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News guide on the hows and whys of power outages

Posted: 03 Jul 2012 02:39 PM PDT

In the aftermath of storms that knocked out power to millions, overheated residents and elected officials are demanding to know why it's taking so long to restring power lines and why they're not more resilient in the first place.

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DA declines to file charges against Bryson

Posted: 03 Jul 2012 01:19 PM PDT

Los Angeles County prosecutors have declined to file criminal charges against former U.S. Commerce Secretary John Bryson who was involved in a trio of traffic accidents last month.

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San Diego man stranded after told on no-fly list

Posted: 03 Jul 2012 12:29 PM PDT

A San Diego civil rights group is trying to help a local man of Somali descent who has been stranded in Bahrain after trying to fly to Kenya, where he was told his name appears on the U.S. government's no-fly list.

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UN drug agency head slams anti-Jewish Iran remarks

Posted: 03 Jul 2012 12:20 PM PDT

The head of the U.N.'s drug fighting agency and the U.S. State Department have criticized anti-Jewish remarks made by an Iranian vice president last week.

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Mo. officer accused of trading no arrest for sex

Posted: 03 Jul 2012 11:59 AM PDT

A Kansas City police officer has been charged with corruption after prosecutors accused him of having sex with two women in exchange for not arresting them.

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Arkansas police: Ice cream used as excuse in crash

Posted: 03 Jul 2012 11:39 AM PDT

A woman accused of leaving the scene of a minor traffic crash in western Arkansas told police she did it because she didn't want her ice cream to melt.

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US military deaths in Afghanistan at 1,896

Posted: 03 Jul 2012 11:29 AM PDT

As of Tuesday, July 3, 2012, at least 1,896 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan as a result of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Press count.

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Snapshots from 4th day without power in eastern US

Posted: 03 Jul 2012 11:29 AM PDT

At Ayd Hardware in Towson, a chalk sidewalk sign said in big letters "YES/DRY ICE." That was enough to draw in Sheila Williams of the Lockhearn area of Baltimore County, who happened to be driving by.

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Hawker Beechcraft in talks with potential buyers

Posted: 03 Jul 2012 11:29 AM PDT

Aircraft maker Hawker Beechcraft is narrowing down a list of potential buyers as part of its plan to emerge from bankruptcy reorganization.

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Posted: 03 Jul 2012 11:29 AM PDT

Price tag on govt secrecy: up 12 percent to $11.4B

Posted: 03 Jul 2012 11:29 AM PDT

The price tag for safeguarding government secrets rose by 12 percent in 2011 to a record $11.4 billion.

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2 paths forward for uninsured, 1 clouded by ruling

Posted: 03 Jul 2012 11:19 AM PDT

Really? The Supreme Court's big health care decision means 30 million or more uninsured Americans are soon going to have coverage? It's far from that simple.

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Obama to sign student loan, road building bill

Posted: 03 Jul 2012 12:39 PM PDT

President Barack Obama on Friday plans to sign into law legislation that prevents interest rate increases on new loans to millions of college students and maintains jobs on transportation projects across the nation.

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19 kids found alone in filthy, hot Kentucky home

Posted: 03 Jul 2012 10:19 AM PDT

Authorities say a man and a woman in Kentucky left 19 children unattended for a week in a sweltering, filthy home.

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Hawker Beechcraft in talks with potential buyers

Posted: 03 Jul 2012 10:19 AM PDT

Aircraft maker Hawker Beechcraft is narrowing down a list of potential buyers as part of its plan to emerge from bankruptcy reorganization.

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One L of a name: LL Bean's initials get scrutiny

Posted: 03 Jul 2012 10:19 AM PDT

He's arguably Maine's best-known native son, right up there with Civil War general Joshua Chamberlain, poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and horror writer Stephen King. To his customers, he was simply known as "L.L."

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Text of Clinton statement on Pakistan

Posted: 03 Jul 2012 10:09 AM PDT

The following is the text of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's statement apologizing to Pakistan for a November NATO airstrike that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers and Pakistan re-opening supply lines to Afghanistan that it had closed as a result:

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Correction: Student Loan Anxiety story

Posted: 03 Jul 2012 09:59 AM PDT

In a story June 30 about student loan interest rates, The Associated Press erroneously reported the first name of the senior vice president for government and public affairs at the American Council on Education. He is Terry Hartle, not Terri Hartle.

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NY rabbi sentenced in NJ for laundering scheme

Posted: 03 Jul 2012 09:59 AM PDT

A New York rabbi broke down and sobbed Tuesday as a federal judge sentenced him to nearly four years in prison for laundering close to a million dollars in what he thought were illicit funds through a religious charity.

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Pakistan opens Afghan supply line after US apology

Posted: 03 Jul 2012 09:39 AM PDT

The Obama administration said Tuesday that Pakistan was reopening its supply lines into Afghanistan, after the U.S. belatedly issued an apology for the November killing of 24 Pakistani troops in a NATO airstrike.

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