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- No early injury reports at NYC seaport fire
- How Penn State can repair its image
- Columbia Univ.: Would-be assassin never admitted
- Letters of SC soldier killed in Vietnam come home
- Indiana police say boy, 3, fatally shot father
- LA sheriff faces mounting legal challenges
- Atty: Pa. beating case no race-bias bellwether
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- In Calif., more Latinos among strawberry growers.
- Mary Kennedy reburied away from Kennedy family
- AP NewsBreak: Feds OK Fla. access to citizens list
- Wis. DA: Voter-fraud allegations unsubstantiated
- How did ex-slave's letter to master come to be?
- Ala. judge halts city's private probation practice
- Pa. revisits fondling complaint against WV bishop
- Chicago food fest struggles as revenues dwindle
- Text of ex-slave's letter to his former master
- French president says Peugeot plan is unacceptable
- British newspaper demands it simply stop raining
- Ore. man prepares tandem lawn chair balloon launch
| No early injury reports at NYC seaport fire Posted: 14 Jul 2012 02:49 PM PDT Firefighters have gotten a fire at New York City's tourist-friendly South Street Seaport under control.           |
| How Penn State can repair its image Posted: 14 Jul 2012 01:49 PM PDT A scathing report accusing Penn State coach Joe Paterno and other top university officials of hiding what they knew about Jerry Sandusky's sexual abuse of children is another crippling blow to a school and football program already reeling from one of the worst scandals in sports history.  |
| Columbia Univ.: Would-be assassin never admitted Posted: 14 Jul 2012 01:49 PM PDT An Uzbek man who pleaded guilty to plotting to assassinate President Barack Obama was never admitted to Columbia University's medical school, the university said Saturday, contrary to defense claims before he was sentenced to more than 15 years in prison.  |
| Letters of SC soldier killed in Vietnam come home Posted: 14 Jul 2012 02:09 PM PDT Four letters from a courageous South Carolina soldier who tried to tell his family about the fearsome battles that raged around him in Vietnam were returned to his family Saturday, some 40 years after he was killed.  |
| Indiana police say boy, 3, fatally shot father Posted: 14 Jul 2012 11:29 AM PDT Police say a 3-year-old boy accidentally shot and killed his father after finding the man's loaded handgun in a southern Indiana home.  |
| LA sheriff faces mounting legal challenges Posted: 14 Jul 2012 11:29 AM PDT Jail commanders condoning the beating of inmates. Evidence withheld from inmates accused of attacking guards. A photo of a woman wearing an official-looking badge while brandishing handguns at a nightclub.  |
| Atty: Pa. beating case no race-bias bellwether Posted: 14 Jul 2012 12:09 PM PDT Pittsburgh police are no strangers to civil rights controversies. The city was forced to hire more women and minority officers after a 1970s lawsuit. And in 1997, it became the first U.S. city to agree to Justice Department-enforced reforms to curb a "pattern and practice" of civil rights abuses, including improper arrests, brutality and a backlog of hundreds of cases ...  |
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| In Calif., more Latinos among strawberry growers. Posted: 14 Jul 2012 10:59 AM PDT Alejandro Ramirez was 15 when he crossed the U.S.-Mexico border to work alongside his father and brother in California's strawberry fields.  |
| Mary Kennedy reburied away from Kennedy family Posted: 14 Jul 2012 09:59 AM PDT Seven weeks after she hanged herself, Mary Richardson Kennedy was reburied in a Cape Cod cemetery 700 feet from her original grave near other Kennedy family members.  |
| AP NewsBreak: Feds OK Fla. access to citizens list Posted: 14 Jul 2012 09:59 AM PDT In a victory for Republicans, the federal government has agreed to let Florida use a law enforcement database to challenge people's right to vote if they are suspected of not being U.S. citizens.  |
| Wis. DA: Voter-fraud allegations unsubstantiated Posted: 14 Jul 2012 09:59 AM PDT Authorities who investigated allegations of voter fraud in a Wisconsin Senate recall election that went to a recount say they've found no evidence of criminal activity.  |
| How did ex-slave's letter to master come to be? Posted: 14 Jul 2012 09:29 AM PDT The photograph, scratched and undated, is captioned "Brother Jordan Anderson." He is a middle-aged black man with a long beard and a righteous stare, as if he were a preacher locking eyes with a sinner, or a judge about to dispatch a thief to the gallows.  |
| Ala. judge halts city's private probation practice Posted: 14 Jul 2012 09:29 AM PDT A judge has temporarily shut down what he called a "debtors prison" run by the municipal court of an Alabama city.  |
| Pa. revisits fondling complaint against WV bishop Posted: 14 Jul 2012 09:09 AM PDT Authorities have re-opened a 2007 fondling complaint against a priest who taught at a suburban Philadelphia high school and is now the Roman Catholic bishop of West Virginia.  |
| Chicago food fest struggles as revenues dwindle Posted: 14 Jul 2012 08:59 AM PDT Chicago's showcase summer festival, Taste of Chicago, is struggling to find a new identity amid dwindling revenues and more choices for cash-strapped residents and visitors.  |
| Text of ex-slave's letter to his former master Posted: 14 Jul 2012 09:39 AM PDT The famed letter written by an ex-slave in response to his former master's request that he return to the plantation, soon after the end of the Civil War. Different versions of the letter bear various spellings of the writer's name.  |
| French president says Peugeot plan is unacceptable Posted: 14 Jul 2012 07:49 AM PDT President Francois Hollande on Saturday denounced a plan by carmaker PSA Peugeot-Citroen to cut 8,000 jobs as unacceptable, and said it must be renegotiated.  |
| British newspaper demands it simply stop raining Posted: 14 Jul 2012 06:29 AM PDT Just. Stop. Raining. That was the unusual plea published in an editorial in The Times of London on Saturday, a measure of Britons' growing frustration with months of miserable weather.  |
| Ore. man prepares tandem lawn chair balloon launch Posted: 14 Jul 2012 02:59 AM PDT An Oregon gas station owner is preparing to fly aboard a pair of lawn chairs suspended from helium-filled party balloons across Oregon and Idaho and into Montana with an Iraqi adventurer by his side.  |
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