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Storm blows through East Coast; 200,000 in dark in Arkansas
CONCORD, N.H. — A muted version of a winter storm that has killed more than a dozen people across the eastern half of the country plodded across the Northeast on Thursday, trapping airliners in sno...
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Obama returns, Congress bickers on cliff
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama returned to the White House on Thursday from a vacation shortened by government gridlock while Democrats and Republicans snarled across a partisan divide and sho...
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Associated Press Four national retailers agreed to recall more than 150,000 Nap Nanny baby recliners after at least five infant deaths and dozens of reports of children nearly falling out of the recliners, the CPSC said Thursday. The recall covers Nap Nanny Generations One and Two, and the Chill model infant recliners.
Retailers recall baby recliners
WASHINGTON — Four national retailers agreed to recall more than 150,000 Nap Nanny baby recliners after at least five infant deaths and dozens of reports of children nearly falling out of the reclin...
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Woman set on fire as she sleeps on bench
LOS ANGELES — For more than 10 years, the homeless woman slept on the same plastic bus stop bench at a busy intersection in the San Fernando Valley, no matter how cold it was or if it was raining. ...
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EPA Administrator announces resignation
WASHINGTON — EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, the Obama administration’s chief environmental watchdog, is stepping down after nearly four years marked by high-profile brawls over global warming poll...
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Associated Press Former President George H.W. Bush and his wife, Barbara, arrive June 12 for the premiere of HBO's new documentary about his life in Kennebunkport, Maine. On Thursday, Bush's longtime chief of staff said he was getting excellent medical treatment at Methodist Hospital in Houston, where he has been since Nov. 23 for a "stubborn" cough.
Chief of staff: Former President Bush getting excellent treatment
HOUSTON — Former President George H.W. Bush, who has been hospitalized for more than a month, is getting excellent medical treatment and would advise people to “put the harps back in the closet,” h...
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Town trying to give kids sense of normalcy
NEWTOWN, Conn. — The children at the Sandy Hook Elementary school won’t be returning to classes for another week, but officials from the town, school district and local agencies are doing their bes...
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New laws address gays, children, immigration
Measures on gay rights and child safety are among the top state laws taking effect at the start of 2013, along with attempts to prevent identity theft and perennial efforts to restrict abortion and...
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Associated Press The battered and emptied Richard P. Kane Wetland Mitigation Bank, a long barrier wall made of large baskets filled with sand and dirt, runs through the Meadowlands on Dec. 8 in Moonachie, N.J. The barrier was built primarily to control the movement of tidewaters in and out of the wetlands area and not for flood protection.
Sandy-flooded inland towns in New Jersey see no fix
MOONACHIE, N.J. — Images of New Jersey’s devastated shoreline captivated the nation in the days after Superstorm Sandy. Less noticed was the enormous damage caused inland when a mile-and-a-half-...
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Firemen’s killer had mapped out plan for slayings
WEBSTER, N.Y. — The ex-con turned sniper who killed two firefighters wanted to make sure his goodbye note was legible, typing out his desire to “do what I like doing best, killing people” before se...
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