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AP intern Armando Montano celebrated at service

Posted: 15 Jul 2012 01:19 PM PDT

Hundreds of friends and colleagues gathered Sunday for a memorial celebration for Armando Montano, a news intern for The Associated Press who died at age 22 in Mexico City.

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Hundreds search for missing Iowa cousins, 8 and 10

Posted: 15 Jul 2012 11:49 AM PDT

More than 350 volunteers have joined authorities in searching for two young cousins from Iowa whose bicycles were found abandoned near a lake.

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Authorities continue search for 2 Missouri sisters

Posted: 15 Jul 2012 11:29 AM PDT

Authorities continued to search Sunday for two sisters who disappeared from a western Missouri home, leaving behind two young children, their purses and a cellphone.

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Calif. cities eye plan to seize mortgages

Posted: 15 Jul 2012 12:09 PM PDT

In the foreclosure-battered inland stretches of California, local government officials desperate for change are weighing a controversial but inventive way to fix troubled mortgages: Condemn them.

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Con Ed reinstates workers' health insurance

Posted: 15 Jul 2012 10:19 AM PDT

Consolidated Edison has reinstated health insurance for 8,500 locked-out New York utility workers. A Con Ed spokesman said Sunday that negotiations with the Utility Workers Union of America Local 1-2 will resume Monday as another heat wave is expected to hit New York City.

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Behind the TV channel blackouts: stalling profits

Posted: 15 Jul 2012 09:29 AM PDT

Channel blackouts such as the one that resulted from the recent spat between Viacom and DirecTV have become far more common over the past three years. Consumers can thank the changing dynamics of the entertainment industry.

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While Batman awaits, 'Ice Age' tops box office

Posted: 15 Jul 2012 09:19 AM PDT

With Batman lurking, the prehistoric critters of "Ice Age: Continental Drift" ran off with the box office, with the movie earning $46 million in its opening weekend.

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Posted: 15 Jul 2012 09:19 AM PDT

Governors put off health care questions, for now

Posted: 15 Jul 2012 08:49 AM PDT

Millions of uninsured people may have to wait until after Election Day to find out if and how they can get coverage through President Barack Obama's health care law.

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Boston church prays for pastor abducted in Egypt

Posted: 15 Jul 2012 08:29 AM PDT

While family and church members prayed Sunday for the Boston Pentecostal pastor kidnapped with two others in Egypt, their abductor said he has had conversations with intelligence officials about their release.

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NY suit vs. Strauss-Kahn revisits dismissed case

Posted: 15 Jul 2012 08:09 AM PDT

A year after the criminal case accusing Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexually assaulting a hotel maid started to crumble, it's getting renewed scrutiny in her lawsuit over the encounter.

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Feds to reroute SF Bay ships to protect whales

Posted: 15 Jul 2012 08:09 AM PDT

Scientists studying the carcass of a 47-foot fin whale that washed up on a beach in the Point Reyes National Seashore last month found the creature's spine and ribs severed, likely from the propeller of one of the huge cargo ships that sail those waters.

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Arab Spring on campers' minds in Maine

Posted: 15 Jul 2012 07:39 AM PDT

The Arab Spring uprisings have brought a new sense of optimism to young people from troubled nations as they spend time at a special camp nestled in the hills of western Maine where they confront and resolve their differences.

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Tainted Montana town reaches cleanup milestone

Posted: 15 Jul 2012 07:39 AM PDT

Grass and freshly planted trees are sprouting in a new town park that sits atop the site of a vermiculite plant that once spewed asbestos dust across the mountain community of Libby -- a welcome dose of normalcy for a city that has become synonymous with lung disease and death.

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Obama: DC `feels as broken as it did 4 years ago'

Posted: 15 Jul 2012 06:39 AM PDT

President Barack Obama says Washington "feels as broken as it did four years ago," when he took office.

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Space workers struggle a year after last shuttle

Posted: 15 Jul 2012 06:29 AM PDT

A year after NASA ended the three-decade-long U.S. space shuttle program, thousands of formerly well-paid engineers and other workers around the Kennedy Space Center are still struggling to find jobs to replace the careers that flourished when shuttles blasted off from the Florida "Space Coast."

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Business schools offering PR tips to future CEOs

Posted: 15 Jul 2012 07:59 AM PDT

Whether it's corporate fraud, the Gulf oil spill, shoddy products or even the recession and weak recovery, capitalism's reputation is taking a beating, but public relations executives hope they have a fix for America's future CEOs.

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LA sheriff: Man recovers car 42 years after theft

Posted: 15 Jul 2012 03:49 AM PDT

A man whose prized sports car was stolen 42 years ago recovered the vehicle after spotting it on eBay , authorities said Sunday.

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Weather stops tandem lawn chair balloon flight

Posted: 15 Jul 2012 01:59 AM PDT

Hours into their lawn-chair balloon flight, two men made a hard landing after they were hit by hail and snow as thunderstorms swept into central Oregon. But their back-yard aircraft floated away.

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Mary Kennedy reburied away from Kennedy family

Posted: 15 Jul 2012 12:49 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.

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