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FDA warns of infections tied to pharmacy
WASHINGTON — Health officials are investigating cases involving patients who suffered complications after being injected with potentially contaminated medications made by a Tennessee specialty phar...
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Budget cuts mean unpaid day off for many
WASHINGTON — No one answered the tax-help hotline at the IRS. Forget about getting advice on avoiding foreclosures at any of the Housing and Urban Development offices nationwide. Roughly 5 perce...
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Associated Press Automobiles float under a collapsed section of the Interstate 5 bridge over the Skagit River on Friday in Mount Vernon, Wash. Part of the bridge collapsed Thursday evening, sending cars and people into the water when an oversized truck hit the span, the Washington State Patrol chief said.
Trucker who hit bridge ‘horrified’
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. — The trucker was hauling a load of drilling equipment when his load bumped against the steel framework over an Interstate 5 bridge. He looked in his rearview mirror and watched...
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Obama backs honor for bombing victims
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama signed legislation Friday to award Congress’ highest civilian honor to four girls killed in an Alabama church bombing during the civil rights movement. He called...
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Robinson played for championship Lakers team
LOS ANGELES — Flynn Robinson, the former NBA guard who played on the Los Angeles Lakers’ 1971-72 championship team, has died after a two-year fight with cancer. He was 72. Flynn’s wife, Nancy Pi...
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Judge denies bail for parents in baby’s death
PHILADELPHIA — A Philadelphia judge ordered that a couple who believe in faith healing over medicine be held without bail on third-degree murder charges in the April death of their 8-month-old son....
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Associated Press Jonathan Decker (right) and Charlie Woolsey tear a roof off a tornado-damaged home July 19, 2011, in Joplin, Mo., during cleanup efforts nearly two months after an EF-5 tornado destroyed much of the town. After 161 people died in the tornado, the city strengthened its building codes.
Tornado Alley seeks solutions
In the wind-swept prairie called Tornado Alley, the scene is eerily familiar: Homes smashed to splinters. Trees and telephone poles snapped like twigs. Piles of bricks, overturned cars and dazed su...
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Health care changes worry some unions
WASHINGTON — Some labor unions that enthusiastically backed President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul are now frustrated and angry, fearful that it will jeopardize benefits for millions of thei...
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Associated Press Lois Lerner listens Wednesday on Capitol Hill in Washington. A day after she refused to answer questions at a congressional hearing, Lerner has been replaced as director the Internal Revenue Service division that oversaw agents who targeted tea party groups. Danny Werfel, the agency's new acting commissioner, told IRS employees in an email Thursday that he has selected a new acting head of the division, staying within the IRS to find new leadership.
House lawmakers support variable rate student loans
WASHINGTON — Dismissing a veto threat from President Barack Obama, lawmakers in the House passed legislation that links student loan rates to the ups and downs of the financial markets in a vote la...
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Obama lifts ban on Guantanamo transfers
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is lifting his self-imposed ban on transferring Guantanamo Bay detainees to Yemen, where a leadership upheaval has improved the country’s security but not elimin...
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