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NC prisoners might lose legal advocates
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Vietnam veteran finally gets Bronze Star
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Drescher: Duke grad plays central role in ‘Blackboard Wars’
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Judge: Ariz. sheriff's office profiles Latinos
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Principal recounts tornado hitting Oklahoma school
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Toronto mayor denies he smokes crack cocaine
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Officials scale back search for abducted Iowa teen
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Students safe after armed man reported at school
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Trucker bumps I-5 bridge, sees tragedy behind him
The trucker was hauling a load of drilling equipment when his load bumped against the steel framework over an Interstate 5 bridge. He looked in his rearview mirror and watched in horror as the span collapsed into the water behind him. Two vehicles...
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Damage reported from magnitude-5.7 quake in Calif.
Residents in rural northeastern California assessed damage to their homes and businesses Friday from a magnitude-5.7 earthquake, one of the strongest temblors to hit the densely forested region in decades.
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18 hurt in shuttle bus crash near Atlanta airport
Eighteen people were taken to the hospital Friday, at least two in serious condition, after they were hurt in a crash between a hotel shuttle bus and a tractor-trailer near Atlanta's airport, officials said.
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FDA warns of infections tied to Tennessee pharmacy
Health officials are investigating cases involving patients who suffered complications after being injected with potentially contaminated medications made by a Tennessee specialty pharmacy.
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NATIONAL
Parolee indicted in theft of Gold Rush jewelry box
A parolee was indicted by a federal grand jury in the theft of a valuable Gold Rush-era jewelry box from the Oakland Museum of California, authorities said Friday.
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NATIONAL
Man accused of killing 5 in Illinois takes stand
A 34-year-old man accused of killing five members of a central Illinois family with a tire iron took the witness stand Friday, wiping away tears as he painted a horrifying picture of the murder scene.
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WORLD
Mexico: far fewer people disappeared than feared
Mexico's top security official said Friday that far fewer people disappeared during Mexico's drug war than were feared when the government released a list of about 26,000 cases.
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WORLD
Third term begins for Ecuador's President Correa
Ecuador's Rafael Correa began his third term as president on Friday under seemingly ideal conditions: extremely high popularity, a more than two-thirds majority in Congress, a stable economy and a badly splintered opposition.
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Ill. House approves guns plan opposed by governor
Gun owners could carry concealed weapons in Illinois, the last state in the nation to prohibit it, under legislation that swept through the House Friday with the backing of the powerful Democratic speaker from Chicago, a city torn by violence despite what critics claim are the nation's toughest ...
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NATION/WORLD
Canada: Qatar gives up bid to relocate UN agency
Qatar has abandoned its bid to relocate the United Nations civil aviation agency from Canada to the tiny emirate, ending a bitter fight between the two nations, both countries said Friday.
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NATIONAL
Biographer regrets affair with former CIA director
The biographer whose extramarital affair with then-CIA director David Petraeus triggered his resignation says she regrets the relationship and the harm and grief it caused her family.
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NATIONAL POLITICS
Calif. plastic ocean debris bill dies in committee
A California bill that would have required manufacturers to figure out how to keep the most common plastic junk out of state waterways died in the state Assembly without a vote Friday.
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NATIONAL
Journalist and author Haynes Johnson dies at 81
Haynes Johnson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who migrated from newspapers to television, books and teaching, died Friday. He was 81.







