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Many willing to cut Afghan shooting suspect slack

Thu, 2024-11-28 06:44
He is accused of the kind of crime that makes people shiver, the killing of families in their own homes under cover of night, the butchery of defenseless children. Under normal circumstances, Americans would dismiss such an act as worthy of only one response: swift and merciless punishment....
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New wrinkle in pot debate: stoned driving

Thu, 2024-11-28 06:44
DENVER (AP) -- Angeline Chilton says she can't drive unless she smokes pot. The suburban Denver woman says she'd never get behind the wheel right after smoking, but she does use medical marijuana twice a day to ease tremors caused by multiple sclerosis that previously left her homebound....
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Alternate juror disagrees with Rutgers verdict

Thu, 2024-11-28 06:44
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) -- An alternate juror in the trial of a former Rutgers University student convicted in a webcam spying episode that ended in his gay roommate's suicide said he disagrees with the verdict....
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NYC activists differ on Occupy's direction

Thu, 2024-11-28 06:44
NEW YORK (AP) -- A day after police broke up a rally at Manhattan's Zuccotti Park and arrested dozens, Occupy Wall Street protesters said Sunday that their movement for economic justice would pick up momentum with the spring....
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Census documenting Great Depression to be released

Thu, 2024-11-28 06:44
NEW YORK (AP) -- It was a decade when tens of millions of people in the U.S. experienced mass unemployment and social upheaval as the nation clawed its way out of the Great Depression and rumblings of global war were heard from abroad....
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Buried amid rape kit backlog: Justice for victims

Thu, 2024-11-28 06:44
DETROIT (AP) -- For nearly two decades, Carol Bart's untested rape kit collected dust in a police evidence room. Her attacker, who kidnapped her from outside her Dallas apartment and repeatedly raped her at knifepoint, had spent time in prison by coincidence, but not for sexually assaulting Bart....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

New wrinkle in pot debate: stoned driving

Thu, 2024-11-28 06:44
DENVER (AP) -- Officials are grappling with a problem no one's sure how to solve: How do you tell if someone is too stoned to drive?...
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Lawyer for Afghan suspect to visit with him Monday

Thu, 2024-11-28 06:44
SEATTLE (AP) -- With formal charges looming against his client within days, the lawyer for an Army sergeant suspected in the horrific nighttime slaughter of 16 Afghan villagers was flying Sunday to Kansas and getting ready to meet for the first time with the 10-year veteran....
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Puerto Rico votes; GOP candidates battle elsewhere

Thu, 2024-11-28 06:44
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- Conventional wisdom is that Republican front-runner Mitt Romney will clinch the nomination before the national convention in Tampa this summer. But no one sent challenger Rick Santorum that memo....
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Alternate juror disagrees with Rutgers verdict

Thu, 2024-11-28 06:44
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) -- An alternate juror in the trial of a former Rutgers University student convicted in a webcam spying episode that ended in his gay roommate's suicide said he disagrees with the verdict....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Buried amid rape kit backlog: Justice for victims

Thu, 2024-11-28 06:44
DETROIT (AP) -- For nearly two decades, Carol Bart's untested rape kit collected dust in a police evidence room. Her attacker, who kidnapped her from outside her Dallas apartment and repeatedly raped her at knifepoint, had spent time in prison by coincidence, but not for sexually assaulting Bart....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Witness: Occupy protesters beaten during arrests

Thu, 2024-11-28 06:44
NEW YORK (AP) -- An Occupy Wall Street protester says police gave demonstrators little warning before kicking them out of a New York City park overnight and that officers beat several of them during the arrests....
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For a century, underground railroad ran south

Thu, 2024-11-28 06:44
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -- While most Americans are familiar with the Underground Railroad that helped Southern slaves escape north before the Civil War, the first clandestine path to freedom ran for more than a century in the opposite direction....
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For a century, underground railroad ran south

Thu, 2024-11-28 06:44
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -- While most Americans are familiar with the Underground Railroad that helped Southern slaves escape north before the Civil War, the first clandestine path to freedom ran for more than a century in the opposite direction....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

For a century, underground railroad ran south

Thu, 2024-11-28 06:44
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -- While most Americans are familiar with the Underground Railroad that helped Southern slaves escape north before the Civil War, the first clandestine path to freedom ran for more than a century in the opposite direction....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

For a century, underground railroad ran south

Thu, 2024-11-28 06:44
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -- While most Americans are familiar with the Underground Railroad that helped Southern slaves escape north before the Civil War, the first clandestine path to freedom ran for more than a century in the opposite direction....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Obamas visit historic church near White House

Thu, 2024-11-28 06:44
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama attended service at a historic church that is steps away from the White House and often frequented by sitting presidents....
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4 GOP-appointed justices control health law's fate

Thu, 2024-11-28 06:44
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Here's a thought that can't comfort President Barack Obama: The fate of his health care overhaul rests with four Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices....
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'21 Jump Street' leaps to No. 1 with $35M debut

Thu, 2024-11-28 06:44
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Audiences are heading back to school for the TV update "21 Jump Street," which has opened as the No. 1 weekend movie with $35 million....
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Sheriff: Adult, 3 children dead at Mo. campground

Thu, 2024-11-28 06:44
BOURBON, Mo. (AP) -- Authorities are investigating the deaths of four people at a campground and resort in Missouri....
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