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Many Long Island residents still wait for power
HICKSVILLE, N.Y. (AP) - Two weeks after Superstorm Sandy, while most utilities have restored electricity to nearly all their customers, there was one glaring exception Monday: a Long Island power...
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Ex-President George H.W. Bush hospitalized in Houston
HOUSTON (AP) -- Former President George H.W. Bush was in a Houston hospital Thursday for treatment of a lingering cough. Bush, 88, has been in and out of the hospital recently for complications...
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UPDATE: Confusion on shooting suspect's name
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The suspect in the Connecticut school shootings is Adam Lanza, 20, the son of a teacher at the school where the shootings occurred, a law enforcement official said Friday. A second...
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Update: Police - 27 killed at CT school; 1 other dead
NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) - A gunman opened fire inside a Connecticut elementary school, killing 26 people, including 20 children, by blasting his way through the building as young students cowered...
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Routine morning, then shots and unspeakable terror
NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) - First, he killed his mother. Nancy Lanza's body was found later at their home on Yogananda Street in Newtown - after the carnage at Sandy Hook Elementary School; after a quiet New...
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Staffers hailed as heroes after Conn. shooting
NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) - A worker who turned on the intercom, alerting others in the building that something was very wrong. A custodian who risked his life by running through the halls warning of danger....
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Shooting renews argument over video-game violence
WASHINGTON (AP) - In the days since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., a shell-shocked nation has looked for reasons. The list of culprits include easy access to guns, a...
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Father welcomes imprisoned Marine vet home
Yvette Vela/The Brownsville HeraldThe Brownsville Herald - Jonny Hammar came home for Christmas. Hopes were high through Friday as news spread that jailed U.S. Marine veteran Jon "Jonny" Hammar,...
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Killer of firemen illegally armed with Bushmaster rifle
This 2006 image provided by the Monroe County Sheriff's Department shows William H. Spengler Jr. (AP Photo/Monroe County Sheriff's Department ) USA Today - The ex-convict who lured firefighters to his...
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Officials quibble as Obama's hometown approaches 500th shooting victim in 2012
Chicago Tribune - Gave Bates smiled through tears as she swiped her hand across her phone, flipping through pictures of her cousin playing around and striking goofy poses. "He was a lot of fun, very...
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In Chicago, killings and questions on the rise
Chicago Tribune - The rising homicide toll, 500 as of Friday, a 17 percent increase in slayings over last year -- has been a looming shadow over Chicago, plaguing residents and the city's leadership...
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15 shot, 3 fatally, on New Year's Day in Chicago
Chicago Tribune - Two teenagers were shot and seriously wounded this afternoon in the Humboldt Park neighborhood, among at least 15 people shot since midnight Monday, three of them fatally, authorities...
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USA Today - Remember that wave of optimism and good feeling that typically greets a presidential inauguration, not to mention a new year? This time, it's hard to find. Battered by an economy that is...
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Political correctness overcomes common sense at Belleville, IL Denny's
BELLEVILLE - Police Chief William Clay has banned all on-duty police officers from eating at Denny's Restaurant on South Illinois Street after a detective was asked to remove her gun or leave the...
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Newtown residents ponder future of school building
(AP Photo/Michelle McLoughlin, Pool)USA Today - Thirty days after their town was scarred by tragedy, Newtown residents gathered Sunday to discuss what to do with Sandy Hook Elementary School, where 20...
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Nation honors MLK Jr. on day of Obama inauguration
ATLANTA (AP) - The nation was honoring civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday - the same day it celebrated the inauguration of the first black president to his second term. A quirk in the...
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Veteran charged with shooting Navy SEAL had been in mental hospital
FORT WORTH, Texas - The Iraq War veteran charged with gunning down two men on a Texas shooting range - including a highly decorated former Navy SEAL sniper - had been taken to a mental hospital twice...
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Small Ala. town relieved that child hostage is safe
MIDLAND CITY, Ala. - For six anguished days, people in this small Alabama town asked just one question about the 5-year-old boy being held hostage in an underground bunker by a menacing, unpredictable...
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Crowded airplanes and screaming children
A 60-year-old man accused of slapping a crying toddler on a Delta flight earlier this month has put a spotlight on one of the most tension-filled aspects of flying -- how irritable passengers on a...
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Horrifying crash at Daytona exposes risks to fans
Fans can wind up in the danger zone, too. A horrifying crash on the last lap of a race at Daytona International Speedway injured at least 30 fans Saturday and provided another stark reminder of what...
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