Arizona woman runs down husband with car for not voting: police
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PHOENIX (Reuters) - An Arizona woman, in despair at the re-election of Democratic President Barack Obama, ran down her husband with the family car in suburban Phoenix on Saturday because he failed to vote in the elec
Murder-suicide eyed in deaths of 5 in Ohio garage
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TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Three children, their uncle, and their grandmother were found dead inside a garage Monday in what appears to be a murder-suicide amid a custody dispute. A truck was running with hoses leading from...
Three women intertwine in downfall of David Petraeus
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By Rick Rothacker (Reuters) - Jill Kelley is a fixture on the Tampa, Florida, military scene, volunteering for community relations work with foreign military officers and their families stationed at MacDill Air
Burial records for military personnel posted online
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By Jennifer Dobner SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) - A genealogy website on Monday posted burial records online for more than half a million military personnel for the first time as part of a government bid to digitall
FBI agents search house of Petraeus' former mistress
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CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (Reuters) - FBI agents searched the North Carolina house of Paula Broadwell on Monday, signaling renewed activity in the investigation that revealed her extramarital affair with CIA Director
NY auction of Warhol works fetches over $17M
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NEW YORK (AP) — The first in a series of live and online auctions to raise money for the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts in New York collected over $17 million Monday. The auction at Christie's featured 354...
10 Things to Know for Tuesday
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Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and stories that will be talked about on Tuesday: 1. WHAT PETRAEUS THOUGHT OF THREATENING EMAILS Friends say the then-CIA director was shocked when he learned his...
News Summary: Thompson starts as NY Times CEO
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FIRST DAY: New York Times Co. CEO Mark Thompson started his job Monday amid a widening scandal at his former employer, the BBC. CEO BACKGROUND: Thompson, 55, left the British Broadcasting Corp. in September after...
Biographical details on NYT CEO Mark Thompson
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Mark Thompson, the former director-general of the British Broadcasting Corp., started work on Monday as the chief executive of The New York Times Co. Thompson started his new job amid a widening scandal at his former...
3 NFL QBs sidelined by concussions on 1 day
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Next week's big, nationally televised "Monday Night Football" showcase could feature a quarterback matchup of journeyman Jason Campbell of the Bears vs. untested Colin Kaepernick of the 49ers. Not exactly the creme de...
Indiana blast investigation focuses on natural gas
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The search for what caused a massive, deadly explosion that rocked an Indianapolis neighborhood turned to natural gas Monday, with officials checking gas lines and a homeowner saying a problem...
Manhattan bankruptcy court to open on Tuesday
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By Nick Brown NEW YORK (Reuters) - Federal bankruptcy court in Manhattan will reopen on Tuesday after being closed for more than two weeks due to flooding and other damage caused by Hurricane Sandy, according to
Meningitis-linked U.S. firm not a drug maker in 2003 -report
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By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Government health regulators in 2003 told the pharmacy now at the center of a deadly meningitis outbreak that its drug compounding activities did not constitute a manufactu
Jury deliberating in Houston day care fire case
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HOUSTON (AP) — Deliberations began Monday afternoon in the felony murder trial of a Houston woman who was out shopping while a fire broke out at her home day care, a blaze that killed four of seven unsupervised...
Will he stay in job? Pentagon chief says: "Who the hell knows?"
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By Phil Stewart ABOARD A U.S. MILITARY AIRCRAFT (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Leon Panetta refused to speculate on Monday about how soon he might step down and even joked that he couldn't rule out spending anoth
Analysis: Election over, U.S. cautiously mulls Syria options
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!P> By Peter Apps, Political Risk Correspondent WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With the U.S. election over and Syria's civil war growing bloodier and spreading, the Obama administration is quietly re-examining its...
3 NFL QBs sidelined by concussions on 1 day
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Next week's big "Monday Night Football" showcase could feature a quarterback matchup of Jason Campbell of the Bears vs. Colin Kaepernick of the 49ers. Not exactly the creme de la creme of the NFC. Why? Concussions, of...
