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Judge OKs release of records from Loughner search

Posted: 09 Mar 2011 01:11 PM PST

A judge overseeing the case against the suspect in the Tucson shooting rampage has approved the release of some records of a police search of the suspect's home.

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NYC teen arrested in death of sibling's hamster

Posted: 09 Mar 2011 01:11 PM PST

A New York City teenager has been arrested on a felony charge in the death of a younger sibling's hamster.

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Ga. piano company sentenced for smuggling ivory

Posted: 09 Mar 2011 01:01 PM PST

A Georgia piano importer has been sentenced to three years of probation after pleading guilty to federal charges of illegally smuggling internationally protected elephant ivory into the United States.

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Ex-Ky. officials sent to fed prison in vote scheme

Posted: 09 Mar 2011 01:01 PM PST

An ex-school superintendent and former county clerk are facing decades in federal prison for conspiring with a former judge and others to gain power and control politics in an eastern Kentucky county.

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Posted: 09 Mar 2011 01:01 PM PST

Suspect in Tucson shooting rampage enters plea

Posted: 09 Mar 2011 12:51 PM PST

The suspect in the Tucson, Ariz., shooting rampage has pleaded not guilty to dozens of new federal charges that accuse him of killing six people and wounding 13 others.

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Canadian in Alaska pipeline bomb plot deported

Posted: 09 Mar 2011 11:31 AM PST

U.S. authorities say a Canadian man convicted of plotting to blow up the Trans-Alaska Pipeline has been deported after being released from prison.

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82 percent of US schools may be labeled 'failing'

Posted: 09 Mar 2011 11:31 AM PST

Education Secretary Arne Duncan says an estimated 82 percent of U.S. schools could be labeled as "failing" under the nation's No Child Left Behind Act this year.

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UN chief asks top managers for 3 percent cuts

Posted: 09 Mar 2011 11:21 AM PST

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is asking his senior managers to help trim the world body's next spending plan by 3 percent.

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Father seeks answers in US student death in Spain

Posted: 09 Mar 2011 11:21 AM PST

The father of a San Diego State University student whose body was pulled from a river in Spain says he has not ruled out foul play in his son's death.

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St. Louis marshal only 2nd slain in US since 1993

Posted: 09 Mar 2011 11:01 AM PST

A federal marshal killed in a gun battle with a St. Louis felon he was helping to arrest is being remembered as a courageous member of an agency where death on the job was a rarity until recent weeks.

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Correction: Christian Concert-Soldiers

Posted: 09 Mar 2011 10:01 AM PST

In a March 8 story about soldiers who were ordered to remain in their barracks after refusing to attend a Christian concert on an Army base, The Associated Press incorrectly identified the affiliation of Col. Daniel T. Williams. He is with the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command.

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Fighting raises concerns about Libyan scientists

Posted: 09 Mar 2011 09:51 AM PST

The fighting in Libya has disrupted a sensitive U.S. government program to keep about 700 former nuclear and chemical weapons experts busy on civilian projects in the medical and petroleum industries there and prevent them from selling their dangerous knowledge in other countries, The Associated Press has learned.

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Relatives fight to adopt Fla. boy found in truck

Posted: 09 Mar 2011 09:41 AM PST

The aunt and uncle of a boy found in his adoptive father's truck burned with toxic chemicals are fighting to adopt him.

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Celebrity chef Guy Fieri's Lamborghini stolen

Posted: 09 Mar 2011 09:41 AM PST

Police say a thief using climbing gear rappelled into a San Francisco exotic car dealership and stole television celebrity chef Guy Fieri's $200,000-plus Lamborghini sports car.

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Justice Dept seeks fast ruling for health care law

Posted: 09 Mar 2011 09:22 AM PST

The Obama administration is asking a federal appeals court in Atlanta to act swiftly on a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the government's health care overhaul.

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Man pleads guilty to looking at passport files

Posted: 09 Mar 2011 08:21 AM PST

The Justice Department has now netted a dozen convictions of State Department workers who looked at confidential passport records of celebrities in violation of privacy laws.

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Posted: 09 Mar 2011 08:21 AM PST

Australian PM pledges cooperation with US

Posted: 09 Mar 2011 08:21 AM PST

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard (GIH'-lahrd) is endorsing the U.S. strategy in Afghanistan and says she is cautiously optimistic about the allied effort to root out terrorists.

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APNewsBreak: Ohio speeds atty access for condemned

Posted: 09 Mar 2011 08:11 AM PST

Ohio is changing its process for placing intravenous needles in the arms of condemned inmates to give them quicker access to attorneys in case something goes wrong.

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