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Obama snorkeling with family, friends

Posted: 28 Dec 2010 01:41 PM PST

President Barack Obama is snorkeling with friends and family at Hanauma Bay, a favorite destination for the first family during their Hawaiian vacations.

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Maine AG: ATF agents justified in shooting biker

Posted: 28 Dec 2010 01:11 PM PST

Maine's attorney general says federal agents were justified in shooting and killing a member of the Outlaws motorcycle club during a gunfight last summer.

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Jimmy Carter helps release loggerhead sea turtle

Posted: 28 Dec 2010 12:51 PM PST

Jimmy Carter has helped release a rehabilitated loggerhead sea turtle during a family vacation in the Florida Keys.

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Man, 92, chews through tape after Wash. robbery

Posted: 28 Dec 2010 12:51 PM PST

Sheriff's deputies in Washington state say a 92-year-old man chewed through masking tape for two hours to free himself after two men bound him to a chair and robbed his house.

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NM maker of handmade guitars dies at age 82

Posted: 28 Dec 2010 12:41 PM PST

Lorenzo Pimentel, whose handmade guitars are played by professionals around the world, has died at age 82.

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New laws may not be on the books for very long

Posted: 28 Dec 2010 11:50 AM PST

A host of new laws will take effect around the country on Jan. 1, but some may not be on the books for long.

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Obama to delay next year's budget proposal by week

Posted: 28 Dec 2010 11:41 AM PST

President Barack Obama will push back the release of his budget proposal for fiscal year 2012 by about a week, a delay administration officials blame in part on a hold placed on Obama's nominee for budget director.

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Posted: 28 Dec 2010 11:41 AM PST

Self-defense claim in NYC body-in-luggage case

Posted: 28 Dec 2010 11:30 AM PST

Authorities say a man already on probation has admitted killing a woman whose body was found in a suitcase on a New York City street. He claimed she attacked him first.

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Obama to delay next year's budget proposal by week

Posted: 28 Dec 2010 11:10 AM PST

President Barack Obama will push back the release of his budget proposal for fiscal year 2012 by about a week, a delay administration officials blame in part on a hold placed on Obama's nominee for budget director.

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Governor: Palin e-mails won't be released 'til May

Posted: 28 Dec 2010 10:50 AM PST

The Alaska governor's office says it needs until May 31 to release potentially thousands of e-mails sent and received by former Gov. Sarah Palin.

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Rangel establishes legal defense fund

Posted: 28 Dec 2010 10:11 AM PST

Rep. Charles Rangel has established a defense fund that will allow supporters to help pay his legal bills.

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Police: Arizona strip club shooter fired at random

Posted: 28 Dec 2010 09:50 AM PST

A man accused of opening fire in a Phoenix strip club, killing two people and injuring three others, told police that he had planned the crime and chose the victims at random, according to a court document released Tuesday.

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US: No way to seal Afghan-Pakistan border

Posted: 28 Dec 2010 09:11 AM PST

There's no practical way for U.S. troops to seal Afghanistan's vast border with Pakistan and stop all Taliban fighters from slipping through, so they are focusing on defending vulnerable towns and fighting insurgents on Afghan soil, a U.S. military commander said Tuesday.

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2 planes bump at St. Louis airport; no injuries

Posted: 28 Dec 2010 09:11 AM PST

Inspectors are examining two US Airways planes that bumped each other on a runway while preparing to de-ice at Lambert Airport in St. Louis.

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Man in Wash. pushes stolen TV past police station

Posted: 28 Dec 2010 08:50 AM PST

Prosecutors in Washington state say a man was arrested when he was caught wheeling a 50-inch television in a shopping cart right past a police station.

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Maine ski lift accident results in injuries

Posted: 28 Dec 2010 08:40 AM PST

An official at a Maine ski area says people have been injured in an accident on a lift.

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Ohio Supreme Court rules for bus wreck survivors

Posted: 28 Dec 2010 08:30 AM PST

The Ohio Supreme Court says a university's insurance coverage extended to a charter bus that crashed, killing five student baseball players and two others.

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Survey shows consumer confidence slips in December

Posted: 28 Dec 2010 08:11 AM PST

Consumer confidence slipped this month as more people worried that the job market is worsening.

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E-mails, letters favor pardon for Billy the Kid

Posted: 28 Dec 2010 08:00 AM PST

More people say they favor a pardon for Billy the Kid than oppose the idea after Gov. Bill Richardson's office set up a website and e-mail address to take comments on a possible posthumous pardon for one of New Mexico's most famous Old West outlaws.

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