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Coast Guard: Cause of cruise ship fire was leak
ATLANTA — A leak in a fuel oil return line caused the engine-room fire that disabled a Carnival cruise ship at sea, leaving 4,200 people without power or working toilets for five days, a Coast Guar...
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Associated Press Los Angeles Lakers owner Jerry Buss (third from right) looks toward Magic Johnson (third from left) during a ceremony of the Magic Johnson Foundation in 2011 in Los Angeles. Buss, the Lakers' playboy owner who shepherded the NBA franchise to 10 championships, has died at 80.
Lakers’ owner Buss dies at 80
Jerry Buss built a glittering life at the intersection of sports and Hollywood. After growing up in poverty in Wyoming, he earned success in academia, aerospace and real estate before discoverin...
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Associated Press Diane Gomes, of Johnston, R.I. (left), and Elaine Grant, of Lincoln, R.I., help display artist's renderings of a planned permanent memorial for victims of The Station nightclub fire during ceremonies at the site of the fire Sunday in West Warwick, R.I. The 2003 blaze, which broke out when pyrotechnics for the rock band Great White ignited flammable packing foam that had been installed inside the club as soundproofing, took the lives of 100 people.
Victims remembered with park
WEST WARWICK, R.I. — Survivors of a 2003 nightclub fire that killed 100 people and relatives of those killed huddled together in bitter cold Sunday at the site of the blaze to mark the 10th anniver...
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FILE - In this June 5, 2008 file photo, country music artist Mindy McCready performs at the CMA Music Festival in Nashville, Tenn. McCready, who hit the top of the country charts before personal problems sidetracked her career, died Sunday, Feb. 17, 2013. She was 37. (AP Photo/Bill Waugh, File)
Mindy McCready dies in apparent suicide
HEBER SPRINGS — Mindy McCready, who hit the top of the country charts before personal problems sidetracked her career, died Sunday in Arkansas in an apparent suicide. She was 37. The Cleburne Co...
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Associated Press Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. (left), and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., confer at the start of a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the appointment of Chuck Hagel to be the next secretary of defense at Capitol Hill on Thursday in Washington. On a talk show Sunday, when asked he if he supported the Hagel nomination, McCain said, "No, I don't believe he's qualified. But I don't believe that we should hold up his nomination any further, because I think it's (been) a reasonable amount to time to have questions answered."
McCain: Let Hagel vote go on through
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s pick to be defense secretary is unsuited to head the Pentagon, but Republican senators should stop stalling the nomination and allow a vote on Chuck Hagel, a l...
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In this Jan. 26, 2013, photo, guns are displayed on a table on display during the annual New York State Arms Collectors Association Albany Gun Show at the Empire State Plaza Convention Center, in Albany, N.Y. Car dealerships, political parties, hockey teams and, police chiefs see gun giveaways as a way to make money or draw in customers, even after the mass school shooting in Connecticut in December fueled anew the debate over gun buying restrictions. (AP Photo/Philip Kamrass)
Business raffles stoke gun debate
CONCORD, N.H. — Police chiefs in New Hampshire wanted more money for their youth training program. A youth hockey team in North Dakota needed more ice time. Both saw giving away guns as the answ...
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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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