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FBI searches apartment in ricin letter case
SPOKANE, Wash. — Authorities in hazardous materials suits searched a downtown Spokane apartment Saturday, investigating the recent discovery of a pair of letters containing the deadly poison ricin....
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Associated Press A billboard annouces the $600 million dollar prize in the Powerball lottery on Saturday in Dallas. Powerball officials said the jackpot has climbed to an estimated $600 million, making it the largest prize in the game's history and the world's second largest lottery prize.
Last-minute fortune seekers buy Powerball
DES MOINES, Iowa — It’s all about the odds. With the majority of possible combinations of Powerball numbers in play, someone is almost sure to win the game’s highest jackpot during Saturday nigh...
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IRS probe ignored influential groups
WASHINGTON — There’s an irony in the Internal Revenue Service’s crackdown on conservative groups. The nation’s tax agency has admitted to inappropriately scrutinizing smaller tea party organizat...
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Associated Press James Grissom, who was convicted in 2003 and sentenced 15 years in prison for the rape of Sara Ylen, looks out a window on May 9 in Southgate, Mich. Ylne, who said she was battling cancer, is now charged with fraud, false pretenses and using a computer to commit a crime after state police found no doctor who diagnosed her cancer.
Cancer fraud case bowls over community
LEXINGTON, Mich. — Carol Connell remembers well the gift she gave Sara Ylen, a friend seemingly forced to bear too much misery. Ylen, a Michigan mother of two young boys, said she was battling canc...
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Associated Press Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel (left), accompanied by Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey, gestures as he speaks during a news conference Friday at the Pentagon to discuss sexual assaults in the military.
Hagel orders review of abuse
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Friday ordered the military to recertify all 25,000 people involved in programs designed to prevent and respond to sexual assault, an acknowledgement t...
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Associated Press Thomas Saenz stands near the tarmac at Kabul International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. Finals week can be grueling for many college students but for Saenz it was also treacherous: The Navy commander -- who was getting his master's degree while fighting in Afghanistan -- needed armed guards and an armored car to get to his exam site in Kabul. His class graudates Friday.
Pilot works on master’s in Kabul combat zone
SAN DIEGO — Finals week was dangerous for Thomas Saenz. The Navy lieutenant needed armed guards and an armored car to get to an exam site, in Kabul, Afghanistan. A deadly bomb attack also ca...
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Associated Press Caleb 'Kai' Lawrence McGillvary, 24, is being sought by New Jersey authorities on a murder warrant in the beating death of a New Jersey lawyer he befriended in New York's Times Square. The homeless hitchhiker had previously gained Internet and TV celebrity status by using a hatchet to intervene in an attack in California on a utility worker on Feb.
Hatchet hitchhiker suspect arrested after coffee run
ELIZABETH, N.J. — Two cups of coffee ended life on the run for an Internet sensation known as Kai the hatchet-wielding hitchhiker. An employee at a Starbucks in Philadelphia is credited with rec...
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On jobs trip, Obama tries to leave problems behind
BALTIMORE — President Barack Obama tried on Friday to leave behind the political battles that have overshadowed his second-term agenda, saying lawmakers should work on creating more middle-class jo...
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Associated Press House Ways and Means Committee member Rep. Pat Tiberi, R-Ohio (left), waves a constituent's application to the IRS that was delayed on Friday in Washington, during the committee's hearing on the extra scrutiny the Internal Revenue Service gave conservative groups that applied for tax-exempt status. From left are Tiberi; Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif.; Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis.; Rep. Kevin Brady, R-Texas; and Committee Chairman Rep. Dave Camp, R-Mich.
Treasury officials told of IRS probe in 2012
WASHINGTON — Senior Treasury officials were made aware in June 2012 that investigators were looking into complaints from tea party groups that they were being harassed by the Internal Revenue Servi...
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OJ’s ex-lawyer contradicts testimony
LAS VEGAS — O.J. Simpson’s former lawyer defended himself point-by-point Friday against allegations he botched the former football star’s armed-robbery trial, and he testified Simpson actually knew...
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