Wyoming town, population 1, sells for $900,000
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By Laura Zuckerman SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - The town of Buford, Wyoming - population 1 - was sold for $900,000 to an unidentified buyer on Thursday after an 11-minute auction that attracted worldwide intere
Pope marks Easter with call for Syria violence end
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Pope Benedict XVI implored the Syrian regime Sunday to heed international demands to end the bloodshed and expressed hope that the joy of Easter will comfort Christian communities suffering because of their faith. ...
North Korea readies longer range rocket, risks remain
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By Max Duncan and Jack Kim CHOLSAN, North Korea/SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has readied a rocket for a launch from a forested valley in its remote northwest this week that will showcase the reclusive state
7-year-old boy tied to Alaska arson fires
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A 7-year-old Juneau boy has admitted setting five arson fires over a little more than four months, according to fire officials in Alaska's capital. Juneau fire marshal Dan Jager tells the Juneau Empire ( !a...
Winter snowfall record set in Anchorage
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By Yereth Rosen ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - A storm dumped more than 4 inches of snow on Anchorage over the weekend, bringing the total snowfall for Alaska's largest city to a record 11.2 feet for the year
Suspect in dismembering says he met woman online
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A man suspected of stabbing, suffocating and dismembering his girlfriend told a newspaper that he met her through Facebook while looking for new friends and that he met two of his alleged accomplices at a library just...
Reports: 1 dead, 2 wounded in Texas beach shooting
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One person has been killed and two others have been wounded in a shooting during a packed Texas Gulf Coast beach party. Word of mouth about an unauthorized party spread on social media Saturday, drawing thousands to...
AP Photos: Observing Easter around the globe
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Christians across the world on Sunday celebrated Easter, the faith's most joyous holy day. At the Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI celebrated Mass on the flower-adorned steps of St. Peter's Basilica before a crowd that...
AP Enterprise: Alabama a top stop for justices
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The University of Alabama isn't an Ivy League law school like Yale or Harvard, yet few colleges are better at luring U.S. Supreme Court justices as speakers: Every current justice has either addressed `Bama students or...
Exclusive: Egypt's Islamist candidate says IMF deal unlikely
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By Patrick Werr and Marwa Awad CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood has warned the government it will not support an IMF loan unless the terms are changed or it moves aside and allows a new administr
Mali's president resigns, neighbors discuss north
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By Bate Felix BAMAKO (Reuters) - Mali's President Amadou Toumani Toure resigned on Sunday, paving the way for the soldiers who ousted him in a coup to stick by a deal to restore civilian rule and hand power
Exclusive: Mubarak aide presidency bid an "insult": Islamist rival
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By Marwa Awad and Patrick Werr CAIRO (Reuters) - A bid for power by Hosni Mubarak's former intelligence chief is an insult to Egypt's revolution that, if successful, would trigger a second nationwide revolt,
AP Sportlight
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1946 _ The Montreal Canadiens beat the Boston Bruins 6-3 to win the Stanley Cup in five games. 1947 _ Leo Durocher, manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, is suspended for one year by Commissioner A.B. "Happy" Chandler for...
In an old Chicago meat plant, greens and fish grow
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They call this place the Back of the Yards, a neighborhood in the middle of the city once filled with acres and acres of stockyards. In their heyday, those stockyards gave Chicago a reputation as the world's...
7 months after Irene, more cleanups in NY and Vt.
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Seven months after the deluge of Tropical Storm Irene, cleanups continue and worries remain in upstate New York and Vermont. Farmers in the fields this spring are still grappling with crop-smothering rocks, trees,...
Navy remains backbone after Va. Beach jet crash
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Virginia's most populated city has long had a love affair with the military, and several people left homeless after a fighter jet leveled their apartments say the crash won't change that. They're accustomed to seeing...
More women vets are homeless, but housing scarce
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Misha McLamb helped keep fighter jets flying during a military career that took her halfway around the world to the Persian Gulf. But back home, the Navy aircraft specialist is barely getting by after a series of blows...
Cost to pack state park artifacts will cut savings
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Shuttering dozens of California state parks to trim millions from the state budget will take more than simply hanging a "Closed" sign on trailheads and beach parking lots. Many on the closure list house thousands of...
