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NEW YORK (AP) -- A New York auction house has sold an original ticket to the 1912 launch of the Titanic and a dinner menu from the ill-fated ocean liner, plus items recovered from the wreckage miles underwater....

Elected mayors should have powers extending beyond city boundaries so they can "foster economic growth", a report suggests.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Tornado, hurricane or flood, nursing homes are woefully unprepared to protect frail residents in a natural disaster, government investigators say....

Fighting in the Afghan capital has ended, officials say, some 18 hours after the siege by Taliban militants began.

Anders Behring Breivik, who carried out bomb and gun attacks in Norway last year which left 77 people dead, pleads not guilty on the first day of his trial.

A government official at the center of lavish spending at a Las Vegas conference claimed his Fifth Amendment rights as he declined to testify before a House panel.

A frantic woman was worried about her children locked in the house with defendant. The district court’s finding of consent to enter was supported by the evidence. Moreover, there was sufficient evidence of exigency and the entry was not made to arrest or investigate a crime. State v. Morin, 2012 ND 75, 2012 N.D. LEXIS 80 (April 10, 2012).*

On staleness, “evidence of the manufacture of methamphetamine is closer to a regenerating conspiracy than a chance encounter in the night. On the continuum of long-versus short-term criminal operations, the manufacture of methamphetamine lies somewhere between growing marijuana and selling or consuming drugs.” It was at a residence, “the alleged criminals were entrenched rather than nomadic.” United States v. Redmond, 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 7504, 2012 FED App. 0405N (6th Cir. April 13, 2012).*

Post-Budget issues continue to dominate the headlines

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Starting next year, the check will no longer be in the mail for millions of people who receive Social Security and other government benefits....

The devastation from tornadoes that touched down in Kansas and Iowa Sunday left many families without homes, but no fatalities were reported in either state. Community officials in both states credited days of urgent warnings from forecasters for saving lives. The tragedy left many with damaged or destroyed homes, such as the Marquette, Kansas, house of Kevin and Zoey Patrick, which was reduced to a pile of rubble. Just as Marquette residents scoured through the rubble of their homes, so to...

The devastation from tornadoes that touched down in Kansas and Iowa Sunday left many families without homes, but no fatalities were reported in either state. Community officials in both states credited days of urgent warnings from forecasters for saving lives. The tragedy left many with damaged or destroyed homes, such as the Marquette, Kansas, house of Kevin and Zoey Patrick, which was reduced to a pile of rubble. Just as Marquette residents scoured through the rubble of their homes, so to...

ABOARD MS BALMORAL (AP) -- With prayers, a hymn and a moment of silence broken by a ship's deep whistle, passengers and crew on a memorial trip marked 100 years to the moment since the Titanic sent more than 1,500 people to a watery grave....

Joint US-Philippine military exercises get under way in the South China Sea, with Manila locked in a stand-off with Beijing over a disputed shoal.

CARTAGENA, Colombia (AP) -- Exposing a rift with Israel, President Barack Obama on Sunday insisted that the United States has not "given anything away" in new talks with Iran as he defended his continued push for a diplomatic resolution to the dispute over Tehran's nuclear ambitions....

CARTAGENA, Colombia (AP) -- Exposing a rift with Israel, President Barack Obama on Sunday insisted that the United States has not "given anything away" in new talks with Iran as he defended his continued push for a diplomatic resolution to the dispute over Tehran's nuclear ambitions....

Young Matilda stars enjoying their time on stage

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- A century-old tradition, the Full Crew Farallones Race has never been for the faint of heart: Winds averaging 10 to 20 knots and churning 14-foot Pacific Ocean swells are among the rough conditions typically braved by yachts and their crews during the daylong regatta, a spring favorite of skilled sailors....

Downing Street says there are "various options on table" to limit the tax relief on charitable donation and ministers want to "get the balance right".

CARTAGENA, Colombia (AP) -- Though physically absent, Cuba cast a big shadow over this Caribbean port at a summit of 30 Western Hemisphere leaders that ended Sunday....

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The search for four yacht crew members thrown from their boat during a weekend race off Northern California was indefinitely suspended, with the Coast Guard saying the "window of survivability" had passed....