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Ohio executes man who killed infant
LUCASVILLE, Ohio — One family wept loudly and another family cheered Wednesday as a man was executed for killing a 6-month-old as he raped her. Steve Smith, 46, was executed by lethal injection ...
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Woman disfigured in attack reveals post-surgery face
BOSTON — A Vermont woman revealed her new face Wednesday, six years after her ex-husband disfigured her by dousing her with industrial-strength lye, and said she went through “what some may call he...
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Associated Press A cross marks a grave at the Wounded Knee National Historic landmark in South Dakota in February 2012. Wednesday was the final day a landowner had given the Oglala Sioux Tribe to make an offer to buy a portion of the Wounded Knee National Historic Landmark.
Tribe faces ultimatum on sale of historic site
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — A small patch of prairie sits largely unnoticed off a desolate road in southwestern South Dakota, tucked amid gently rolling hills and surrounded by dilapidated structures and h...
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Study: Food, skin allergies increasing in children
NEW YORK — Parents are reporting more skin and food allergies in their children, a big government survey found. Analysts aren’t sure what’s behind the increase. Could it be that children are gro...
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Associated Press Cameramen wait outside the Moakley Federal Courthouse in Boston on Wednesday. Three suspects were taken into custody in the bombing case, including two college friends of Dzhokhar Tsarneav, according to officials.
FBI: 3 removed backpack from suspect’s room
BOSTON — Three college friends of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were arrested and accused Wednesday of trying to protect him by going into his dorm room and getting rid of a bac...
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Associated Press U.S. astronaut Karen Nyberg (left), Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin (center) and European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano rejoice before their final preflight practical examination at the Russian Space Training Center outside Moscow on Tuesday. The three are scheduled to travel to the International Space Station from Baikonur Cosmodrom on May 29. NASA is paying $424 million more to Russia to get U.S. astronauts into space, and the agency's leader is blaming Congress for the extra expense.
Russia charging NASA for ride
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA is paying $424 million more to Russia to get U.S. astronauts into space, and the agency’s leader is blaming Congress for the extra expense. NASA announced its latest ...
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Associated Press Bashar Ja'afari (center) Syria's U.N. ambassador, speaks during a news conference, on Tuesday at United Nations headquarters. Ja'afari says the use of chemical weapons is not only "a red line" but "a blood line" that cannot be tolerated and is again demanding a U.N. investigation of an alleged chemical weapons attack in Aleppo that it blames on rebels.
Obama hints at potential military action
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama signaled Tuesday he would consider U.S. military action against Syria if “hard, effective evidence” is found to bolster intelligence that chemical weapons have b...
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Laying bare your finances to apply for health care
WASHINGTON — After a storm of complaints, the Obama administration on Tuesday unveiled simplified forms to apply for insurance under the president’s new health care law. You won’t have to lay bare ...
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Obama offers Republicans compliments
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama needled a GOP senator Tuesday, then praised Republicans working to solve the immigration riddle. He pledged to re-engage with Congress to close the U.S. dete...
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Horse slaughter plant to open in New Mexico
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The southern New Mexico plant that has been fighting for more than a year for permission to slaughter horses will open soon, unless Congress reinstates a ban on the practice, Ag...
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