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- Juvenile workers say staff assaults go unchecked
- Suspected thief kills himself at Kmart in Fla.
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- Deal would speed cuts in western coal pollution
- Pentagon chief worries about partisanship's impact
- Report: Troubled town turning 100 in July must go
- Livability trend puts walking expert in demand
- NC grapples with legacy of sterilization programs
- Gates: Obama is within law in Libyan operation
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- Gates: Iran supplying arms to Iraqi Shiite groups
- Gates: Military pressure key to talks with Taliban
- Obama campaign adviser Axelrod needles GOP field
| FBI: No explosives found on plane at Reagan Posted: 19 Jun 2011 01:20 PM PDT No explosives were found aboard a plane that landed in Washington Sunday after someone made a bomb threat at an airport ticket counter in Ohio, an FBI spokesman said.            |
| 2 workers, 2 patrons shot to death at NY pharmacy Posted: 19 Jun 2011 11:20 AM PDT A gunman shot four people inside a pharmacy in a New York suburb Sunday morning, killing everyone inside the store in what police said looked like a robbery gone wrong.  |
| Emotion high over NJ plan to close disability home Posted: 19 Jun 2011 10:50 AM PDT Karen Lee Colletti has severe autism, speaks only a few words and needs a diaper. When she was 27 and her parents felt they couldn't care for her at home any longer, they moved her to the Vineland Developmental Center, which cares for women with developmental and intellectual disabilities.  |
| Posted: 19 Jun 2011 10:50 AM PDT  |
| Ala. couple has sextuplets on Father's Day weekend Posted: 19 Jun 2011 10:50 AM PDT It's a big Father's Day for an Alabama man whose wife gave birth to sextuplets.  |
| Mo. Gov. Nixon ubiquitous as disaster commander Posted: 19 Jun 2011 10:40 AM PDT With floodwaters rising in 1993, Missouri Gov. Mel Carnahan surveyed swamped towns and farms, declared "the devastation is terrible," and then departed for a vacation in Italy. The next day, a torrential rain brought the flood to the capital city. Soon, Carnahan was cutting his vacation short to manage Missouri's biggest natural disaster in decades.  |
| Juvenile workers say staff assaults go unchecked Posted: 19 Jun 2011 10:40 AM PDT As a group worker at a juvenile correctional center, John Prevatt is willing to take an occasional punch or elbow as he tries to keep the teens who live there in line.  |
| Suspected thief kills himself at Kmart in Fla. Posted: 19 Jun 2011 09:30 AM PDT Police say a man suspected of trying to steal batteries and soda from a Kmart store in Florida shot and killed himself after being detained by security guards.  |
| Sex scandals highlight dearth of women in politics Posted: 19 Jun 2011 09:04 AM PDT The sexting scandal that forced New York Rep. Anthony Weiner from Congress last week capped a remarkable season of dishonor for male politicians -- from former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards' indictment on federal campaign finance charges related to hiding a mistress to former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's admission he'd fathered a child with the family maid.  |
| Deal would speed cuts in western coal pollution Posted: 19 Jun 2011 08:50 AM PDT Aging coal-fired power plants across the West could be forced to install costly pollution control equipment under a new agreement between federal regulators and environmentalists.  |
| Pentagon chief worries about partisanship's impact Posted: 19 Jun 2011 08:50 AM PDT After 40 years of working for presidents from both parties, Defense Secretary Robert Gates says he's learned that it takes bipartisan support to succeed in national security and foreign affairs.  |
| Report: Troubled town turning 100 in July must go Posted: 19 Jun 2011 08:50 AM PDT For nearly a century the fortunes of this tiny town were tied to the oil fields that surrounded it and the people who worked them.  |
| Livability trend puts walking expert in demand Posted: 19 Jun 2011 08:50 AM PDT When Dan Burden started approaching bureaucrats about making streets more pedestrian friendly 16 years ago, he could hardly get them to look up from their desks.  |
| NC grapples with legacy of sterilization programs Posted: 19 Jun 2011 08:00 AM PDT Nearly 35 years after ending the country's most active post-war sterilization program, North Carolina is the only state trying to make amends to thousands of people who cannot have children because of eugenics-inspired theories about social improvement.  |
| Gates: Obama is within law in Libyan operation Posted: 19 Jun 2011 07:40 AM PDT Defense Secretary Robert Gates says he believes President Barack Obama isn't required to seek congressional authorization for the U.S. military operation in Libya.  |
| States look to Internet taxes to close budget gaps Posted: 19 Jun 2011 06:31 AM PDT State governments across the country are laying off teachers, closing public libraries and parks, and reducing health care services, but there is one place they could get $23 billion if they could only agree how to do it: Internet retailers such as Amazon.com.  |
| Posted: 19 Jun 2011 06:31 AM PDT  |
| Gates: Iran supplying arms to Iraqi Shiite groups Posted: 19 Jun 2011 06:31 AM PDT Defense Secretary Robert Gates says Shiite extremists, not al-Qaida terrorists, are to blame for most of the recent U.S. military deaths in Iraq, and they're "clearly getting some fairly sophisticated and powerful weapons" from Iran.  |
| Gates: Military pressure key to talks with Taliban Posted: 19 Jun 2011 06:31 AM PDT As President Barack Obama nears a decision on a troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, his retiring defense secretary says he doesn't believe the Taliban will engage in serious talks about ending their fight until they are under extreme military pressure.  |
| Obama campaign adviser Axelrod needles GOP field Posted: 19 Jun 2011 06:29 AM PDT President Barack Obama's chief campaign strategist is dismissive of the Republicans who want his boss' job.  |
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