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Idaho senator pleads guilty to DWI charge
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — U.S. Sen. Michael Crapo pleaded guilty Friday to a charge of driving while intoxicated and then apologized for his actions and asked forgiveness from his constituents. The Idah...
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Gun shows face new scrutiny after Newtown school shooting
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — Missing from the gun show here next weekend will be some of the most popular guns. Show organizers, facing pressure after last month’s elementary school massacre in Conn...
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Associated Press Vegetables are left over by students on their cafeteria trays in 2012 at the Roosevelt High School in Los Angeles. Americans blame too much screen time and cheap fast-food for fueling the nation's obesity epidemic, but a poll finds that they're split on how the government should help.
Poll: Fight obesity crisis but keep the junk food
WASHINGTON — Everyone could use a little help keeping those New Year’s resolutions to slim down. But if it means the government limiting junk food, the response is an overwhelming, “No.” America...
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Homes for elderly under scrutiny after Sandy
NEW YORK — A nursing home and an assisted living facility are under scrutiny by state officials and an advocacy group after The Associated Press disclosed that hundreds of elderly and disabled peop...
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Associated Press Huge piles of debris still line portions of Route 35, the main highway through the shore, Friday in Toms River, N.J. Congress voted to approve aid for victims of Superstorm Sandy, but many shore residents were angry it had taken lawmakers so long to act following the Oct. 29 storm.
Congress approves $9.7 billion in Sandy flood aid
WASHINGTON — The new Congress on Friday rushed out $9.7 billion to help pay flood insurance claims to 115,000 people and businesses afflicted by Superstorm Sandy, two days after New Jersey’s govern...
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Theater shooting victim’s dad to attend reopening
DENVER — The father of a man killed in the mass shooting at a Colorado movie theater says he will be present at the reopening, even though his daughter-in-law and relatives of some other victims ar...
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Army Corps tamps down barge worries
ST. LOUIS — Efforts taken to keep a crucial stretch of the drought-starved Mississippi River open to barge traffic should be sufficient to avert a shipping shutdown that the industry fears is immin...
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Electoral College count affirms Obama’s win
WASHINGTON — Congress made the obvious official on Friday. President Barack Obama has been re-elected. In a joint session, Congress formally certified that Obama and Vice President Joe Biden wer...
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Associated Press Members of the media document store cashier Tanice Stefanich helping a customer Nov. 29, 2012, at a 4 Sons Food Store where one of the winning tickets in the $579.9 million Powerball jackpot was purchased in Fountain Hills, Ariz. Releasing information on the lottery winners reflects a broader debate playing out in state Legislatures and lottery offices nationwide: Should the winners' names be made public?
Should winners’ names be secret?
PHOENIX — When two winning tickets for a record $588 million Powerball jackpot were claimed from the Nov. 28 drawing, the world focused on the winners. A Missouri couple appeared at a press conf...
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Inmate ordered retried in ’80 ‘waiting ever since’
GATESVILLE, Texas — Jerry Hartfield was still a young man when an uncle visited him in prison to tell him that his murder conviction had been overturned and he would get a new trial. Not long af...
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