Pa. cops: Boy shot by gun from under mom's pillow
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Authorities say a 4-year-old boy has shot himself in the chest in Philadelphia with a gun he found under his mother's pillow. The shooting happened at around 7 p.m. Saturday in the Mayfair section of northeast...
Alaska's largest city breaks seasonal snow record
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A spring snowfall has broken the nearly 60-year-old seasonal snow record of Alaska's largest city. Inundated with nearly double the snow they're used to, Anchorage residents have been expecting to see this season's...
Navy jet crash a 'Good Friday miracle' _ but how?
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A 12-ton Navy jet loaded with tons of fuel crashes in a spectacular fireball into a big apartment complex, scattering plane parts and wiping out some 40 units. How is it that everyone survived? The mayor of Virginia...
National Review fires columnist accused of racism
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By Karen Brooks (Reuters) - The National Review has fired columnist John Derbyshire over a web posting in which he wrote that black people are hostile to whites and that white people should stay out of black
Autistic girl, 9, found dead at bottom of FLA pond
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A 9-year-old autistic girl who went missing from a children's party was found dead Saturday evening at the bottom of a nearby pond in west-central Florida. The Hillsborough County sheriff's office reported that the...
Gay Mormon students at BYU come out in Web video
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Students from a strict Mormon college that prohibits "homosexual behavior" have launched a Web video aimed at reassuring other gay and lesbian youth struggling with their faith and sexual orientation. The video...
Mom: Man accused in fatal cop shooting depressed
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The mother of a man charged in the fatal shooting of a Texas police officer said her son is a talented software engineer who has been struggling with depression for months after a bitter breakup with his longtime...
NY Catholic quits board over cardinal's gay stance
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A day before Easter, the head of New York's Roman Catholic archdiocese faced a challenge to his stance on gay rights: the resignation of a church charity board member who says he's "had enough" of the cardinal's...
Delta flight lands safely in Phoenix on 1 engine
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A Delta Air Lines flight from Atlanta to Phoenix has landed safely after one of the plane's engines shut down as it began to descend over Arizona. Delta spokesman Paul Skrbec says Flight 2046 carrying 159 passengers...
Neighbors fearful after shootings in Tulsa
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Residents of Tulsa's predominantly black north side said Saturday they're afraid a shooter is still roaming their neighborhoods looking for victims after five people were shot _ and three killed _ a day earlier. "We're...
Scarce water spreads disease on waterfowl refuge
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Dave Mauser walked the edge of a mudflat, peering underneath the dried brown rushes where one coot after another had gone to hide and then die. "Now the coots are getting the worst of it," said Mauser, head biologist...
5 men charged in slayings of 2 Michigan women
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Five men have been charged in the abduction and slayings of two Michigan women who were kidnapped and stuffed in a car trunk at gunpoint, a prosecutor said Saturday. Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy announced the...
Ex-Intel worker pleads guilty to stealing designs
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Federal prosecutors say an employee pleaded guilty to secretly downloading computer chip manufacturing and design documents from Intel Corp. while looking for a job elsewhere. Thirty-six-year-old Biswamohan Pani...
Furniture company's revival has global message
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When Bruce Cochrane's family furniture company became an empty factory, he wouldn't drive by the building, even though it was just a short ride from home. There were just too many memories of what was _ and what he was...
Budget official sounds warning on LA finances
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Los Angeles' top budget official says the city could go bankrupt if it doesn't overhaul its finances with new taxes, possible layoffs and the privatization of some city services. Chief Administrative Officer Miguel...
Clipboard hitting rotor caused Idaho copter crash
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A 2010 helicopter crash in a small Idaho town that killed two state wildlife biologists and the pilot was caused when an aluminum clipboard belonging to one of the biologists somehow fell out of the aircraft and hit the...
Manhunt underway in Tulsa after gunman kills 3
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By Kathy Finn (Reuters) - A manhunt was underway in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Saturday for a gunman involved in four shootings that left at least three people dead and two injured, authorities said. The gun
Calif teen breaks up with teacher after his arrest
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A Northern California teen who made national news when she and her high school teacher moved in together says she has broken off the relationship following allegations that he sexually abused another student. Jordan...
Tishman plans San Francisco offices as techs surge
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Growth of technology companies has spurred Tishman Speyer Properties LP to build San Francisco's first speculative ground-up office development project since 2007. Tishman said in a state
Detroit Mayor Dave Bing released from hospital
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Detroit Mayor Dave Bing has been released from the hospital, where he was being treated for blood clots in his lungs. Bing's office says he left Henry Ford Hospital on Saturday. The 68-year-old was readmitted Wednesday...
NBC fires producer over edited Trayvon Martin call
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By Chris Francescani NEW YORK (Reuters) - NBC News has fired a producer following a probe into its broadcasting of a misleading edit of an audio clip of a 911 emergency response call during coverage of the T
Walmart employee in Phoenix is shot and killed
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Phoenix police say that a worker at a Walmart store has been shot and killed during a robbery attempt. Police spokesman Sgt. Tommy Thompson says the employee of the west Phoenix Walmart Supercenter was killed shortly...
'Defiance' seen as cause of Calif. suspensions
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School suspensions were once reserved for serious offenses including fighting and bringing weapons or drugs on campus. But these days they're just as likely for talking back to a teacher, cursing, walking into class...
Big lottery winners often prize anonymity
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The tiny Illinois farm town of Red Bud is the kind of place with few strangers and few secrets. Yet the community of 3,700 has a lingering mystery on its hands: Who bought the winning Mega Millions lottery ticket, and...
