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Heroin needles found with Iowa child's toys
Cities affected by anti-terrorism grant cuts
'Rockefeller' to go to Calif. on murder charge
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Gov. Daniels says US debt threatens American dream
Perry: Too busy with legislature for presidency
Man gets more than 200 years in Newark, NJ murders
8 hurt as 4 buses collide on LA-area freeway
Analysis: Oklahoma senator was debt-deal linchpin
Colo. woman accused of faking cancer gets jail
AP sources: Hill leaders agree on Patriot Act
Giver and taker, `Mighty Mississippi' never tamed
New website Gilt Taste: High-end items for foodies
Estimated cost of fighter jet trouble lawmakers
Emails show states didn't register execution drug
Ore. court rules medical pot users can have guns
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Obama: Assad must lead Syria democratic transition
Calif. beach city says 'surfing Madonna' must go
Ore. court rules medical pot users can have guns

Heroin needles found with Iowa child's toys

Posted: 19 May 2011 02:20 PM PDT

An Iowa City man is being held on more than $47,000 bond after police say they found hundreds of used heroin needles near his 7-year-old daughter's toys.

Cities affected by anti-terrorism grant cuts

Posted: 19 May 2011 02:10 PM PDT

Metropolitan areas still eligible for $662 million in Urban Area Security Initiative grants for fiscal year 2011:

'Rockefeller' to go to Calif. on murder charge

Posted: 19 May 2011 02:01 PM PDT

A German-born man who claimed to be a member of the famous Rockefeller family has agreed to return to California to face a murder charge in a 1985 killing.

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Posted: 19 May 2011 02:01 PM PDT

Gov. Daniels says US debt threatens American dream

Posted: 19 May 2011 02:01 PM PDT

Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels believes tackling the national debt should be a focus of anyone running for the White House. He just won't say whether it's a problem he will be taking on.

Perry: Too busy with legislature for presidency

Posted: 19 May 2011 01:50 PM PDT

Texas Gov. Rick Perry says he is too busy concentrating on the Legislature to think about the presidential buzz surrounding him this week.

Man gets more than 200 years in Newark, NJ murders

Posted: 19 May 2011 01:00 PM PDT

The third of six defendants in a Newark, N.J., schoolyard triple murder has been sentenced to more than 200 years in prison.

8 hurt as 4 buses collide on LA-area freeway

Posted: 19 May 2011 01:00 PM PDT

Four buses carrying military personnel and jail inmates have collided on a freeway east of Los Angeles and eight people have been hurt, one critically.

Analysis: Oklahoma senator was debt-deal linchpin

Posted: 19 May 2011 12:50 PM PDT

Maybe it was all a pipe dream -- the idea that a "Gang of Six" from across the Senate's ideological spectrum could solve the nation's deficit despite enormous obstacles placed in their way by President Barack Obama and leaders of both parties.

Colo. woman accused of faking cancer gets jail

Posted: 19 May 2011 12:50 PM PDT

A suburban Denver woman who duped family and friends out of almost $60,000 in donations will spend 90 days in jail.

AP sources: Hill leaders agree on Patriot Act

Posted: 19 May 2011 12:50 PM PDT

Top congressional leaders agreed Thursday to a four-year extension of the anti-terrorist Patriot Act, the controversial law passed after the Sept. 11 attacks that governs the search for terrorists on American soil.

Giver and taker, `Mighty Mississippi' never tamed

Posted: 19 May 2011 11:10 AM PDT

Abraham Lincoln called it "the Father of Waters"; 18th-century English novelist Frederick Marryat deemed it a "vile sewer" -- long before our industrial revolution turned it into one. The American Indians, says author Lee Sandlin, imagined it as "a giant sleeping snake that would wake up every seven years and attack whoever was alongside it."

New website Gilt Taste: High-end items for foodies

Posted: 19 May 2011 11:00 AM PDT

Heads up, foodies, there's a new culinary kid online promising nothing short of died-and-gone-to-heaven. If you're in need of a fascinating way to cook asparagus (cure it in salt and sugar), or a product so exclusive only top chefs were previously deemed worthy, then Gilttaste.com should have you drooling. Oh, and you get a dash of Ruth Reichl for a ...

Estimated cost of fighter jet trouble lawmakers

Posted: 19 May 2011 11:00 AM PDT

A senior Pentagon official is calling the estimated costs of the next generation fighter jet "unbelievable." He says they have to be reined in or else the military can't purchase more than 2,400 aircraft for the Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps.

Emails show states didn't register execution drug

Posted: 19 May 2011 10:50 AM PDT

Some of the states scrambling to import a lethal injection sedative in scarce supply failed to properly register with federal regulators before receiving the drug from overseas, according to emails released this week.

Ore. court rules medical pot users can have guns

Posted: 19 May 2011 10:40 AM PDT

The Oregon Supreme Court unanimously ruled Thursday that retired bus driver Cynthia Willis can have her medical marijuana and a concealed handgun, too.

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Posted: 19 May 2011 10:40 AM PDT

Obama: Assad must lead Syria democratic transition

Posted: 19 May 2011 09:40 AM PDT

President Barack Obama is telling Syrian leader Bashar Assad that he must either lead his country through a democratic transition or "get out of the way," the first direct U.S. challenge to the Assad family's decades-long autocratic grip on power.