Tulsa dad arrested after toddler found in cage
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A Tulsa man was arrested after police found his 18-month-old daughter locked in a metal dog cage, his naked 4-year old daughter outside on a cold afternoon and him asleep in a drug or alcohol...
'Skyfall' brings record Bond debut of $88.4M
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — James Bond is cashing in at the box office. "Skyfall," the 23rd film featuring the British super-spy, pulled in a franchise-record $88.4 million in its U.S. debut, bringing its worldwide total to...
2 crashes snarl traffic for Lincoln Tunnel drivers
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WEEHAWKEN, N.J. (AP) — Traffic is back to normal at the Lincoln Tunnel after two separate crashes. An eight-vehicle crash had closed an outbound tube of the tunnel at about 12:30 p.m. Monday. That was about two hours...
911 call: Malnourished Ohio boy 'stiff as a board'
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VERMILION, Ohio (AP) — A mother's frantic plea for help for her disabled 18-month-old son — "He's stiff as a board" — sent an ambulance crew to a reclusive family's home where they found the undersized boy and six other...
For federal Sandy workers, floating NY home is no cruise ship
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By Hilary Russ NEW YORK (Reuters) - Firefighter Sean Dos Santos left his two daughters in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, about a week ago, bound for New York and the devastation superstorm Sandy left behind.
Vt. college's ox meat will not be used for food
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POULTNEY, Vt. (AP) — An ox that lived on a Vermont college's farm and was put down amid an outcry over the school's decision to process it into meat will be not used for food. Green Mountain College says that...
Burial records for military personnel posted online
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By Jennifer Dobner SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) - A genealogy website on Monday posted burial records online for more than half a million military personnel for the first time as part of a government bid to digitall
Deaths of 2 in elder home renew mushroom warnings
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LOOMIS, Calif. (AP) — California health officials are renewing warnings about wild mushrooms after two elderly residents of an assisted-living facility near Sacramento, Calif., died after eating soup made with deadly...
Va. attorney general blocks innocent man's release
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — David Montgomery was jubilant when a judge ordered his son freed from prison, exonerated after the woman who accused him of molesting her admitted the story was a fraud. But that abruptly turned to...
U.S. to soon determine post-2014 troop presence in Afghanistan
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By Phil Stewart ABOARD A U.S. MILITARY AIRCRAFT, Nov 12 - The United States will determine in the next several weeks how many troops it will keep in Afghanistan as part of a residual force following the drawdown
Va. attorney general blocks innocent man's release
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia's attorney general says a judge did not have authority to order the release of an imprisoned man whose accuser recanted her sexual assault allegation. Brian Gottstein, a spokesman for...
Expert: Ky. earthquake not from mining
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Geologists say the 4.3 magnitude earthquake that shook eastern Kentucky over the weekend was too deep to be induced by the region's underground mining activity. The epicenter was about 10 miles...
FDA find bugs, bird at affiliate of meningitis pharmacy
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By Toni Clarke (Reuters) - U.S. health inspectors found bugs, a flying bird and other unsterile conditions at Ameridose LLC, an affiliate of the Massachusetts compounding pharmacy at the heart of the deadly meni
Sandy socks Md. grower of giant Christmas trees
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HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — Some Washington-area customers won't be getting the giant Christmas trees they ordered after Superstorm Sandy buried a Maryland farm in more than 2 feet of snow and snapped many of the 15- to...
Indian bronc rider from Mo. killed at Vegas rodeo
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Missouri man has died after being injured during the Indian National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas. Rodeo officials say 25-year-old J.D. Jones, of Goodman, Mo., died at a hospital after being critically...
Sandy socks Md. grower of giant Christmas trees
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HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — The World Bank, CIA and other Washington-area customers won't be getting the giant Christmas trees they ordered after Superstorm Sandy buried a Maryland farm in more than 2 feet of snow and...
