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Motorcyclists dies in Franconia Notch, NH, crash

Posted: 13 Jun 2013 01:34 PM PDT

FRANCONIA NOTCH, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire State Police say an out-of-state motorcycle rider who failed to negotiate the turn into the former viewing area for the Old Man of the Mountain has died of his injuries.
    

Officials: Maine teen died from asphyxiation

Posted: 13 Jun 2013 01:33 PM PDT

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The state medical examiner's office says a 15-year-old girl allegedly lured to her death by a 20-year-old man using a phony Facebook profile died from asphyxiation.
    

Police: 4 dead in St. Louis murder-suicide

Posted: 13 Jun 2013 01:30 PM PDT

ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis police say four people are confirmed dead in a murder-suicide shooting south of downtown.
    

St. Louis police say shooting south of downtown was murder-suicide, shooter and 3 others dead

Posted: 13 Jun 2013 01:28 PM PDT

ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis police say shooting south of downtown was murder-suicide, shooter and 3 others dead.
    

1,000 Colo. Springs homes evacuating due to fire

Posted: 13 Jun 2013 01:27 PM PDT

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Residents of 1,000 homes in Colorado Springs are being ordered to evacuate because of a wildfire that's already destroyed at least 360 houses.
    

President Obama declares disaster 3 vt. counties

Posted: 13 Jun 2013 01:25 PM PDT

WATERBURY, Vt. (AP) — The president has declared a major disaster in parts of northern Vermont for public infrastructure damage during severe storms and flooding last month.
    

Police: 4 dead in shooting in St. Louis

Posted: 13 Jun 2013 01:22 PM PDT

ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis police say four people are dead in a shooting south of downtown.
    

Hittner nominated as health insurance commissioner

Posted: 13 Jun 2013 01:22 PM PDT

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Gov. Lincoln Chafee (CHAY'-fee) has nominated the former chief executive of The Miriam Hospital to be Rhode Island's next health insurance commissioner.
    

Colo. Springs orders residents of 1,000 homes to evacuate, first mandatory evacuations in city

Posted: 13 Jun 2013 01:20 PM PDT

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Colo. Springs orders residents of 1,000 homes to evacuate, first mandatory evacuations in city.
    

St. Louis police say 4 people confirmed dead in shooting south of downtown

Posted: 13 Jun 2013 01:18 PM PDT

ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis police say 4 people confirmed dead in shooting south of downtown.
    

Police block area of reported St. Louis shooting

Posted: 13 Jun 2013 01:15 PM PDT

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Police have cordoned off a section of a street south of downtown St. Louis amid reports of a shooting inside a business there.
    

Lots of fluids, rest after 3OT Stanley Cup opener

Posted: 13 Jun 2013 01:13 PM PDT

CHICAGO (AP) — No practice for the Chicago Blackhawks on Thursday. Same for the Boston Bruins.
    

Lawmaker: Terrorists change tactics after leaks

Posted: 13 Jun 2013 01:06 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said Thursday that terrorists are already changing their behavior after leaks about classified U.S. surveillance programs, but he offered no details.
    

Fredette backs Maine budget despite tax increases

Posted: 13 Jun 2013 01:01 PM PDT

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The top Republican in Maine's House says he supports a two-year $6.3 billion state budget that Republican Gov. Paul LePage has promised to veto because it includes tax increases.
    

Schizophrenia claimed in LA train platform killing

Posted: 13 Jun 2013 01:01 PM PDT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A defense attorney has told a Los Angeles jury that a homeless woman who pushed an 84-year-old woman off a train platform to her death was an unmedicated schizophrenic who had been released frorm a hospital three days earlier.
    

Jurors in Bulger trial shown collection of weapons

Posted: 13 Jun 2013 12:59 PM PDT

BOSTON (AP) — Jurors in James "Whitey" Bulger (BUHL'-jurz) racketeering trial have been shown a massive collection of weapons, including machine guns, allegedly owned by Bulger and his gang.
    

Officials ID body of NY Angel Flight crash victim

Posted: 13 Jun 2013 12:58 PM PDT

EPHRATAH, N.Y. (AP) — Officials have confirmed the body of a cancer patient who was in a small plane crash last month in upstate New York has been found.
    

Senators ask network to ban kids' junk food ads

Posted: 13 Jun 2013 12:42 PM PDT

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Four U.S. senators are calling on children's cable network Nickelodeon to ban ads targeted at children that promote and sell junk food and sugar.
    

Markey says Biden will make campaign swing in Massachusetts

Posted: 13 Jun 2013 12:42 PM PDT

Vice President Joe Biden will visit the Brockton area next week on behalf of US Representative Edward J. Markey, the Democratic Senate nominee told state lawmakers on Thursday, according to several people in the room. In a meeting with dozens of Democratic legislators at a Boston hotel before a State House ceremony honoring the late governor Argeo Paul Cellucci, Markey said that this weekend's campaign stop in Worcester by former President Bill Clinton would be followed by a vice-presidential visit. Biden would be the fourth major national Democrat in less than a month to come to Markey's aid in his special Senate election campaign against private equity investor and former Navy SEAL Gabriel E. Gomez. Michelle Obama came to Boston last month and President Obama rallied a Roxbury Crossing crowd on Wednesday.
    

Brady working to develop chemistry with new WRs

Posted: 13 Jun 2013 12:09 PM PDT

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — The New England Patriots have canceled the final practice of their three-day minicamp.