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- Dad: Arizona girl's corneas saved vision of 2 kids
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- Pence urged to enter race for president in 2012
- Oregon road washes out, forces residents to walk
- Detroit police look for man suspected of raping 7
- $1b effort yields no bioterror defenses
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- Citing progress, optimistic doctors upgrade Giffords’s status
- Ailing responders may not be covered by WTC health act
- Three dead, three hurt as 10 cars crash on California’s Pacific Coast Highway
- Sargent Shriver in D.C.-area hospital
- Public opposition to health overhaul seen as easing
- Police charge teen in officer’s shooting
- Officer charged again in fatal accident
- House panel looks at records requests
| Dad: Arizona girl's corneas saved vision of 2 kids Posted: 17 Jan 2011 02:10 PM PST The father of the young girl killed in the Tucson mass shooting tells The Associated Press that his daughter's corneas have saved the vision of two children.            |
| Program provides Alaska whalers with 'float coats' Posted: 17 Jan 2011 01:50 PM PST Bowhead whale hunters in Alaska's northern seas have traditionally worn white as camouflage on the coastal ice, forgoing the use of personal flotation devices because they've been unavailable in white -- until now.  |
| Pence urged to enter race for president in 2012 Posted: 17 Jan 2011 01:40 PM PST An independent campaign to draw GOP Rep. Mike Pence into the 2012 presidential race is under way, with a veteran of the Reagan White House launching a petition drive on Monday urging him to enter the primary contests.  |
| Oregon road washes out, forces residents to walk Posted: 17 Jan 2011 12:50 PM PST Heavy rain and runoff from melting snow swelled a river across a road near Mount Hood, washing it out and forcing residents to evacuate on foot.  |
| Detroit police look for man suspected of raping 7 Posted: 17 Jan 2011 12:30 PM PST Detectives are searching for a man who they believe sexually assaulted seven women since New Year's Day and tried to attack another, Detroit's police chief said Monday.  |
| $1b effort yields no bioterror defenses Posted: 16 Jan 2011 09:36 PM PST WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is scaling back one of its largest efforts to develop treatments for troops and civilians infected in a germ warfare attack after a $1 billion, five-year program fell short of its primary goal.  |
| Nation remembers King in light of Arizona deaths Posted: 16 Jan 2011 08:49 PM PST ATLANTA — The federal holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr. has taken on added meaning for most Americans this year as they try to make sense of the violence in Arizona that left six people dead and a member of Congress fighting for her life.  |
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| Citing progress, optimistic doctors upgrade Giffords’s status Posted: 16 Jan 2011 08:48 PM PST TUCSON — In yet another sign of significant recovery during a remarkable week, the gravely wounded Representative Gabrielle Giffords was upgraded from critical to serious condition yesterday after a procedure to remove her from a ventilator was successful.  |
| Ailing responders may not be covered by WTC health act Posted: 16 Jan 2011 08:46 PM PST NEW YORK — There is no doubt that Richard Volpe is sick, and no doubt that the former police detective spent Sept. 11, 2001, breathing in clouds of soot at the World Trade Center.  |
| Three dead, three hurt as 10 cars crash on California’s Pacific Coast Highway Posted: 16 Jan 2011 08:42 PM PST LOS ANGELES — A car veered into oncoming lane of the Pacific Coast Highway during the weekend causing a 10-vehicle pileup that left three people dead and three others injured, authorities said.  |
| Sargent Shriver in D.C.-area hospital Posted: 16 Jan 2011 08:41 PM PST BETHESDA, Md. — Former Peace Corps director and vice-presidential nominee R. Sargent Shriver has been hospitalized outside Washington, a medical center spokeswoman confirmed yesterday.  |
| Public opposition to health overhaul seen as easing Posted: 16 Jan 2011 08:39 PM PST WASHINGTON — House Republicans plan this week to fulfill a Tea Party movement priority: trying to repeal the health care law passed by Democrats last year. But the pace and rhetoric of the drive have cooled in recent days, with lawmakers shaken by the attack on a colleague who backed the new law.  |
| Police charge teen in officer’s shooting Posted: 16 Jan 2011 08:38 PM PST LAKEWOOD, N.J. — A frenzied search for the suspected killer of a police officer ended early yesterday morning in the bedroom of a Camden apartment, where a SWAT team arrested a 19-year-old suspect.  |
| Officer charged again in fatal accident Posted: 16 Jan 2011 08:37 PM PST INDIANAPOLIS — The handling of an accident in which a police cruiser struck and killed a motorcyclist rocked Indianapolis and led to emotional allegations of a coverup. The case has been revived now that a new prosecutor has refiled drunken driving charges against the police officer driving the cruiser.  |
| House panel looks at records requests Posted: 16 Jan 2011 08:37 PM PST WASHINGTON — A House committee has reportedly asked the Homeland Security Department to provide documents about an agency policy that required political appointees to review many Freedom of Information Act requests before the records were released.  |
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