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Associated Press A shrimp boat is used to collect oil with booms in 2010 in the waters of Chandeleur Sound, La. The U.S. Justice Department and the five Gulf Coast states most affected by a massive 2010 oil spill have all indicated they would like to reach a settlement on civil claims against BP PLC that would avoid a trial scheduled to start next week.
BP civil settlement stays elusive as spill trial nears
NEW ORLEANS — The U.S. Justice Department and the five Gulf coast states affected by a massive oil spill nearly three years ago have indicated they would like to settle their environmental and econ...
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Associated Press Two men look at the rubble of JJ's restaurant Wednesday after an explosion and fire tore through the establishment Tuesday evening near the Country Club Plaza in Kansas City, Mo. Hours before the blast, witnesses reported the smell of gas.
Gas leak reported before blast leveled restaurant
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A day after a natural gas explosion leveled a popular restaurant, investigators raced to search the rubble and tried to understand how the blast happened despite suspicions that ...
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Pentagon notifies Congress of likely furloughs
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told Congress on Wednesday that if automatic government spending cuts kick in on March 1 he may have to shorten the workweek for the “vast majority” of t...
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Official: California gunman was loner, ‘gamer’
TUSTIN, Calif. — The first of three people killed in a gunman’s rampage was identified Wednesday as a 20-year-old woman but police did not know why she was in the home of the shooter, who lived wi...
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Agency checks water after body found in hotel tank that supplies taps
LOS ANGELES — British tourist Michael Baugh and his wife said water had only dribbled out of the taps at the downtown Cecil Hotel for days. On Tuesday, after showering, brushing their teeth and ...
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Associated Press A graffiti-marked abandoned home stands Oct. 24 north of downtown Detroit. A state-appointed review team determined Detroit is in a financial emergency, paving the way for Republican Gov. Rick Snyder to appoint an emergency manager who would need to come up with a new plan to get the city out of its fiscal crisis.
Analysts remain split on options for Detroit’s financial recovery
DETROIT — In less than a month, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder will decide whether the state will take over Detroit’s broken finances and send in someone to oversee the city’s fiscal recovery. Regard...
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Physicist, Nobel prize winner dies
ITHACA, N.Y. — Robert C. Richardson, a Cornell University professor who shared a Nobel Prize for a key discovery in experimental physics, has died. He was 75. Richardson died Tuesday in Ithaca f...
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White House reveals anti-theft trade strategy
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration announced new efforts Wednesday to fight the growing theft of American trade secrets, a broad but relatively restrained response to a rapidly emerging global p...
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Shootings across county leave 4 dead
TUSTIN, Calif. — A violent rampage that left four dead in suburban Orange County began in the pre-dawn hours Tuesday when a 20-year-old killed a woman in his home and sped away in his parents’ car,...
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Grief still smolders years after club fire
WEST WARWICK, R.I. — Along a busy commercial road here sits a 10-year-old scar that hasn’t healed. Next to a crumbling parking lot, rusty folding chairs sit amid dozens of handmade crosses decorate...
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