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Husband goes back to court after 33 years
RALEIGH, N.C. — Jeffrey MacDonald, a clean-cut Green Beret and doctor convicted of killing of his pregnant wife and their two daughters, is getting another chance at trying to prove his innocence —...
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Strong support for campaign spending limits
WASHINGTON — Americans don’t like all the cash that’s going to super political action committees and other outside groups that are pouring millions of dollars into races for president and Congress....
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A cannon sits in front of the Best farm in July outside Frederick, Md., where Gen. Robert E. Lee drafted orders detailing his plans for the September 1862 Confederate invasion of Maryland. A misplaced copy of the document was found near this site by a Union soldier.
Did battle, US future hang on thread of fate?
SHARPSBURG, Md. — From as far away as Minnesota, Colorado and Ohio they came, more than 30 members of the Bloss and Mitchell families who converged on the hallowed Civil War fighting grounds of rur...
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Obama-Romney race tight with 7 weeks to go
WASHINGTON — Middle East violence is shaking up a presidential race that otherwise looks stubbornly stable, and tight. President Barack Obama holds a tiny edge, Republican Mitt Romney is seeking a ...
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AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster President Barack Obama, accompanied by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, speaks during the Transfer of Remains Ceremony on Friday at Andrews Air Force Base, Md.
US rushes spies, drones to Libya
WASHINGTON — The U.S. is sending more spies, Marines and drones to Libya, trying to speed the search for those who killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans, but the investigation is com...
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Thousands of striking teachers rally in Chicago
CHICAGO — Thousands of striking Chicago public school teachers and their allies packed a city park Saturday in a boisterous show of force as union leaders and the district tried to work out the det...
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Most teenaged student writers still not proficient
Students who have access to computers at home and regularly use them for assignments are more likely to be strong writers, a national exam suggests. But it also says just a quarter of America’s eig...
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Kathy Chapman, a childhood friend of Maria Ridulph who was with her just before her disappearance in 1957, talks to the media in Sycamore, Ill., after the guilty verdict of Jack McCullough for the kidnapping and murder of the 7-year-old Ridulph, of Sycamore. The 72-year-old McCullough was convicted in one of the oldest unsolved crimes to eventually get to court in the U.S. (AP Photo/Daily Chronicle, Kyle Bursaw) MANDATORY CREDIT, CHICAGO LOCALS OUT, ROCKFORD OUT
Man convicted in 1957 murder of 7-year-old girl
SYCAMORE, Ill. — For most of five decades, it seemed no one would ever be held accountable for the murder of a 7-year-old Illinois girl snatched off a small-town street corner as she played. Now...
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Associated Press Karen Lewis, president of the Chicago teachers union, departs a news conference after meeting with the union's House of Delegates Friday in Chicago. Lewis told the delegates that a "framework" was in place to end the teachers strike.
Negotiators form ‘framework’ to end strike
CHICAGO — The city’s nearly weeklong teachers strike appeared headed toward a resolution Friday after negotiators emerged from marathon talks to say they had achieved a “framework” that could end t...
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CORRECTS SOURCE TO U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY- In this photo taken by the U.S. Geological Survey and provided by the California Department of Fish and Game, a sea otter holds her pup at Seacliff State Beach near Aptos, Calif., on, Sept. 10, 2012. The sea otter, known as Olive, has amazed researchers by becoming the first sea otter not only to survive a dunking in oil but then also go on to deliver a healthy pup. (AP Photo/U.S. Geological Survey, Joe Tomoleoni)
First California otter to survive oil spill has a pup
SAN FRANCISCO — Just three years after she was found covered in oil and near death, a California sea otter called Olive is a new mom — another milestone for the first otter to survive an oiling in ...
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