways captain Clayton Osbon coming unhinged before. Not the airline that let him fly for 12 years, the neighbors in his secluded waterfront community or the friends he tried selling weight-loss shakes to on the side....
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Obama outspends Republican campaigns by millions

AP - Politics - Mon, 2025-05-19 10:07
CHICAGO (AP) -- With Republicans locked in a contentious and expensive primary, President Barack Obama has spent a small fortune in recent months to build and maintain a campaign operation that is larger, more diverse and more focused on November's general election than any of his opponents' organizations....

Obama outspends Republican campaigns by millions

AP - Politics - Mon, 2025-05-19 10:07
CHICAGO (AP) -- With Republicans locked in a contentious and expensive primary, President Barack Obama has spent a small fortune in recent months to build and maintain a campaign operation that is larger, more diverse and more focused on November's general election than any of his opponents' organizations....

Muslim leader: Algeria doesn't want gunman's body

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-05-19 10:07
TOULOUSE, France (AP) -- Religious leaders say a young man who claimed responsibility for France's worst terror attacks in years will be buried in a Muslim cemetery near the southern city where he was killed in a gunfight with police....

Arab summit opens in Iraqi capital

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-05-19 10:07
BAGHDAD (AP) -- The Arab summit has opened in Baghdad with only 10 leaders from the 22-member Arab League in attendance....

French nuclear physicist faces terror trial

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-05-19 10:07
PARIS (AP) -- For Adlene Hicheur, France's biggest terror attacks in years could not have come at a worse time....
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