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Lewis founded Hamburger Hamlet
LOS ANGELES — Harry Lewis, founder of the Hamburger Hamlet chain whose regular customers included Ronald Reagan and Elizabeth Taylor, has died at age 93. The Los Angeles Times reports Lewis died...
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Associated Press House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger, D- Md., is followed by reporters Tuesday following a closed all-member briefing on the NSA on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Obama administration declassified a handful of details Tuesday that credited its PRISM Internet spying program with intercepting a key email that unraveled a 2009 terrorist plot in New York.
NYC bomb plot details settle little in NSA debate
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration declassified a handful of details Tuesday that credited its PRISM Internet spying program with intercepting a key email that unraveled a 2009 terrorist plot in...
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Suspect’s paralysis could delay Fort Hood trial
FORT HOOD, Texas — The paralysis-related health problems of the Army psychiatrist charged with carrying out the deadly attack on Fort Hood could significantly slow the pace of his upcoming court-ma...
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Associated Press Vehicles pile up Monday on Interstate 80, three miles west of Winnemucca, Nev. A sandstorm in rural northern Nevada caused the 26-vehicle pileup that killed one person, seriously injured several more, and sapped already-thin emergency resources, officials said.
27-car Nevada sandstorm pileup kills 1
Twenty-seven vehicles slammed into each other during a sandstorm that blinded drivers on Interstate 80 in rural northern Nevada, killing a truck driver, seriously injuring several other people and ...
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Associated Press Myrlie Louise Evers, widow of civil rights activist Medgar Evers, leans down to kiss her late husband's forehead before the casket was opened for public viewing at a funeral home June 13, 1963, in Jackson, Miss. Evers, who was the first Mississippi field director of NAACP, 1954-1963, was shot in front of his home.
Widow works to preserve Evers’ civil rights legacy
JACKSON, Miss. — Myrlie Evers-Williams acknowledges it would be easy to remain mired in bitterness and anger, 50 years after a sniper’s bullet made her a widow. Instead, she’s determined to cele...
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US spy programs raise ire both home, abroad
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration faced fresh anger Monday at home and abroad over U.S. spy programs that track phone and Internet messages around the world in the hope of thwarting terrorist t...
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Zimmerman
Jury selection begins in trial
SANFORD, Fla. — On the first day of his trial Monday, George Zimmerman got a look at some of the people who might decide whether he committed second-degree murder when he fatally shot 17-year-old T...
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Dad tragically shot
PRESCOTT VALLEY, Ariz. — A 4-year-old boy who was visiting Prescott Valley with his dad grabbed a loaded handgun from a television stand, asked what it was and pulled the trigger, killing the man i...
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FedEx Rates Raising
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — FedEx Corp. said its freight unit will raise rates by 4.5 percent beginning July 1. The move follows Jan. 7 rate increases in its FedEx Express air shipment business and FedEx G...
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Developers look over new apps being displayed on iPads at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference Monday, June 10, 2013 in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
Apple revamps look of iPhone, iPad software
MICHAEL LIEDTKE PETER SVENSSON AP Technology Writers SAN FRANCISCO — Apple is throwing out most of the real-world graphical cues from its iPhone and iPad software, like the casino-green “felt...
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