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Air controller involved in 2nd potential collision

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 21:35
WASHINGTON (AP) -- An air traffic controller who nearly caused a midair collision last year has again been relieved of duty after putting two planes on converging courses. The case raises questions about whether employee rights are trumping safety at the Federal Aviation Administration....
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NKorea vows to keep its nuke promises: senator

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 21:35
NEW YORK (AP) -- A prominent U.S. senator met Friday with North Korea's nuclear envoy who promised to live up to commitments made in an agreement last week with the United States....

NKorea vows to keep its nuke promises: senator

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 21:35
NEW YORK (AP) -- A prominent U.S. senator met Friday with North Korea's nuclear envoy who promised to live up to commitments made in an agreement last week with the United States....

Corrections firm offers states cash for prisons

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 21:35
ATLANTA (AP) -- The nation's largest private prison company made an enticing offer to 48 states that went something like this: We will buy your prison now if you agree to keep it mostly full and promise to pay us for running it over the next two decades. Despite a need for cash, several states immediately slammed the door on the offer, a sign that privatizing prisons might not be as popular as it once was....
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Corrections firm offers states cash for prisons

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 21:35
ATLANTA (AP) -- The nation's largest private prison company made an enticing offer to 48 states that went something like this: We will buy your prison now if you agree to keep it mostly full and promise to pay us for running it over the next two decades. Despite a need for cash, several states immediately slammed the door on the offer, a sign that privatizing prisons might not be as popular as it once was....
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Corrections firm offers states cash for prisons

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 21:35
ATLANTA (AP) -- The nation's largest private prison company made an enticing offer to 48 states that went something like this: We will buy your prison now if you agree to keep it mostly full and promise to pay us for running it over the next two decades. Despite a need for cash, several states immediately slammed the door on the offer, a sign that privatizing prisons might not be as popular as it once was....
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Va. Tech president testifies: 'I tried my best'

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 21:35
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- Virginia Tech's president on Friday defended his actions during the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, saying in court: "I tried my best."...
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Company agrees to pay fine in deadly mine collapse

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 21:35
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- The operator of a Utah coal mine where a 2007 collapse led to the deaths of nine people agreed on Friday to plead guilty to two misdemeanor criminal charges and pay a $500,000 fine....
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Company agrees to pay fine in deadly mine collapse

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 21:35
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- The operator of a Utah coal mine where a 2007 collapse led to the deaths of nine people agreed on Friday to plead guilty to two misdemeanor criminal charges and pay a $500,000 fine....
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Company agrees to pay fine in deadly mine collapse

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 21:35
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- The operator of a Utah coal mine where a 2007 collapse led to the deaths of nine people agreed on Friday to plead guilty to two misdemeanor criminal charges and pay a $500,000 fine....
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5 Irish immigrants re-buried in Pa. cemetery

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 21:35
BALA CYNWYD, Pa. (AP) -- The remains of five Irish laborers who researchers believe were murdered in 1832 while building a Pennsylvania railroad received a dignified re-interment Friday, more than 3,000 miles from their homeland and nearly two centuries after their first anonymous burials....
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Romney's victories leave GOP leaders unimpressed

AP - Politics - Thu, 2024-11-28 21:35
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney's Super Tuesday victories elicited a collective yawn from his party's superdelegates....

NKorea vows to keep its nuke promises: senator

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 21:35
NEW YORK (AP) -- A prominent U.S. senator has met with North Korea's nuclear envoy who promised to live up to commitments made in an agreement last week with the United States....

After quakes, Ohio plans tough gas-drilling rules

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 21:35
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- A dozen earthquakes in northeastern Ohio were almost certainly induced by injection of gas-drilling wastewater into the earth, state regulators said Friday as they announced a series of tough new rules for drillers....
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Greek radical leftist insists on canceling bailout

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 21:35
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Greece's bailout conditions are so catastrophic for the country they must be rejected, the radical left-wing party leader who has a strong chance of winning the country's critical election this weekend insisted Tuesday....

Greece secures biggest debt deal in history

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 21:35
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Greece's private creditors agreed Friday to take cents on the euro in the biggest debt writedown in history, paving the way for an enormous second bailout for the country to keep Europe's economy from being dragged further into chaos....

Greece secures biggest debt deal in history

AP - Politics - Thu, 2024-11-28 21:35
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Greece's private creditors agreed Friday to take cents on the euro in the biggest debt writedown in history, paving the way for an enormous second bailout for the country to keep Europe's economy from being dragged further into chaos....

Israeli deputy FM: Arab demos 'diplomatic terror'

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 21:35
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel's deputy foreign minister says an annual protest Palestinians mounted over the weekend is "political terrorism."...

Paul: 'We will no longer spend resources'

AP - Politics - Thu, 2024-11-28 21:35
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Ron Paul, the congressman from Texas and a favorite of tea partyers, effectively ended his presidential campaign Monday but urged his fervent supporters to continue working at the state party level to cause havoc for presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney....

Paul seeks Kan. delegates, 'the more the merrier'

AP - Politics - Thu, 2024-11-28 21:35
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) -- Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul is calling Kansas "a fertile field" as he pitches his libertarian views the day before state caucuses for delegates to the party's national convention....
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