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Police: NC teen may have been abducted from Md.

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 01:00 PM PST

A North Carolina teen is missing after visiting relatives in Baltimore and police say she may have been abducted.

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Recalls: Clover and clover mix products

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 12:51 PM PST

The following recalls have been announced: --Clover and clover mix products from Sprouters Northwest Inc. of Kent, Wash., because they have the potential to be contaminated with salmonella. The organism can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. The company reports that a few cases of salmonella might ...

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US considering seeking new envoy to Venezuela

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 12:51 PM PST

The Obama administration says it may nominate a new ambassador to Venezuela after its previous choice was rejected by the government of President Hugo Chavez.

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Posted: 03 Jan 2011 12:51 PM PST

Police: Body of missing Ill. mom found in field

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 12:50 PM PST

Searchers on Monday believed they found the body of an Illinois mother of four who vanished last month after a car crash that killed her husband, leaving behind a slipper and footprints in the snow as the only clues as to her possible whereabouts.

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Dayton becomes first Dem. Minn. governor since '91

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 12:41 PM PST

Former Sen. Mark Dayton has been sworn in as Minnesota's first Democratic governor since 1991.

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GOP plans fast action across its new agenda

Posted: 02 Jan 2011 10:29 PM PST

Republican lawmakers have an ambitious agenda for the new Congress that convenes Wednesday, including repealing some or all of the health care overhaul law.

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NASA still trying to contact Mars rover

Posted: 02 Jan 2011 08:23 PM PST

The odometer on the Mars rover Spirit has been stuck at 4.8 miles for more than 1 1/2 years, and it has been incommunicado since March.

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Law to pay health bills of 9/11 workers signed

Posted: 02 Jan 2011 08:22 PM PST

President Obama signed into law yesterday one of the surprise accomplishments of the lame-duck Congress: a measure covering the cost of medical care for rescue workers and others made sick by toxic fumes and dust after the 2001 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.

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Sheriff’s deputy, suspect dead in Ohio standoff

Posted: 02 Jan 2011 08:21 PM PST

It began with a sheriff's deputy investigating a report of gunfire at a Springfield, Ohio, trailer park. By the time it was over, the deputy and the suspected shooter were dead, and a police officer was wounded in a shootout with the suspect.

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More than 1,000 dead birds fall in Ark.

Posted: 02 Jan 2011 08:19 PM PST

Wildlife officials are trying to determine what caused more than 1,000 blackbirds to die and fall from the sky over an Arkansas town.

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Alarms on sex assaults in military

Posted: 02 Jan 2011 08:18 PM PST

WASHINGTON — Soon after she arrived in Congress three years ago, Representative Niki Tsongas attended a luncheon in the Capitol honoring wounded soldiers. The Lowell Democrat, chatting with a military nurse who had served in Iraq and Afghanistan, heard something that shocked and motivated her.

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Navy to investigate officer’s lewd videos

Posted: 02 Jan 2011 08:18 PM PST

A top officer aboard a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier broadcast to his crew a series of profanity-laced comedy sketches in which he uses gay slurs, mimics masturbation, and opens the shower curtain on women pretending to bathe together, a newspaper reported.

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1 man, 4 children killed in Wash. fire

Posted: 02 Jan 2011 08:15 PM PST

The mother of four young children could only watch in horror as a fire early New Year's Day swept through her Redmond, Wash., apartment, killing her children and a 32-year-old man, officials and neighbors said.

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After 911 call, deadly fire ignites in Calif.

Posted: 02 Jan 2011 08:15 PM PST

Investigators found a body in a San Diego County house destroyed by fire, after a man called 911 saying he was going to shoot his wife and himself, authorities said.

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