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- Man acquitted of assaulting retired priest in CA
- Insurance companies send crews to protect homes
- Fired Fla. lifeguard will be offered job back
- Father sues Calif. city over homeless son's death
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- House bill would cut food stamps, farm subsidies
- Midwest can't get any relief from oppressive heat
- US accuses China over duties on auto exports
- As US economy steadies, bank closings become rarer
- Father suspected in Oregon murder-suicide deaths
- Presbyterians debate Israel divestment
- NY joining revival of short-line rail industry
- Food abundance luring blue whales to Calif. coast
- US blacklists Eritrea officials over Somali unrest
- GlaxoSmithKline pleads guilty to health fraud
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- APNewsBreak: Navy dismisses exam-cheating claims
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- US concerned by rise in Afghan insider attacks
- UN council threatens sanctions on Mali fighters
| Man acquitted of assaulting retired priest in CA Posted: 05 Jul 2012 02:49 PM PDT A jury has acquitted a man charged with assaulting a retired priest he says molested him more than three decades ago in California.           |
| Insurance companies send crews to protect homes Posted: 05 Jul 2012 12:59 PM PDT When firefighter Eric Morris shows up at wildfires across the West, locals battling the flames sometimes look at him and wonder who sent him.  |
| Fired Fla. lifeguard will be offered job back Posted: 05 Jul 2012 12:59 PM PDT The Florida lifeguard who was fired after leaving his post to help rescue a swimmer outside his zone will be offered his job back, but he says no thanks.  |
| Father sues Calif. city over homeless son's death Posted: 05 Jul 2012 12:49 PM PDT The father of a mentally ill homeless man sued the Southern California city of Fullerton on Thursday alleging that a brutal beating by police officers a year ago led to his son's wrongful death.  |
| Posted: 05 Jul 2012 12:49 PM PDT  |
| House bill would cut food stamps, farm subsidies Posted: 05 Jul 2012 12:39 PM PDT The House Agriculture Committee on Thursday unveiled its approach for a long-term farm and food bill that would reduce spending by $3.5 billion a year, almost half of that coming from cuts in the federal food stamp program.  |
| Midwest can't get any relief from oppressive heat Posted: 05 Jul 2012 12:39 PM PDT The temperatures in Casimir Brandon's basement bedroom were so stifling that the exhausted 56-year-old Madison man began riding city buses in the morning, from one end of the line to the other, so he could grab a few hours of air-conditioned sleep.  |
| US accuses China over duties on auto exports Posted: 05 Jul 2012 12:39 PM PDT The United States launched a trade complaint Thursday against China at the World Trade Organization, accusing Beijing of unfairly imposing duties on more than $3 billion in exports of American-produced automobiles.  |
| As US economy steadies, bank closings become rarer Posted: 05 Jul 2012 12:29 PM PDT Fewer U.S. banks are failing than at any time since the financial crisis erupted in 2008. The healthier banking industry is helping sustain an economy slowed by lackluster hiring, weak manufacturing and Europe's debt crisis.  |
| Father suspected in Oregon murder-suicide deaths Posted: 05 Jul 2012 11:29 AM PDT An Oregon man whose wife filed for divorce in May is suspected of killing her and their two children on the Fourth of July at their home and then committing suicide, police said Thursday.  |
| Presbyterians debate Israel divestment Posted: 05 Jul 2012 11:29 AM PDT The largest Presbyterian group in the United States is considering divesting from three companies over the Israeli military use of their products in the Palestinian territories.  |
| NY joining revival of short-line rail industry Posted: 05 Jul 2012 11:19 AM PDT A railroad company is renovating rusty, overgrown tracks to get at millions of tons of waste rock at an abandoned iron and titanium mine near the source of New York's Hudson River and the highest peaks of the Adirondacks, part of a widespread resurgence of short line and regional freight lines.  |
| Food abundance luring blue whales to Calif. coast Posted: 05 Jul 2012 11:49 AM PDT Blue whales, the world's largest animal, are being seen in droves off the Northern California coast.  |
| US blacklists Eritrea officials over Somali unrest Posted: 05 Jul 2012 09:59 AM PDT The Obama administration is blacklisting six people, including Eritrea's intelligence chief and a senior Eritrean military officer, for their roles in allegedly supporting the radical Islamist al-Shabab group in Somalia.  |
| GlaxoSmithKline pleads guilty to health fraud Posted: 05 Jul 2012 09:59 AM PDT A federal judge in Boston has signed off an agreement by British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline to pay $3 billion for criminal and civil violations involving 10 drugs that are taken by millions of people.  |
| Posted: 05 Jul 2012 09:29 AM PDT The following recall has been announced: --------  |
| APNewsBreak: Navy dismisses exam-cheating claims Posted: 05 Jul 2012 09:19 AM PDT U.S. Navy investigators have dismissed allegations that pervasive cheating has tainted training exams administered to enlisted sailors and officers in the submarine force, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.  |
| Posted: 05 Jul 2012 09:19 AM PDT  |
| US concerned by rise in Afghan insider attacks Posted: 05 Jul 2012 08:49 AM PDT The Pentagon says an attack in eastern Afghanistan that wounded several American soldiers appears to have been perpetrated by an Afghan soldier.  |
| UN council threatens sanctions on Mali fighters Posted: 05 Jul 2012 09:49 AM PDT The U.N. Security Council has passed a resolution threatening sanctions against Islamist fighters in northern Mali.  |
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