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Top IRS official apologizes for lavish training conference
WASHINGTON — An Internal Revenue Service official whose division staged a lavish $4.1 million training conference and who starred as Mr. Spock in a “Star Trek” parody shown at the 2010 gathering co...
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Tropical Storm Andrea bearing down on Florida coast
MIAMI — The first named storm of the Atlantic season hammered Florida with rain, heavy winds, and tornadoes Thursday as it moved over land toward the coast of Georgia and the Carolinas, promising s...
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Associated Press Karen Sciascia of Red Hill, Pa., holds a baby moose she and fishing guide Seth McLean rescued in the Big Hole River in southwestern Montana on Saturday near Missoula, Mont.
Doctor, guide rescue baby moose from Montana river
MISSOULA, Mont. — A Pennsylvania doctor on a guided fishing trip in southwestern Montana went home with an amazing tale of hauling in a 25-pound lunker — a baby moose she helped rescue from a rushi...
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New York authorities: Self-help couple commits suicide
NEW YORK — On a radio show they hosted called “The Pursuit of Happiness,” John Littig and Lynne Rosen urged listeners to embrace spontaneity. “So much about life is about impulse,” Littig said o...
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Pennsylvania girl placed on donor list; boy sues
PHILADELPHIA — A dying Pennsylvania girl has been placed on the adult waiting list for donated lungs amid a court fight over the nation’s transplant rules with help from a judge who granted another...
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Man tries to slit his wrists outside ‘Today’
NEW YORK — A 76-year-old man yelling that the government was going to take his house slit his wrists outside NBC’s “Today” show Thursday morning before he was taken into police custody, police said...
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Senate defeats Democratic, GOP loan plans
WASHINGTON — College students faced increasing uncertainty about the cost of new student loans after senators failed Thursday to advance partisan proposals to keep interest rates from doubling on J...
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Associated Press A Philadelphia firefighter (center) lays with his hand thrust into an empty area underneath a clothing rack Wednesday under the rubble of a collapsed building on the edge of downtown Philadelphia. The four-story building being demolished collapsed with a thunderous boom Wednesday, raining bricks down on a thrift store.
Building being torn down collapses, killing 1
PHILADELPHIA — A building that was being torn down collapsed with a thunderous boom Wednesday, raining bricks on a neighboring thrift store, killing a woman and injuring at least 13 other people in...
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Associated Press Powerball winner Gloria C. Mackenzie, 84, leaves the lottery office escorted by son Scott Mackenzie (right) after claiming a single lump-sum payment of about $370.9 million before taxes Wednesday in Tallahassee, Fla. Officials say she is the largest sole lottery winner in U.S. history.
Widow, 84, claims jackpot of $590 million
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — An 84-year-old Florida widow who bought her Powerball ticket after another customer let her get ahead in line came forward Wednesday to claim the biggest undivided lottery jackp...
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Churches split on Scouts’ welcoming of gay youth
In suburban Atlanta, northern Idaho and a number of other places, churches have moved swiftly to sever ties with the Boy Scouts of America in protest over the vote last month to let openly gay boys...
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