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Girl injured in Boston bombings begins rehab
WATERTOWN, Mass. (AP) Police converged early Friday on a neighborhood outside Boston where there were reports of explosives being detonated and police are telling reporters to turn off their ...
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NH woman convicted of child porn gets 40 years
The star witness in the state of Florida's case against a woman accused of killing foster child Rilya Wilson has walked out of state ...
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Investigator Missing Iowa girls blood found
A 15-year-old central Iowa girl who was abducted after getting off her school bus was still missing Tuesday, and authorities said a massive search was underway. Meanwhile, the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation said the man who is suspected of taking her and another girl committed ...
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Foreign Service officer made millions in visa-for-money scam feds charge
WASHINGTON - A State Department official “received several million dollars in bribes” from Vietnamese residents seeking visas, according to newly public court documents. In a previously undisclosed criminal complaint, Foreign Service officer Michael T. Sestak faces charges of conspiracy to commit visa fraud and bribery in an alleged scheme that investigators say spanned several ...
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Feds cut off funding for counter-terrorism efforts in Las Vegas
Congressman Steven Horsford (D-NV), right, takes a tour of the Southern Nevada Counter-Terrorism Center, also known as the Fusion Center, with Jim Owens, left, deputy chief of Metro’s homeland security division, and Capt. Al Salinas, center director, at Metro Police Headquarters Thursday, May 2, 2013. Officials at the center are concerned that budget cuts that might negatively affect its ...
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Former American soccer players talk about big game
Pre-game pep rally at Kiener Plaza NewsChannel 5's Frank Cusumano spoke with ESPN analyst, former St. Louisan and retired American soccer player Taylor Twellman and retired American soccer player Alexi Lalas about the big game. Click the video player above to hear what they had to say. ...
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Boy Scouts of America overturn gay youth ban
The Boy Scouts of America have approved a proposal to end a ban on openly gay scouts that has been in place throughout the organisation's 103-year history, the group said in a statement. The vote by more than 1,400 members of the group's National Council came amid intense lobbying by gay-rights activists and members of conservative organisations. The change does not remove the ...
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IRS official Lerner placed on leave
By Kelly O'Donnell and Michael O'Brien, NBC News Lois Lerner, the IRS official who oversees the agency’s division in charge of tax-exempt organizations, has been placed on administrative leave, a source told NBC News on Thursday. The IRS has selected Ken Corbin as acting director during Lerner's ...
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A white paper on the controversy over homosexuals in the Boy Scouts of America
NARTH offers the following synopsis of scientific research on homosexuality that may be helpful to the national council of the Boy Scouts of America as it deliberates a change in policy that would allow homosexually-identified youth as members.[1] The development of homosexuality is influenced by environment. Homosexuality is not an unchangeable biologically determined trait like ...
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Local lawyer named to corruption fighting Chicago prosecutor job
CHICAGO (Reuters) - President Barack Obama has nominated Chicago attorney Zachary Fardon to be the U.S. prosecutor in Chicago, which has seen the indictments of many top local politicians and mob figures, the two U.S. senators from Illinois announced on ...
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Parents sue Pittsburgh Zoo over toddlers mauling death
PITTSBURGH (Reuters) - The parents of a 2-year-old boy mauled to death by African wild dogs at the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium filed a lawsuit on Thursday accusing the zoo of failing to protect visitors from dangerous ...
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Catholic order to pay $16.5 million to more than 400 claiming sex abuse
NEW YORK (Reuters) - An order of the Roman Catholic Church has agreed to pay $16.5 million to more than 400 adults who said they were sexually abused as children by religious leaders, the parties announced on Thursday in separate ...
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Egyptian-American Pastor Michael Youssef Preaches to 15000 in Largest Muslim Country
Egyptian-American Pastor Michael Youssef, president of Leading the Way global radio ministry, will be preaching at a massive three-day event in the world's largest Muslim country, Indonesia, ...