Quotations of the day
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"I saw the parachute on the house and he was still connected to it, and he was laying on the ground with his face full of blood. The pilot said, `I'm sorry for destroying your house.'" _ Colby Smith to WVEC-TV after a...
Official: Attack suspect didn't show violent signs
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The suspect in a shooting rampage at a California Christian university that killed seven people was on campus because of a tuition dispute, but previously had not shown any signs of violence, the school's founder says. ...
Isn't it 'marvelous?' Obama seeks to define Romney for voters
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Today in History
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Today is Saturday, April 7, the 98th day of 2012. There are 268 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On April 7, 1922, the Teapot Dome scandal had its beginnings as Interior Secretary Albert B. Fall...
Cargo train kills 2 men on NY tracks over trestle
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Authorities say a cargo train chugging over a trestle in an upstate New York village struck three men walking on the tracks, killing two and seriously injuring the third. The injured man was taken to a hospital with...
Future unclear for WTC sphere that survived 9/11
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The 45,000-pound sphere sculpture that emerged largely intact from the rubble of the World Trade Center following the Sept. 11 attacks faces an uncertain future as officials prepare to remove it from the park where it...
No timetable for restarting California nuclear plant: Jaczko
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By Alex Dobuzinskis DANA POINT, California (Reuters) - The top U.S. nuclear official said on Friday his agency has not set any timetable for restarting the troubled San Onofre nuclear station in Southern Cal
Lawyer: Pasadena police scapegoated 911 caller
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A lawyer for a man who wrongly reported an armed robbery to 911 says Pasadena police are scapegoating his client in the shooting death of a college boy. Oscar Carrillo's lawyer Andres Bustamante said Friday that...
Syrian violence claims 27 dead in run-up to truce
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By Mariam Karouny and Douglas Hamilton BEIRUT (Reuters) - At least 27 Syrian soldiers, rebels and civilians were killed in violence on Friday, opposition activists said, four days before a troop pullback agr
Alaska predicts slowing decline in oil output
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Oil production from Alaska's North Slope will decline by about 3 percent annually over the next decade, a slower rate than in recent years, according to a semi-annual forecast released
UN Secretary General blasts Syria
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U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon strongly condemned Syria's government Friday for continuing to kill innocent civilians despite its commitment to pull all soldiers and heavy weapons out population centers by April 10....
Police: Ex-teacher arrested for sex abuse of minor
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A former California teacher who made national headlines when he left his job and family to move in with an 18-year-old student was arrested Friday on suspicion of sexually abusing a different student more than a decade...
Calif. college votes to delay disputed 2-tier fees
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Trustees at a Southern California community college reversed course Friday on a plan to provide classes using a two-tiered fee scale, voting to cancel a summer pilot program after students were pepper-sprayed at a board...
Jet Blue meltdown pilot has detention hearing waived
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By Steve Olafson (Reuters) - A JetBlue pilot who apparently suffered a midair mental meltdown last month and was charged with interfering with a commercial flight will not have to face a court hearing on Mon
U.S. again releases satellite images of Syria
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States released satellite images on Friday that it said showed Syria has artillery poised to hit residential areas and has moved some forces from one town to another despite calls
Connecticut lawmakers seek review after NCAA bans UConn
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By Karen Brooks (Reuters) - Two members of Congress said Friday they would seek a review of the National Collegiate Athletic Association after its decision to ban the University of Connecticut from the 2013
Official: Suspect returned to campus over tuition
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The founder of the California Christian university where a gunman shot and killed seven people this week said Friday that the former nursing student returned to campus because of a tuition dispute, but previously had...
Florida college may sideline band over hazing death
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By Barbara Liston ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - The Florida college rocked by the hazing death of a student who served in the ranks of its famed but scandal-plagued marching band may force the band to sit out
Police officer killed in Austin; suspect charged
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An Austin police officer was shot and killed while struggling to subdue a potentially intoxicated man at a Walmart in Austin on Friday, and two of the employees tackled the suspect and disarmed him until help arrived,...
Co-worker says Powell described snowy camping trip
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A former co-worker of Steve Powell's in Washington state says she contacted authorities about a snowy camping trip he says he took with his son and grandchildren in Utah around the time his daughter-in-law disappeared...
Polar bears have symptoms of mystery disease: U.S. agency
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By Yereth Rosen ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Symptoms of a mysterious disease that has killed scores of seals off Alaska and infected walruses are now showing up in polar bears, the U.S. Geological Survey (
Fla gov signs law inspired by Caylee's death
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Florida Gov. Rick Scott has signed a bill inspired by 2-year-old Caylee Anthony's death. The law increases the maximum penalty from a year in jail to five years in prison for knowingly making a false statement to...
Ohio grandmother guilty in case of locked-in girl
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An Ohio woman has admitted keeping her 9-year-old granddaughter in a barricaded bathroom when she wasn't in school. Prosecutors say 50-year-old Dayton resident Rivae (RY'-vuh) Hart pleaded guilty to abduction and...
Big lottery winners often prize anonymity
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The tiny Illinois farm town of Red Bud is the kind of place with few strangers and few secrets. Yet the community of 3,700 has a lingering mystery on its hands: Who bought the winning Mega Millions lottery ticket, and...
New charges filed against NM town's mayor-elect
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Alcohol, padded expense reports, prostitutes and kickbacks. Those are some the latest charges filed in New Mexico against the mayor-elect of the troubled border town of Sunland Park. Prosecutors Friday filed18 new...
Court papers shed new light on Iraqi beating death
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The family of a slain Iraqi-American woman flew to Iraq with her body just days after police sought a court order to search their house, cars and electronic devices for clues in the case that generated international...