China dodges politically sensitive questions at key congress
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By Ben Blanchard and Terril Yue Jones BEIJING (Reuters) - In 2007, a year before Beijing hosted the Olympics, China's Communist rulers made a special effort at a five-yearly congress to show the world transparen
Insight: Land conflict, impunity dim Cambodia's awakening
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By Stuart Grudgings and Prak Chan Thul NEAR BROMA VILLAGE, Cambodia (Reuters) - Cambodia's transformation from war-torn basket-case to one of Asia's most promising emerging economies is being overshadowed by a b
Final goodbyes for former boxing champ Basilio
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IRONDEQUOIT, N.Y. (AP) — Several hundred people packed a church Monday to say final goodbyes to Carmen Basilio, who won the world middleweight boxing crown from Sugar Ray Robinson in 1957 before losing a rematch six...
Statue of Liberty storm damage will take month to assess
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By Chris Francescani NEW YORK (Reuters) - The National Park Service expects to know within a month the total cost and time it will take to repair storm damage to Liberty and Ellis Islands and to reopen the Statu
Gas company says it did not get call about faulty furnace at Indianapolis house that exploded
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Gas company says it did not get call about faulty furnace at Indianapolis house that exploded. ...
Congressman Jackson leaves clinic amid reports of resignation talks
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By Mary Wisniewski CHICAGO (Reuters) - Illinois Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. has left the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, where he has been treated for bipolar disorder, a spokesman for the clinic said on
Planned Parenthood sues Oklahoma over WIC funding
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Planned Parenthood is suing the head of the Oklahoma Department of Health over the agency's decision to withdraw federal funding for three clinics in the Tulsa area that provide food and nutritional...
EU Commission proposes holding back 900 million carbon permits
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission on Monday proposed postponing the auction of 900 million carbon emission allowances from 2013-2015 until later in the next phase of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS),
News Summary: Greece may get 2 more years
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MORE TIME? Greece's international creditors are thinking about giving the country two more years to meet its debt-reduction targets, according to a draft document obtained by The Associated Press Monday. IFFY: The...
Look at how Syria neighbors are drawn into its war
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Syria's neighbors are increasingly being drawn into the country's civil war in a variety of ways, whether militarily or due to an exodus of Syrians fleeing the fighting at home. The spillover has raised concerns that...
Cardboard boxes blamed in Maine fire that killed 4
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ORRINGTON, Maine (AP) — Fire officials are blaming cardboard boxes stored near a wood-burning stove in a weekend house fire that killed a Maine man and his three children and hospitalized their mother in the deadliest...
New Yorkers' easier commute is welcome post-storm progress
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By Barbara Goldberg and Edith Honan NEW YORK (Reuters) - Millions of New York City commuters, whose routines were capsized by Superstorm Sandy, kicked off the work week on Monday with a slightly smoother trip th
North Korean food harvest improving, but still tight: FAO
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ROME (Reuters) - Food production in North Korea has risen for a second year but the impoverished country still faces shortages and widespread malnutrition, the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization on Mon
US seen overtaking Saudis as biggest oil producer
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The United States will become the world's largest oil producer by around 2020, temporarily overtaking Saudi Arabia, as new exploration technologies help find more resources, the International Energy Agency forecast on...
U.S. wins re-election to U.N. Human Rights Council
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By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States succeeded on Monday in its bid for re-election to the 47-nation U.N. Human Rights Council, a Geneva-based watchdog that has been criticized by Wa
Stocks slip as worries about fiscal cliff return
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Stocks are slipping in midday trading on Wall Street, erasing an early gain, as investors again turn their focus to the approaching "fiscal cliff." The Dow Jones industrial average was down 24 points at 12,791 shortly...
NY gets $9.5M from NC firm over soldier debt fraud
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (SHNEYE'-dur-muhn) has reached a $9.5 million settlement with retailer SmartBuy and its affiliated companies over debt fraud aimed at soldiers. ...