June 18, 2013
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Report: Family, medical leave law working
WASHINGTON — Just 16 percent of eligible workers took time off under the Family and Medical Leave Act last year to recover from an illness, care for a new child or tend to a sick relative, accordin...
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Business, labor join on immigration issue
WASHINGTON — Unlikely allies, business and labor leaders joined in support of the White House’s immigration overhaul efforts Tuesday while also launching high-stakes negotiations to overcome an iss...
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Veteran had been in mental hospital
FORT WORTH, Texas — The Iraq War veteran charged with killing a former Navy SEAL sniper and his friend on a Texas shooting range had been taken to a mental hospital twice in the past five months an...
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Associated Press Federal and local law enforcement officers gather at their trucks Monday after the hostage crisis ended in Midland City, Ala. Officials say they stormed a bunker in Alabama to rescue a 5-year-old child being held hostage there after his abductor was seen with a gun.
Authorities storm bunker, rescue boy
MIDLAND CITY, Ala. — Authorities stormed an underground bunker Monday in southeastern Alabama, freeing a 5-year-old boy and leaving his captor dead after a week of fruitless negotiations that left...
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Koch’s coffin exits to ‘New York, New York’
NEW YORK — Ed Koch couldn’t have chosen a more appropriate final farewell to New York City. An organist played “New York, New York,” the iconic ballad made famous by Frank Sinatra, in a Manhatta...
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Senate tries again to move anti-violence bill
WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats, bolstered by Republican support, on Monday launched a new attempt to broaden a law protecting women from domestic abuse by expanding its provisions to cover gays, les...
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Postal Service honors Rosa Parks with new stamp
DEARBORN, Mich. — Hundreds of people, including some of Michigan’s political elite, gathered Monday to celebrate the late Rosa Parks on what would have been her 100th birthday by unveiling a postag...
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Obama stands firm on guns despite odds
MINNEAPOLIS — President Barack Obama declared Monday on his first trip outside Washington to promote gun control that a consensus is emerging for universal background checks for purchasers, though ...
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Associated Press Jake Dimmock, co-owner of the Northwest Patient Resource Center medical marijuana dispensary, works with flowering plants Nov. 7 in a grow room in Seattle. Congressional lawmakers from both parties are working to change U.S. marijuana laws, including altering tax codes to let marijuana dispensaries deduct business expenses on federal taxes, and changing banking laws to make it easier for marijuana-related businesses to get bank accounts.
Effort building to change marijuana laws
SEATTLE — An effort is building in Congress to change U.S. marijuana laws, including moves to legalize the industrial production of hemp and establish a hefty federal pot tax. While passage this...
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Associated Press Friends and family gather to pay respects for Charles 'Chuck' Poland at the Ozark Civic Center on Sunday in Ozark, Ala. Authorities say Jim Lee Dykes, 65; a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War known as Jimmy to neighbors, gunned down Poland a school bus driver and then abducted a 5-year-old boy from the bus, taking him to an underground bunker on his rural property.
Details emerge about man in standoff
MIDLAND CITY, Ala. — As an Alabama standoff and hostage drama marked a sixth day Sunday, more details emerged about the suspect at the center, with neighbors and officials painting a picture of an ...
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