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Nursing home with meth lab fire was cited earlier

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 22:39
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- A nursing home where a 31-year-old man died after a meth lab fire that injured several other people was cited for 18 violations last year, including not providing adequate care, according to state records obtained Tuesday....
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Authorities: 2 dead at Jacksonville high school

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 22:39
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) -- A man who was fired from a private school on Tuesday returned to campus with a gun hidden in a guitar case and shot the headmistress to death before committing suicide, authorities said....
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LA investment scam defendant dies in French jail

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 22:39
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A man charged in Los Angeles with running a $228 million real estate investment scam has died in a French prison....
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Green Beret dies trying to save daughters from fire

HOPE MILLS, N.C. — A decorated Green Beret who returned from his fifth deployment to Afghanistan last summer died Tuesday trying to rescue his two young daughters from their burning home near Fort Bragg. The girls were also killed in the blaze.

Edward Cantrell and his wife escaped from the ...

Obama escalates election fight in Ohio, Virginia

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 22:39
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In campaign mode for months, President Barack Obama is making his quest for a second term official with rallies in Ohio and Virginia while casting Republican rival Mitt Romney as a flip-flopping protector of the rich....
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Romney, GOP rivals vie in 10 Super Tuesday states

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 22:39
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The marathon race at a crossroads, Mitt Romney and his Republican rivals battled coast-to-coast in a Super Tuesday showdown across 10 states for more than 400 delegates - by far the busiest day of the campaign for the party's presidential nomination....
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Financier Stanford convicted in $7 billion fraud

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 22:39
HOUSTON (AP) -- Former Texas tycoon R. Allen Stanford, whose financial empire once spanned the Americas and made him fabulously wealthy, was convicted Tuesday of bilking his investors out of more than $7 billion through a Ponzi scheme he operated for 20 years....
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Judge temporarily stops Wisconsin's new voter ID law

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin judge on Tuesday granted a temporary injunction to stop the state's new voter identification law.

The ruling by Dane County Circuit Judge David Flanagan will stop the law from taking effect for the state's April 3 presidential primary election.

The Milwaukee branch of the ...

Oregon health care picks up where Obama left off

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 22:39
SALEM, Ore. (AP) -- Pregnant with her seventh child and desperate to kick a meth addiction, Madeline Hutchinson turned to a program from the local Medicaid provider that connected her with a mentor and other support that she says helped her get off drugs....
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Nursing home with meth lab fire was cited earlier

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 22:39
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Police say a man who died after a fire in a methamphetamine lab in an Ohio nursing home was not a resident or employee....
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Obama: Women are not an interest group

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 22:39
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama on Friday showered attention on helping women yet warned in the same motion that they should not be reduced to a uniform political bloc, declaring they are not an interest group and "shouldn't be treated that way."...
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Obama: GOP candidates display 'casualness' on war

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 22:39
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama says Republicans on the presidential campaign trail display casualness about war when they urge military action to halt Iran's nuclear ambitions....
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Obama: Unilateral action against Syria a 'mistake'

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 22:39
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama says that unilateral military action by the United States against the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad would be a mistake. He says the situation in Syria is more complicated than it was in Libya....
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SC county GOP wants hopefuls to sign purity pledge

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 22:39
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- A county Republican group in South Carolina wants its candidates to promise to not cheat on their spouses and not watch pornography. But the state GOP says it would be illegal to keep candidates off the ballot only because they refuse to sign the pledge....
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Hackers busted after one becomes FBI informant

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 22:39
NEW YORK (AP) -- A group of expert hackers who attacked governments and corporations around the globe has been busted after its ringleader - one of the world's most-wanted and most-feared computer vandals - turned against his comrades and secretly became an informant for the FBI months ago, authorities announced Tuesday....
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Soldiers sized up in Army equipment survey

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 22:39
The president may be talking about downsizing the military, but the size of the average soldier is growing....
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Obama announces new housing initiatives

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 22:39
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Obama is announcing new mortgage relief for members of the military and veterans as well as homeowners with government-insured loans. The initiatives are the latest administration attempt to help borrowers struggling under a depressed housing market....
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Financier Stanford convicted in $7 billion fraud

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 22:39
HOUSTON (AP) -- Texas tycoon R. Allen Stanford, whose financial empire once spanned the Americas, was convicted Tuesday on all but one of the 14 counts he faced for allegedly bilking investors out of more than $7 billion in massive Ponzi scheme he operated for 20 years....
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Financier Stanford convicted in $7 billion fraud

HOUSTON — Former Texas tycoon R. Allen Stanford, whose financial empire once spanned the Americas and made him fabulously wealthy, was convicted Tuesday of bilking his investors out of more than $7 billion through a Ponzi scheme he operated for 20 years.

A day after telling U.S. District Judge David ...

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