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Report: Assaults increase on rangers, police in public parks
WASHINGTON — Park rangers, wildlife refuge workers and U.S. Park Police experienced more assaults and threats from visitors last year than in 2011, according to a group that represents federal reso...
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Shootings show troubled side of Calif. beach city
SANTA MONICA, Calif. — For decades there have been two Santa Monicas. There’s the hip beachfront town packed year-round with tourists who cram its trendy bars and restaurants, stay at its pricey...
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Associated Press Dr. Frank Wright, a forensic dentist, studies evidence in a bite mark analysis March 28. He practices on a regular basis in between seeing patients at his office and conducting research on different ways of photographing bite marks.
Officials deride bites as unreliable
At least 24 men convicted or charged with murder or rape based on bite marks on the flesh of victims have been exonerated since 2000, many after spending more than a decade in prison. Now a judge’s...
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Associated Press Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron speaks at the G8 UK Innovation Conference at the Siemens Crystal Building on Friday in London. Cameron will serve as host of the Group of Eight summit, which begins today.
G8 faces uncertain recoveries
ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland — Europe is mired in debt and recession. Financial markets have hit violent ups and downs on fears that U.S. stimulus efforts may soon be scaled back. Japan is finally...
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Several men wrongly convicted or arrested with bite evidence
Many of the 24 men convicted or arrested based largely on murky bite-mark evidence spent more than a decade in prison, and one man was behind bars for more than 23 years before he was exonerated. O...
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Associated Press President Barack Obama answers questions at a White House news conference April 30 in Washington, where he strongly suggested he'd consider military action against Syria if it could be confirmed that President Bashar Assad's government used chemical weapons.
Iraq no-fly zone viewed as symbol for one in Syria
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration, trying to avoid getting drawn deeper into Syria’s civil war, has pointed to the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 as a symbol of what can go wrong when Americ...
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Arkansas Sen. Pryor hit from right, left before 2014
LITTLE ROCK — The conservative Club for Growth tags Democratic Sen. Mark Pryor as President Barack Obama’s “closest ally” in the state. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s gun-control advocacy group...
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Shock lingers after Nazi unit leader found in US
MINNEAPOLIS — The revelation that a former commander of a Nazi SS-led military unit has lived quietly in Minneapolis for the past six decades came as a shock to those who know 94-year-old Michael K...
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Investing in an uncertain market can be scary
NEW YORK — The investment landscape can be a scary place. This year’s stock market surge has stalled and the market is too choppy to provide any sort of reassurance. Savings accounts earn practi...
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Associated Press An undated screenshot provided by Microsoft shows Microsoft's Office software package iPhone application, which offers the ability to read and edit text documents, spreadsheets and slide presentations on a phone. The company isn't making an iPad version.
Microsoft brings Office to iPhone, but not tablets
NEW YORK — Even as a pared-down version of Microsoft's Office software package arrived on the iPhone, the company is holding out on extending that to the iPad and Android devices as it tries to boo...
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