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AP-GfK Poll: Raw feelings ease over health law

Posted: 16 Jan 2011 01:51 AM PST

An Associated Press-GfK poll finds the raw feelings over President Barack Obama's signature health care overhaul have subsided some,

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3 dead as 10 cars crash on Pacific Coast Highway

Posted: 15 Jan 2011 10:51 PM PST

A car veered into oncoming lane of the Pacific Coast Highway, setting off a "very violent" 10-vehicle pileup that left three people dead and three others injured Saturday, authorities said.

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Arizona shooting victim arrested after threat

Posted: 15 Jan 2011 10:30 PM PST

One of the Arizona shooting victims was arrested Saturday and then taken for a psychiatric evaluation after authorities said he took a picture of a tea party leader at televised town hall meeting and yelled: "you're dead."

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Before shooting, suspect embarked on chaotic night

Posted: 15 Jan 2011 10:21 PM PST

He wandered through the dark streets of his hometown, meandering from one store to another on a furious all-night excursion as he prepared what authorities say were the final steps in taking revenge on a world from which he'd become progressively alienated.

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Posted: 15 Jan 2011 10:21 PM PST

Ex-candidate for Congress arrested

Posted: 15 Jan 2011 10:15 PM PST

An Indiana woman who ran unsuccessfully for US Congress last year was being held yesterday on charges that she made threats against judges and other officials on her Facebook account. Cheryl Allen, 51, of Martinsville, was arrested on eight felony counts of intimidation on Thursday, the same day authorities discovered the postings, which ...

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Suspect identified in N.J. police officer’s shooting death

Posted: 15 Jan 2011 10:07 PM PST

Police signed murder charges yesterday against a 19-year-old man they accuse of fatally shooting a New Jersey police officer who had driven up beside him and started to question him.

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Tea Party-backed school board dismantles integration effort

Posted: 15 Jan 2011 10:06 PM PST

The sprawling Wake County School District has long been a rarity. Some of its best, most diverse schools are in the poorest sections of this capital city. And its suburban schools, rather than being exclusive enclaves, include children whose parents cannot afford a house in the neighborhood.

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Obama pledges to turn the page, work with GOP and Democrats

Posted: 15 Jan 2011 10:05 PM PST

Citing "great challenges for us to solve,'' President Obama pledged to work with Democrats and Republicans in the aftermath of the Arizona shooting that killed six, grievously wounded a member of Congress, and brought legislative debate to a virtual standstill.

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Marine killed in Calif. exercise was Texan, 27

Posted: 15 Jan 2011 10:01 PM PST

Authorities say the Marine who was killed when an amphibious vehicle sank during a training exercise in a San Diego-area harbor was a 27-year-old Iraq War veteran from San Antonio.

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Evolution of a gunman

Posted: 15 Jan 2011 09:14 PM PST

Moments after the swirl of panic, blood, death, and shock, the suspect was face down on the pavement and squirming under the hold of two civilians, his shaved head obscured by a beanie and the hood of his dark sweat shirt.

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Deployed, then unemployed

Posted: 15 Jan 2011 05:23 PM PST

During the seven months that he was stationed in Iraq, Joe Janssen served as an assaultman, a job that involved manning the turret gun in a Humvee and using shoulder-fired rockets and other explosives to support his fellow Marines.

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Drunken-driving sensor in works

Posted: 15 Jan 2011 05:15 PM PST

The technology developed in the past decade to sniff out terrorist bombs may eventually be used to combat another scourge: drunk drivers.

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