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Schools face tough calls with tornado outbreak

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-25 17:19
HENRYVILLE, Ind. (AP) -- The tornado came at the worst possible time for the hundreds of students loaded on school buses, ready to head home in Henryville, Ind....
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Schools face tough calls with tornado outbreak

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-25 17:19
HENRYVILLE, Ind. (AP) -- The tornado came at the worst possible time for the hundreds of students loaded on school buses, ready to head home in Henryville, Ind....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Schools face tough calls with tornado outbreak

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-25 17:19
HENRYVILLE, Ind. (AP) -- The tornado came at the worst possible time for the hundreds of students loaded on school buses, ready to head home in Henryville, Ind....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Romney pads delegate lead with Super Tuesday wins

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-05-25 17:19
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney padded his lead in the race for delegates Tuesday by winning Republican presidential primaries in Virginia, Massachusetts and Vermont....

Australian growth below forecast

BBC - News - Sun, 2025-05-25 17:19
Australia's economy expands by less than expected in the fourth quarter of 2011, sending the dollar to a six-week low.
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Authorities: Hackers busted when 1 turns informant

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-25 17:19
NEW YORK (AP) -- The shadowy underworld of Internet hackers was rocked Tuesday by news that one of the world's most-wanted and most-feared computer vandals has been an FBI informant for months and helped authorities build a case against five people they say were comrades....
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Authorities: Hackers busted when 1 turns informant

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-25 17:19
NEW YORK (AP) -- The shadowy underworld of Internet hackers was rocked Tuesday by news that one of the world's most-wanted and most-feared computer vandals has been an FBI informant for months and helped authorities build a case against five people they say were comrades....
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Obama rejects Syria intervention‎

BBC - News - Sun, 2025-05-25 17:19
President Barack Obama says the violence in Syria is heartbreaking but that unilateral US military intervention there would be a mistake.
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Sudan: Former UN official warns of Nuba Mts crisis

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-25 17:19
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- The former top U.N. humanitarian official in Sudan warned on Tuesday that Khartoum's military is carrying out crimes against humanity in the country's southern Nuba Mountains in acts that remind him of Darfur....

Sudan: Former UN official warns of Nuba Mts crisis

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-25 17:19
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- The former top U.N. humanitarian official in Sudan warned on Tuesday that Khartoum's military is carrying out crimes against humanity in the country's southern Nuba Mountains in acts that remind him of Darfur....

Herbert spine-chiller set for TV

BBC - News - Sun, 2025-05-25 17:19
James Herbert's best-selling ghost story The Secret of Crickley Hall is to be adapted into a BBC One drama starring Suranne Jones, it is announced.
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Exposer in Stolen Valor case fired

On a tour bus trip to Southern California Edison's Big Creek power plant, event planner Melissa Campbell was passing out snacks to dignitaries when one of them asked her a question that would change both of their lives and make U.S. judicial history.

"Do you know who I am?" asked ...

Economy key issue to GOP voters across states

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-05-25 17:19
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The economy is weighing heavily on voters' minds from north to south, even as Super Tuesday is showcasing vastly different slices of the Republican electorate, according to early exit polls conducted for The Associated Press in seven states. From more moderate Massachusetts and Vermont to more conservative states such as Oklahoma and Tennessee, the economy was the top issue....

Undertaker to the Afghan Taliban

BBC - News - Sun, 2025-05-25 17:19
The man who's recovered 250 corpses from Afghan battlefields
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Whitehall saving plan 'overspent'

BBC - News - Sun, 2025-05-25 17:19
Whitehall departments have been criticised for overspending by £500m on schemes that were set up to save money.
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Universities in Vikings project

BBC - News - Sun, 2025-05-25 17:19
Scottish and English universities are to work together in an effort to expand knowledge of Viking culture.
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Committee split on booze pricing

BBC - News - Sun, 2025-05-25 17:19
MSPs on the Scottish Parliament's health committee remain split over plans to set a minimum unit price for alcohol.
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Rep. Donald Payne of New Jersey dies at age 77

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-25 17:19
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- Days before U.S. Rep. Donald Payne died of cancer, it wasn't the phone calls of encouragement from presidents that cheered him. It was when a Washington hospital orderly recognized the New Jersey congressman as the only U.S. official to visit his village in the African nation of Eritrea....
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American Scene: Financier Stanford convicted in $7 billion Ponzi fraud

HOUSTON — Former Texas tycoon R. Allen Stanford, whose financial empire once spanned the Americas and made him fabulously wealthy, was convicted Tuesday of bilking his investors out of more than $7 billion through a Ponzi scheme he operated for 20 years.

A day after telling U.S. District Judge David ...

Super Tuesday voters assess pros and cons of field

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-05-25 17:19
COLUMBUS, OHIO (AP) -- Voters at Super Tuesday precincts drew a composite sketch, of sorts, of the Republican candidate they'd most like to have to challenge President Barack Obama in the fall. He'd possess Mitt Romney's economic cred, Rick Santorum's heartfelt conservatism and Newt Gingrich's intellect....
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