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In this Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013 photograph, cattle feed on a farm near Big Springs, Kan. Years of drought are reshaping the U.S. beef industry with feedlots and a major meatpacking plant closing because there are too few cattle left in the United States to support them. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)
Feedlots, meatpackers closing with fewer US cows
WICHITA, Kan. — Years of drought are reshaping the U.S. beef industry with feedlots and a major meatpacking plant closing because there are too few cattle left in the United States to support them....
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Associated Press The parents of Trayvon Martin, Sybrina Fulton (right) and Tracy Martin, hold hands as they watch a news conference April 11 in Washington with special prosecutor Angela Corey announcing charges against George Zimmerman. The central Florida suburb of Sanford, Fla.,is getting back to normal a year after Zimmerman shot and killed Martin in a gated community.
A year after boy’s death, Sanford is healing
SANFORD, Fla. — One year after the shooting of Trayvon Martin thrust this small central Florida city into the national spotlight, life in Sanford is returning to its regular rhythm. After the de...
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McMorrow served as first woman Illinois chief justice
CHICAGO — On the day she was sworn in as the first female chief justice of the Illinois Supreme Court, Mary Ann McMorrow acknowledged her pioneering achievement with the same grace and good humor h...
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FILE - In this Jan. 30, 2013 file photo Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texa,s points to a life size photo of a Remington 750, a popular hunting rifle, to make a point about the proposed ban on certain kinds of guns during a Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. Weeks into his job, Texas Republicans are cheering Cruz's indelicate debut and embracing him as one of their own. The insurgent Republican elected with the tea party's blessing and bankroll, has run afoul of GOP mainstays, prompted Democrats to compare his style to McCarthyism. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
Cruz’s tactics go against mainstream, impress Texas
HOUSTON — Ted Cruz glanced at his black cowboy boots, beneath a silver Texas belt buckle, waiting for the admirers to stop clapping. His arrival had turned a drop-by at a Houston lumber yard int...
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Associated Press The Troy, Ohio, home of an adoptive father who police say has admitted raping three boys in his care sits empty last March. The adoptive father will return to court Tuesday in Dayton to hear a judge sentence him for crimes that have all but ensured he will spend the rest of his life in prison.
Rape of adopted Ohio kids unusual, haunting case
Researcher: Teaching kids to speak up combats abuse Sexual abuse of children in the United States has been declining, federal statistics indicate. In 2011, 61,472 cases of sexual abuse of c...
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Associated Press U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (right) visits with the traveling media aboard a plane Sunday en route to London on his inaugural trip as secretary.
US moves to salvage Syrian opposition talks
LONDON — The U.S. is frantically trying to salvage a Syrian opposition conference that John Kerry plans to attend this week during his first official overseas trip as U.S. secretary of state. A ...
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Members of the Nation Of Islam cheer as minister Louis Farrakhan speaks during the Saviours' Day annual convention at the U.I.C. Pavilion in Chicago, Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty)
Farrakhan focuses on economics in Chicago speech
CHICAGO — Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan on Sunday called on blacks nationwide to curb economic disparities by cutting back on excessive spending, pooling resources and investing in land ...
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Researcher: Teaching kids to speak up combats abuse
Sexual abuse of children in the United States has been declining, federal statistics indicate. In 2011, 61,472 cases of sexual abuse of children were reported, nearly 2,000 fewer than the previous ...
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’93 NY bombing taught lessons on extreme threat
NEW YORK — It had to be an accident. Though hard to imagine now, that was the prevailing theory moments after an explosion rocked the World Trade Center around noon on a chilly Feb. 26, 1993. ...
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Associated Press Law enforcement personal investigate the scene of a multi-vehicle accident and shooting Thursday in Las Vegas. Variously known as an adult playground and Disneyland for grownups, Las Vegas has worked to brand itself as a place where tourists can enjoy a sense of edginess with no real danger. But a series of high-profile and seemingly random incidents that have left visitors to the Strip dead or in the hospital is threatening the town's reputation as a padded room of a town where people can cut loose with no fear of consequences.
Vegas still seen as dangerous as crime drops
LAS VEGAS — Variously known as an adult playground and Disneyland for grown-ups, Las Vegas brands itself as a place where tourists can enjoy a sense of edginess with no real danger. But a series...
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