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Woman battles flesh-eating disease after accident
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Doctors say a woman fighting a flesh-decaying bacteria she contracted after a zip line accident will lose her hands and remaining foot to the infection. But Aimee Copeland’s father s...
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Associated Press Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio (left) and one of his attorney's Joseph Popolizio (middle) listen to another attorney, John Masterson, as he holds up a copy of the civil rights lawsuit handed out by the Department of Justice. According to the Department of Justice, after months of negotiations failed to yield an agreement to settle allegations that the sheriff's department racially profiled Latinos in his trademark immigration patrols, the lawsuit was filed.
Lawsuit filed against sheriff
PHOENIX — As defiant as ever, get-tough Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio faces a federal court showdown over charges that deputies on his trademark immigration patrols racially profiled Latinos in violat...
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Assocated Press A bottle of sun tan lotion and sunglasses are left on a cooler at Miami Beach, Fla. A study released this week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says half of adults under 30 say they've had a sunburn at least once in the past year, which could be a sign young people aren't paying much attention to warnings about skin cancer.
What you need to know about sunburns and tanning
THINK TANNING BEDS ARE SAFER? You’d be wrong. The World Health Organization classifies tanning devices as carcinogens, meaning their use can lead to cancer. THINK YOU NEED TO BE BRONZE TO LOO...
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Jury ends day with no verdict in Hudson killings
CHICAGO — Jurors finished a second day of deliberations Thursday without a verdict in the trial of the man charged with murdering Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson’s mother, brother and 7-year-old nephe...
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Associated Press Scores of eager hands reach toward a Congolese official distributing small rations of dried fish and palm oil to people in Miabi, South Kasai, Congo, in 1961. Horst Faas, a prize-winning combat photographer who carved out new standards for covering war with a camera and became one of the world's legendary photojournalists in nearly half a century with The Associated Press, died Thursday at 79.
AP photographer Faas dies at 79
NEW YORK — As chief of photo operations for The Associated Press in Saigon for a decade beginning in 1962, Horst Faas didn’t just cover the fighting. He also recruited and trained new talent fr...
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Jury deliberates in Hudson family killings
Jury deliberates in Hudson family killings CHICAGO — A defense attorney for the man accused of killing relatives of Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson told jurors during heated closing arguments Wed...
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US casinos rallying from recession
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — The nation’s commercial casinos continued their slow-but-steady comeback from the recession last year, with revenues up 3 percent nationwide and jobs holding nearly steady, ac...
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Traffic fatalities on the rise in Tennessee
Traffic fatalities on the rise in Tennessee NASHVILLE, Tenn. — After years of general declines in traffic fatalities, the number of people who died on Tennessee roads jumped this year to inclu...
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Associated Press Shane Martin, general manager of the Human Rights Campaign store, dresses mannequins in VOTE Obama T-shirts on Wednesday in San Francisco. On Wednesday, President Barack Obama announced that he now supports same-sex marriage.
Obama voices support for gay marriage
WASHINGTON — On the fence no longer, President Barack Obama declared his unequivocal support for gay marriage on Wednesday, a historic announcement that gave the polarizing social issue a more prom...
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Saudis emerge as key US ally against terrorists
WASHINGTON — A decade after hijackers mostly from Saudi Arabia attacked the United States with passenger jets, the Saudis have emerged as the principal ally of the U.S. against al-Qaida’s spinoff g...
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