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Student Deloris Rainey, left, works with teacher Erin Pustulka, right, in a GED preparation class in Buffalo, N.Y., Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013. Adults who've begun working toward their GED are being urged to finish up this year, before the test for a high school equivalency diploma changes and they have to start all over. (AP Photo/David Duprey)
Students urged to finish GED before in 2014
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Adults who’ve begun working toward their GED are being urged to finish up this year, before the test for a high school equivalency diploma changes and they have to start all over. ...
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FILE - In this Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks about immigration at Del Sol High School in Las Vegas. The White House is circulating a draft immigration bill that would create a new visa for illegal immigrants living in the United States and allow them to become legal permanent residents within eight years, according to a report published online Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013 by USA Today. President Barack Obama's bill would create a "Lawful Prospective Immigrant" visa for the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants living in the United States.(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
White House calls draft immigration plan a backup
WASHINGTON — Republicans and Democrats alike on Sunday predicted President Barack Obama would fail if he pushed forward with his own effort to overhaul the nation’s immigration system and urged the...
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Associated Press Snow covers the grounds of the Mater Ecclesiae College on Friday in Greenville, R.I. The facility previously was home to Gabrielle Mee, who bequeathd $60 million to the Legion of Christ, a secretive and now-disgraced Roman Catholic order.
Relatives worried about widow
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The disgraced Roman Catholic religious order the Legion of Christ bent its own rules for a wealthy elderly woman while it also isolated her from some relatives, according to newl...
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Associated Press The Ruger Mini-14 is displayed by the FBI and was the gun used by one of the shooters in an April 11, 1986, bank robbery shootout in Miami that left two FBI agents dead and five others injured. New models of this firearm that have folding stocks and pistol grips would be banned under proposed gun control legislation under consideration in Congress.
Latest gun ban would protect more than 2,200 firearms
WASHINGTON — Congress’ latest crack at a new assault weapons ban would protect more than 2,200 specific firearms, including a semi-automatic rifle that is nearly identical to one of the guns used i...
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Analysts rate chance US provides next pope
NEW YORK — Conventional wisdom holds that no one from the United States could be elected pope, that the superpower has more than enough worldly influence without an American in the seat of St. Pete...
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Associated Press U.S. Rep. Joseph Kennedy III, D-Mass., greets people in the lounge of the Seven Hills Foundation's new facility Monday in Milford, Mass. Kennedy is the grandson of former Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. President John F. Kennedy was his great-uncle.
Congressman edges Kennedy name back into politics
WASHINGTON — He glances down the hallway to his left, takes three steps to the right and, with a smile, spins back left. It’s another wrong turn for Rep. Joe Kennedy III, D-Mass., who was raised...
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Jack Eskridge, designer of Cowboys’ logo, dies
DALLAS — The man credited with designing the famed blue star logo of the Dallas Cowboys has died. The Cowboys say Jack Eskridge died Monday at a Valley Falls, Kan., hospital. The funeral for the 89...
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Life on run ends for police killer
BIG BEAR LAKE, Calif. — As soon as he heard officers were chasing the suspected cop killer in a stolen truck, San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Deputy Roger Loftis was certain: His buddy Jeremiah Mac...
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Associated Press President Barack Obama greets supporters after arriving at West Palm Beach International Airport on Friday in West Palm Beach, Fla. President Obama is spending the weekend in Palm City, Fla.
Obama plans outings for Florida weekend
PALM CITY, Fla. — Faced with a long weekend in an empty White House, President Barack Obama figured he needed a getaway, too, so he put together a golf outing with some buddies. Not at Joint Bas...
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Associated Press Crew members watch the activity on the dock after the Carnival Triumph was towed to the cruise terminal Thursday in Mobile, Ala. In the case of Carnival Cruise Lines, the owner of the Carnival Triumph, which spent days in the Gulf of Mexico disabled after an engine fire, vacationers looking up information about the ship before boarding would have found mostly clean marks and few red flags.
No central agency inspects cruise ships
MIAMI — A byzantine maze of maritime rules and regulations, fragmented oversight and a patchwork quilt of nations that do business with cruise lines make it tough for consumers to assess the health...
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