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The Connecticut Senate voted 20-16 early Thursday morning on a bill that would do away with the death penalty and make the state the fifth in five years to abolish capital punishment.

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- Nursing student Ahmad Sayeed was sitting in his class at tiny Oikos University when a gunman burst through the back entrance of the lecture hall and held a terrified school receptionist hostage....

Hundreds of homes are still without electricity a day and a half after gales and ice brought down power lines.

Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky will be in a Pennsylvania courtroom Thursday as his lawyers argue that child sex abuse charges against him be dismissed.

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) -- A Marine facing dismissal for running a Facebook page criticizing the Obama administration is now backed by a team of lawyers and federal congressmen as he fights to stay in the military and test its age-old policy of limiting the free speech of service members....

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) -- A Marine facing dismissal for running a Facebook page criticizing the Obama administration is now backed by a team of lawyers and federal congressmen as he fights to stay in the military and test its age-old policy of limiting the free speech of service members....

Four London mayoral candidates publish their tax records, following a row over their earnings.

JERUSALEM (AP) -- A rocket hit the southern Israeli resort city of Eilat near the Egyptian and Jordanian borders Thursday, Israeli police said. Rocket launches are rare in this part of Israel and police suspect that it came from Egypt's Sinai Peninsula....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- It will take more than the flip of a switch to replace power lost from the troubled San Onofre nuclear plant....

DENVER (AP) -- The Colorado State Forest Service conducted a 50-acre prescribed burn on March 22, part of a normal plan to consume fuel in the rugged, pine-filled foothills southwest of Denver. It wasn't far from site of the monstrous Hayman Fire 10 years ago, and this burn was a precaution....

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Floyd "Creeky" Creekmore is one of the quieter acts in the circus, his larger-than-life clown shoes shuffling methodically as he works the crowd, igniting surprised giggles and slack-jawed wonder from children that look up to encounter Creekmore's wrinkled eyes smiling through thick makeup....

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Floyd "Creeky" Creekmore is one of the quieter acts in the circus, his larger-than-life clown shoes shuffling methodically as he works the crowd, igniting surprised giggles and slack-jawed wonder from children that look up to encounter Creekmore's wrinkled eyes smiling through thick makeup....

The Justice Department is preparing to sue Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, saying talks between the two sides in a discrimination settlement have fallen through.

LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Some people think the government can't get it right even when it's doing wrong....

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) -- The West Virginia coal mine where an explosion killed 29 men two years ago Thursday will be permanently sealed with concrete, the mine's new owner said....

Thousands of residents in parts of north Wales suffer power cuts after heavy snow and bad weather, with 700 homes still without electricity.

Salvage experts say they do not believe a cargo ship which ran aground off north Wales will cause significant harm to the environment.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Don't expect Mitt Romney to spend a lot of time trying to get voters to like him this fall....

TOKYO (AP) -- As the U.S. and its allies decry North Korea's planned rocket launch, they're also rushing to capitalize on the rare opportunity it presents to assess the secretive nation's ability to strike beyond its shores....

DERA ISMAIL KHAN (AP) -- Taliban militants beheaded two Pakistani soldiers and hung their heads from wooden poles in a town in the country's northwest on Monday, a day after they killed nine soldiers in an ambush there, officials said....