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Associated Press Medical workers aid an injured woman April 15 at the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon following two explosions there. One week after the bombings, all of the more than 180 people injured in the blasts who made it to a hospital alive now seem likely to survive. The remarkable, universal survival of those injured is a testimonial to fast care at the scene, on the way to hospitals, then in emergency and operating rooms.
Doctors: Bomb patients likely to live
BOSTON — In a glimmer of good news after last week’s tragedy, all of the more than 180 people injured in the Boston Marathon blasts who made it to a hospital alive now seem likely to survive. Th...
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Supporters: Don’t link immigration bill to Boston
WASHINGTON — Democratic supporters of a new immigration bill accused opponents Monday of trying to “exploit” the Boston Marathon bombings to hold up the legislation, sparking a testy exchange at a ...
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Former chairman of tribe dies
SELLS, Ariz. — The former chairman of the Tohono O’odham Nation has died. Officials with the southern Arizona tribe on Friday announced the death of Augustine B. Lopez Sr. Lopez’s age and cau...
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Associated Press An emergency responder and volunteers, including Carlos Arredondo, in the cowboy hat, push Jeff Bauman in a wheelchair after he was injured in one of two explosions near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. Since last Monday, Boston has experienced five days of fear, beginning with the marathon bombing attack, an intense manhunt and much uncertainty ending in the death of one suspect and the capture of the other.
Five days of fear: What happened in Boston
BOSTON — In the tight rows of chairs stretched across the Commonwealth Ballroom, the nervousness — already dialed high by two bombs, three deaths and more than 72 hours without answers — ratcheted ...
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Police: Bombing suspects planned more attacks
BOSTON — As churches paused to mourn the dead and console the survivors of the Boston Marathon bombing Sunday, the city’s police commissioner said the two suspects had such a large cache of weapons...
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Associated Press Orbital Sciences Corp.'s Antares rocket lifts off from the NASA facility on Wallops Island, Va., Sunday. The rocket will eventually deliver supplies to the International Space Station.
Company tests rocket to aid space station
ATLANTIC, Va. — A company contracted by NASA to deliver supplies to the International Space Station successfully launched a rocket on Sunday in a test of its ability to send a cargo ship aloft. ...
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Associated Press Dejah Reed, a Ypsilanti, Mich., teen was hospitalized for a collapsed lung after trying the cinnamon challenge. A new report from doctors advises against taking the challenge that involves daring someone to swallow a spoonful of ground cinnamon in 60 seconds without water. The fad depicted in wildly popular YouTube videos has led to hospitalizations and a surge in calls to U.S. poison centers.
Doctors: Avoid cinnamon prank
CHICAGO — Don’t take the cinnamon challenge. That’s the advice from doctors in a new report about a dangerous prank depicted in popular YouTube videos but which has led to hospitalizations and a su...
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Associated Press Churchgoers huddle to pray after a service for the First Baptist Church in a field Sunday, four days after an explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas. The church could not meet in their building because it was in a damage zone after a massive explosion at the West Fertilizer Co. Wednesday night that killed 14 people and injured more than 160.
Prayers engulf town rocked by blast
WEST, Texas — The First Baptist Church in the tiny Texas town where a fertilizer plant exploded is still off-limits, so the Rev. John Crowder put folding chairs in a hay pasture and improvised a pu...
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Associated Press Rep. Paul Broun, R-Georgia, announces his plans to run for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Sen. Saxby Chambliss in 2014 in Atlanta. A rare open Senate seat in Georgia promises a scrambled 2014 campaign that already has some Republicans quietly nervous. So far Broun, a conservative physician, is one of two Republicans to announce officially for Chambliss's vacated seat. He once called evolution and the Big Bang Theory "lies straight from the pit of Hell."
Big scramble seen in open Senate seat
ATLANTA — A rare open U.S. Senate seat in Georgia promises a scrambled 2014 campaign that already has some Republicans quietly nervous about retaining it. Democrat Barack Obama lost the state in...
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Associated Press Border Patrol agent Richard Gordon, a 23-year veteran of the agency, examines broken dried branches that indicate human traffic near the border fence where illegal immigrants enter the United States in the Boulevard area east of San Diego in Boulevard, Calif. For the past 16 years, Gordon has been one of the top "sign-cutters" or trackers in the Border Patrol.
Border Patrol now counts getaways
CAMPO, Calif. — Richard Gordon is one of the Border Patrol’s best at spotting the smallest human traces in pursuit of people who enter the U.S. illegally from Mexico: dusty footprints, torn cobwebs...
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