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Mass. Sen. hopefuls have spent $68M on race so far

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 03:25 PM PDT

BOSTON (AP) — Republican Sen. Scott Brown and Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren ramped up their voter outreach efforts Thursday as new campaign fundraising reports show they've already spent nearly $68 million pursuing the same Massachusetts Senate seat.

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Posted: 01 Nov 2012 03:25 PM PDT

A state-by-state look at superstorm's effects

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 03:22 PM PDT

The massive storm that started out as Hurricane Sandy slammed into the East Coast and morphed into a huge and problematic system, killing at least 90 people in the United States. Power outages now stand at more than 4.5 million homes and businesses, down from a peak of 8.5 million. Here's a snapshot of what is happening, state by state.

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NH hospital in hepatitis C case must give records

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 03:19 PM PDT

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire judge says a hospital tied to a hepatitis C outbreak must grant public health officials broad access to patient records.

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Secret Service agent kills self amid affair probe

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 03:18 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — A senior Secret Service agent being formally investigated by the government for failing to disclose a long-standing relationship with a foreign citizen killed himself last week.

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Prosecutor: Kids slain in Illinois begged to live

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 03:12 PM PDT

NAPERVILLE, Ill. (AP) — A suburban Chicago woman ordered her 7-year-old son and a kindergartner she was babysitting to kneel on a bedroom floor and pray, then stabbed them both dozens of times as they begged for their lives, striking again and again as she told her son he was going to heaven, authorities said Thursday.

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Springsteen, Jay-Z to boost Obama on final day

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 03:26 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Some big-name celebrities will help President Barack Obama make his closing case to voters in the most competitive states.

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Jury convicts Calif. burglar who shot 90-year-old

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 03:07 PM PDT

NOVATO, Calif. (AP) — A Marin County jury has convicted a burglar of two counts of attempted murder for breaking into the home of a 90-year-old man and shooting him in the jaw.

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Correction: Charter School Audit story

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 03:04 PM PDT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — In an Oct. 24 story about a U.S. Department of Education audit of the division overseeing charter schools, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the audit was conducted by San Francisco-based research firm WestEd. It was conducted by the department's Office of Inspector General based on information gathered by WestEd.

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Blumenthal campaigns hard against ex-rival McMahon

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 03:04 PM PDT

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — It would be hard to find anybody who has campaigned harder for Senate candidate Chris Murphy than U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a fellow Democrat who has a personal stake in seeing him defeat Republican Linda McMahon.

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Maine get-away-driver sentenced

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 03:00 PM PDT

BANGOR, Maine (AP) — A Fairfield man has been sentenced to 31/2 years in prison for being the get-away-driver in an armed robbery of a federal credit union.

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4 injured at USC campus shooting in Los Angeles

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 02:59 PM PDT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Violence that sometimes borders the University of Southern California crept onto campus when an argument outside a Halloween party escalated to a shooting that critically wounded one man and injured three other people and led administrators Thursday to reassess policies of the school near high-crime neighborhoods.

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Fox says he'll hold hearings on 38 Studios

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 02:58 PM PDT

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — House Speaker Gordon Fox says the House will hold "substantive and thorough" oversight hearings in the next legislative session about what happened with the state's $75 million loan guarantee to former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling's video game company 38 Studios.

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Maine governor sees 'games' over Medicaid cuts

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 02:57 PM PDT

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Gov. Paul LePage said Thursday the federal government is playing "political games" over cutbacks his administration is seeking in the state's Medicaid program, or MaineCare.

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Ukrainian man enters not guilty plea to 4 charges

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 02:54 PM PDT

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Ukrainian man has pleaded not guilty to charges that he damaged an aircraft while disrupting a Salt Lake City-bound Delta Air Lines plane and then tried to bribe the FBI agents who arrested him.

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Posted: 01 Nov 2012 02:54 PM PDT

About 7,200 Mass. customers still without power

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 02:49 PM PDT

BOSTON (AP) — About 7,200 Massachusetts electric customers are without power days after superstorm Sandy struck the state.

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Exasperation builds on Day 3 in storm-stricken NYC

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 02:48 PM PDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Frustration — and in some cases fear — mounted in New York City on Thursday, three days after Superstorm Sandy. Traffic backed up for miles at bridges, large crowds waited impatiently for buses into Manhattan, and tempers flared in gas lines.

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Obama's closing case to voters recalls the past

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 02:46 PM PDT

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — President Barack Obama has spent months urging Americans to move forward. Now he's asking them to look back.

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7-year-old is 2nd victim in fatal NH crash

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 02:45 PM PDT

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire police say a 7-year-old girl has died of injuries from an Oct. 19 car accident that also killed her mother's boyfriend.

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