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Rescue operation under way at N. Idaho silver mine

Posted: 16 Apr 2011 01:01 PM PDT

One miner was missing and a rescue operation was under way Saturday after a collapse at a mine in northern Idaho.

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Bogus Chinese-American militia marched in parades

Posted: 16 Apr 2011 12:11 PM PDT

They didn't have Army haircuts. Their boots didn't shine. And their uniforms didn't look right.

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OC Republican allegedly sent offensive Obama email

Posted: 16 Apr 2011 12:01 PM PDT

A Southern California Republican Party official is under fire after allegedly sending an email that included an altered photo depicting President Barack Obama as an ape.

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Couple says serial killer suspect stalked wife

Posted: 16 Apr 2011 11:21 AM PDT

A man charged in four killings that have gained national attention because of similarities in the victim's initials had set his focus on an apartment neighbor 30 years ago, an upstate New York couple said Saturday.

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Former president Clinton speaks at home dedication

Posted: 16 Apr 2011 11:21 AM PDT

Former President Bill Clinton says he wants the museum at his boyhood home to give visitors a sense that it's important to treat everyone as individuals.

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Correction: Wisconsin Supreme Court

Posted: 16 Apr 2011 10:51 AM PDT

In an April 15 story about the Wisconsin Supreme Court election, The Associated Press erroneously reported the state would bear the costs of a recount. Local municipalities and counties would cover the expense, not the state.

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Martha Stewart touts hard work at NY commencement

Posted: 16 Apr 2011 10:11 AM PDT

Martha Stewart tells graduates from a New York culinary school that the keys to success are generosity, passion and hard work.

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Labor protesters surround tea party at Palin rally

Posted: 16 Apr 2011 09:51 AM PDT

Hundreds of pro-union labor supporters surrounded smaller groups of tea party members waiting for former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to appear outside the Wisconsin Capitol.

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Exhibit chronicles lives of workers at Chernobyl

Posted: 16 Apr 2011 09:51 AM PDT

Families walk their children to school. Teenage girls smile backstage before a concert. Couples work out at a gym not far from villages where subsistence farmers draw well water and raise crops.

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Posted: 16 Apr 2011 09:51 AM PDT

Judging which sector receives higher pay is tricky

Posted: 16 Apr 2011 09:21 AM PDT

Focusing on benefits alone provides only a partial snapshot of employee compensation. The old rule of thumb was that public-sector workers enjoyed better benefits and job security to offset lower pay and that the two sectors would come out close to even when comparing salary plus benefits. Demonstrating whether that's true gets tricky.

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Do public employees get a better deal? It depends

Posted: 16 Apr 2011 09:11 AM PDT

A prosecutor in California collects $118,000 in unused sick days. A police officer in New York rings up $125,000 in overtime the year before retiring and "spikes" his pension payments. An Ohio school superintendent is hired for the same job from which he just retired and takes in more than $100,000 annually in salary and pension.

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NM boy, 9, preps for solo flight in balloon

Posted: 16 Apr 2011 08:11 AM PDT

Bobby Bradley is ready. He has been training for about five years and learned from some of the most experienced and decorated pilots in the sport of ballooning.

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Along Gulf, spill still defines state of mind

Posted: 16 Apr 2011 08:01 AM PDT

In the small brick church just across the road from the chocolate waters of Bayou Lafourche, the Rev. Joseph Anthony Pereira unbuttons his collar as the last parishioners pull out of the lot. Tonight, nearly a year after the BP oil spill began, he's asked his congregation of shrimpers and oil industry workers to think about lessons learned when survival ...

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Neighbor: NY mom in fight before fatal van plunge

Posted: 16 Apr 2011 07:21 AM PDT

A neighbor says a New York woman who drowned herself and her three children in the Hudson River had been in a loud fight with the kids' father in the hour before the fatal plunge.

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Iran blames US, Israel for Stuxnet computer worm

Posted: 16 Apr 2011 07:01 AM PDT

A senior Iranian military official says experts have determined the United States and Israel were behind a mysterious computer worm known as Stuxnet that has harmed Iran's nuclear program.

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AP Exclusive: al-Qaida in Yemen adapts to evade US

Posted: 16 Apr 2011 06:11 AM PDT

On Christmas Eve in 2009, intelligence officials anxiously monitored dozens of al-Qaida members as they gathered for a meeting in southern Yemen. The U.S. and Yemen had stepped up airstrikes and raids the week before, and al-Qaida was regrouping under one roof to figure out how to retaliate.

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Pawlenty courts tea partyers; call him `Tea-Paw?'

Posted: 16 Apr 2011 06:05 AM PDT

Republican Tim Pawlenty, "T-Paw" to his supporters, has increasingly tied himself to the new crop of grass-roots activists in the 2012 presidential campaign.

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2 adults, 3 kids found dead in Ohio home overnight

Posted: 16 Apr 2011 05:21 AM PDT

A sheriff's office says two adults and their three children were found dead inside their northern Ohio home and a preliminary investigation indicates murder-suicide.

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NYC pizzeria owner seriously wounded in stabbing

Posted: 16 Apr 2011 04:51 AM PDT

A man with a long criminal history was arrested on a charge of first-degree assault Friday in a vicious, broad-daylight stabbing of the owner of a popular Brooklyn pizzeria that is a favorite of foodies and celebrities, police said.

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