LA looks to revive mythic past with streetcars
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Half a century after the last of the lost Pacific Electric Red Cars rumbled through Los Angeles, a move has begun to return streetcars to downtown LA. With a route chosen by the city and an environmental review begun,...
U.S., allies set priorities as Iran nuclear talks loom
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By Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Getting Iran to suspend higher-level uranium enrichment and close a nuclear facility built deep under a mountain are "near-term priorities" for the United States and
Veteran CBS journalist Mike Wallace dead at 93: CBS
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - CBS journalist Mike Wallace, who earned a reputation as a tough interviewer on the network's "60 Minutes" show, died at the age of 93, the network said on Sunday. (Editing by Bill Trott)
Fla. woman pleads not guilty in 'toxic tush' case
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A Florida woman accused by authorities of illegally injecting toxic substances into women's buttocks as an enhancement procedure has pleaded not guilty. The South Florida Sun Sentinel reports ( !a...
China sets up rare earth body to shake up industry
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China on Sunday set up a rare earth industry association, state media reported, in a move to speed up consolidation of its sprawling industry that has drawn fire for what overseas trade partners
Talks in Istanbul to target Iran's purer atom fuel
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By Dan Williams and Marcus George JERUSALEM/DUBAI (Reuters) - Talks this week on Iran's nuclear standoff with the West will resume in Istanbul, Iranian media said, while the U.S. and its allies look set to d
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...
Political, legal fights over school vouchers' fate
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Students like Delano Coffy are at the heart of brewing political fights and court battles over whether public dollars should go to school vouchers to help make private schools more affordable. He was failing in his...
Iranian media say talks to go ahead as planned
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Iranian media said on Sunday talks aimed at resolving a nuclear standoff with the West would go ahead as planned, in Istanbul later this week, but there was no official confirmation from Tehran or
Annan says Syria violence "unacceptable", breaks guarantees
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GENEVA (Reuters) - International mediator Kofi Annan said on Sunday an "unacceptable" escalation in violence in Syria violated guarantees made to him and called on Damascus to keep its promises to end the bloodshed
Racist past haunts Florida town where Trayvon died
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By Tom Brown SANFORD, Florida (Reuters) - The year before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier by becoming the first African American to play major league baseball, he fled the racist threats of townspeop
No injuries in UK military helicopter mishap in AZ
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A British Chinook helicopter made an emergency landing during an exercise in the Arizona desert, U.S. and British military officials said. Seven people were sent to the hospital for evaluations but all were reported...
Contracts expire for many at AT&T; talks ongoing
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Union contracts for 40,000 AT&T workers expired at midnight, but a strike was averted with officials saying early Sunday that talks were continuing. Though expiration of the deadline left the Communications Workers...
The nation's weather
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Scattered showers and thunderstorms are expected in the South on Sunday, while wet weather returns to the West Coast. A low pressure system moving across eastern Canada will continue pushing a cold front through the...
Syrian tanks pound province near Turkey-activists
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ANTAKYA, Turkey (Reuters) - Syrian forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad shelled an area in the rebellious province of Idlib near the border with Turkey on Sunday, killing and injuring dozens of people, opposit
Report: 1 dead, 3 wounded in Texas beach shooting
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Authorities say one person has been killed and three others wounded in a shooting during a packed beach party on the Texas Gulf Coast. Brazoria County Sheriff Charles Wagner told The Facts newspaper ( !a...
Support for peace talks growing, Afghan diplomat says
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By Rob Taylor KABUL (Reuters) - Support is building among Afghanistan's regional neighbors for a comprehensive peace process with the Taliban, but Pakistan's backing and access to insurgent leaders are cruci
U.S., allies to set demands for Iran nuclear talks: NYT
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and other Western nations plan to demand that Iran immediately close and ultimately dismantle a recently completed nuclear facility deep under a mountain as part of new talk
2 killed by train over NY trestle were brothers
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Police have identified the two men hit and killed by a cargo train chugging over a trestle in an upstate New York village as half brothers. A third brother was seriously hurt. Westfield village police Sgt. Brent...
Today in History
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Today is Easter Sunday, April 8, the 99th day of 2012. There are 267 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On April 8, 1952, President Harry S. Truman issued an executive order seizing the American...
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...