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Associated Press Passengers from the disabled Carnival Lines cruise ship Triumph board charter planes to return home Friday at Louis Armstrong International Airport in Kenner, La. Passengers finally were on the move Friday: some checked into hotels while others hopped on buses or jumped on charter flights home after five numbing days at sea on a cruise liner paralyzed by an engine-room fire.
Passengers became comrades on trip home
MOBILE, Ala. — When their cruise ship lost power, passengers aboard the Carnival Triumph could have been selfish and looked out only for themselves and their loved ones. Instead, they became com...
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‘Underdog’ cartoon co-creator dies at 85
BOSTON — William Watts Biggers, the co-creator of the cartoon “Underdog,” the mild-mannered canine shoeshine boy who turned into a caped superhero to rescue his girlfriend, Sweet Polly Purebred, ha...
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Quick look at Obama’s health care law
The new health care law was devised in Washington, but it’s in the states where everyone will find out if it works. A thumbnail glance at how it’s designed: n The Patient Protection and Affordab...
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Associated Press Patrons gather at the Original OKRA Charity Saloon Jan. 16 in Houston. The new downtown bar is offering its customers a relaxed atmosphere, good drinks and food and a pledge that 100 percent of its profits will be donated to a different local charity or social cause each month.
Bartender, I’ll have another ... for charity
HOUSTON — Call it benevolence through beer, donating via daiquiri or generosity by gin and tonic. A new Houston bar is offering its customers not just a relaxed atmosphere with good drinks and f...
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Penn State: Scandal costs stand in millions
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Penn State’s bill for legal fees, consultants and other costs associated with the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal stands at more than $27.6 million. An updated figure...
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Documents detail Nixon, Clinton ties
YORBA LINDA, Calif. — In the final months of his life, Richard Nixon quietly advised President Bill Clinton on navigating the post-Cold War world, even offering to serve as a conduit for messages t...
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Senate GOP blocks Hagel vote for now
WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans on Thursday blocked the nomination of former GOP senator Chuck Hagel as the nation’s next defense secretary over unrelated questions about President Barack Obama’s a...
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Associated Press Joaquin "El Chapo'' Guzman, a drug kingpin in Mexico, is labeled Chicago's Public Enemy No. 1. during a news conference Thursday in Chicago. It is the first time since Prohibition, when the label was created for Al Capone, that anyone else has been designated Public Enemy No. 1.
Cartel kingpin is Chicago’s new Public Enemy No. 1
CHICAGO — A drug kingpin in Mexico who has never set foot in Chicago has been named the city’s new Public Enemy No. 1 — the same notorious label assigned to Al Capone at the height of the Prohibiti...
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Associated Press Perch swim together in 2009 in Sweden. A study show drugs in water could threaten the fish population and upset the delicate dynamics of the marine environment.
Study: Fish in drug-tainted water suffer negative reaction
BOSTON — What happens to fish that swim in waters tainted by traces of drugs that people take? When it’s an anti-anxiety drug, they become hyper, anti-social and aggressive, a study found. They eve...
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Associated Press The sun sets as the cruise ship Carnival Triumph is towed into Mobile Bay Thursday near Dauphin Island, Ala. The ship with more than 4,200 passengers and crew members has been idled for nearly a week in the Gulf of Mexico following an engine room fire.
Cruise ship slowly heads to land
MOBILE, Ala. — This is not at all how it looked in the brochure: Pulled by a tugboat at a maddeningly slow pace, the cruise ship Carnival Triumph finally drew nearer to port Thursday as miserable p...
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