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SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) -- Campus police pepper-sprayed as many as 30 demonstrators after Santa Monica College students angry over a plan to offer high-priced courses tried to push their way into a trustees meeting Tuesday evening, authorities said....

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- One Goh's life was on the skids even before he became the suspect in the nation's biggest mass school shooting since Virginia Tech....

JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) -- Voters in Joplin appear to have approved the largest bond issue in town history, OK'ing a $62 million bond issue to rebuild or replace schools damaged or destroyed in last May's tornado....

DENVER (AP) -- Emergency officials told confused residents not to worry after they reported a fire on the outskirts of Denver, including at least two residents who later were found dead in their burning home, 911 calls released by officials Tuesday showed....

Six students and one employee died when a gunman opened fire at Christian-based Oikos University in Oakland, Calif. Three other people were wounded....

DALLAS (AP) -- Tornadoes raked the Dallas area Tuesday, crumbling a wing of a nursing home, peeling roofs from dozens of homes and spiraling big-rig trailers into the air like footballs. More than a dozen injuries were reported....

HOUSTON (AP) -- A federal appeals court judge on Tuesday seemed to take offense to comments President Barack Obama made earlier this week in which he warned that if the Supreme Court overturned his signature health care overhaul it would amount to overreach by an "unelected" court....

DALLAS (AP) -- Tornadoes raked the Dallas area Tuesday, crumbling a wing of a nursing home, peeling roofs from dozens of homes and spiraling big-rig trailers into the air like footballs. More than a dozen injuries were reported....

DENVER (AP) -- Emergency officials told confused residents not to worry after they reported a fire on the outskirts of Denver, including at least two residents who later were found dead in their burning home, 911 calls released by officials Tuesday showed....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Donald Trump wished a transgender woman who wants to be Miss Universe good luck on Tuesday as his organization said she can vie for Canada's spot in the pageant....

HOUSTON (AP) -- A federal appeals court judge seems to have taken offense at comments President Barack Obama made this week in which he warned that if the Supreme Court overturned his signature health care overhaul it would amount to overreach by an "unelected" court....

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) -- A rocket carrying a top-secret payload blasted off Tuesday from the California coast....

LAS VEGAS (AP) -- A Las Vegas lawyer who represented O.J. Simpson in the Nevada trial that led to the celebrity football star's conviction on armed robbery and kidnapping charges is suing Simpson's Florida-based lead attorney in the case, claiming he was stiffed on promised fees....

NEW YORK (AP) -- The newly released 1940 U.S. census is such a digital smash that it took a day for the website hosting it to get up to speed after tens of millions of hits almost paralyzed it....

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) -- For years, hundreds of Texas ranchers have made big money on exotic antelopes, with hunters paying up to $10,000 to bag just one dama gazelle, a rare animal with short horns curving outward....

URBANA, Ohio (AP) -- A landlord who found a woman's dismembered remains in her bathtub said he had felt compelled to break into the locked bathroom after her worried mother came looking for her....

LAS VEGAS (AP) -- A Las Vegas lawyer who represented O.J. Simpson in the Nevada trial that led to the celebrity football star's armed robbery and kidnapping conviction is suing Simpson's Florida-based lead attorney in the case, alleging that he wasn't paid promised fees....

DENVER (AP) -- Calls from confused and worried residents poured into Colorado sheriff's dispatchers for hours last week as a wildfire spread rapidly toward dozens of homes, with one caller expressing disbelief when told that the wind-fueled blaze was a "controlled burn."...

NEW YORK (AP) -- The newly released 1940 U.S. census is such a digital smash that it took a day for the website hosting it to get up to speed after tens of millions of hits almost paralyzed it....

BOSTON (AP) -- A couple of months before Election Day in 2010, the Massachusetts lottery began running a TV commercial in which it pronounced itself "the most successful state lottery in America" and boasted of providing a bounty of money for roads, schools, police and firefighters....