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Cop Shot in Evil Evan Manhunt Returning
27-year-old Montague County Sheriff's Deputy James Boyd was gunned down during a routine road block on March 21 in Bowie, Texas. After months of recovery, Boyd plans to return to work on Sunday. "I'm ready to go back," Boyd told ABCNews.com today. "I'm kind of nervous about it but I know I can do the job, so I'm ready to go back to it." Boyd was ...
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Caltrans Prepares For Massive Repair Job On Cracked Seismic Bolts
OAKLAND (KCBS) – Caltrans is preparing to test the integrity of seismic sheer bolts on the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge as crews prepare for a massive repair job ...
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Pandora Stock Rises On Strong Earnings Report
Traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange walk wear an insignia for Pandora Media Inc., the online-radio company, on its first day of trading as a public company on June 15, 2011 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty ...
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Man Pleads No Contest To 2010 Murder Of Teen At Millbrae School
REDWOOD CITY (CBS) -A man charged with the stabbing death of a teenager at a Millbrae high school in August 2010 pleaded no contest to the murder in San Mateo County Superior Court on Wednesday, prosecutors said. Laungatasi Ahio, 23, of Millbrae, surrendered the day after 19-year-old Jared Afu was found dead of multiple stab wounds to his face and neck near the tennis courts at Mills High ...
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Boy 12 first to find pirate treasure in New York scavenger hunt
A New York 12-year-old won $10,000 worth of actual pirate treasure in a scavenger hunt organized to promote a Discovery Times Square exhibit. Sebastian Bekkaoui was one of 700 participants to receive the first clue Friday, and he and his mother, Sheila Doherty, 45, followed the clues to city locations where people in pirate garb handed out fresh clues. Bekkaoui and Doherty were the first to ...
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Feds keep Prebles mouse on threatened list
CHEYENNE, Wyo.-The federal government will continue to protect as a threatened species a mouse that lives in Wyoming and Colorado. The state of Wyoming and the group Coloradoans for Water Conservation had long-standing petitions to remove the Preble's meadow jumping mouse from Endangered Species Act protection. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Thursday that following a review, ...
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Yemen welcomes Obama decision on Gitmo transfers
WASHINGTON (AP) — Yemen is welcoming President Barack Obama's decision to lift his ban on the transfer of Yemeni prisoners from the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.In a statement released Thursday shortly after Obama announced the step, the Yemeni Embassy said it appreciated the switch. It said Yemen would work with the U.S. to ensure the safe return of Yemeni detainees ...
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The Fastest-Growing Cities in America
They say everything is bigger in Texas, and the state's cities seem to have taken it to heart. The Census Bureau on Thursday released estimates of the fastest-growing cities in America, and the Lone Star State claims 8 of the 15 cities that posted the fastest population growth from 2011 to ...
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Coffee Leaf Rust Plant Disease Threatens Central American Crops
Zoom in on the Indian Ocean for our Geo Quiz. We’re looking for an island nation. Its neighbors to the southwest are the Maldives. The island we’re in search of offers an interesting example of how plants changed the world. Back when it was under Dutch control, there were valuable cinnamon plantations across the island we want you to name. In the 19th century the economy shifted ...
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Why have North American indexes defied the sell in May strategy
The media remains fascinated with the expression "sell in May and go away." Media expectations are that North American equity markets will move lower from the beginning of May to the end of October.Their fascination has been triggered by weakness in North American equity markets from May to July during the past three years. From its peak in late April to its low in July, the S&P ...
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Weiner gets started stumping in NYC mayoral race
New York City mayoral hopeful Anthony Weiner discusses his policies with a passerby while greeting commuters during a campaign event outside a Harlem subway station, Thursday, May 23, 2013 in New York. Weiner, who ran for mayor in 2005 and nearly did in 2009, is getting into the race to succeed three-term Mayor Michael Bloomberg about two years after a series of tawdry tweets, and obfuscating ...
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Obama lifts ban on Guantanamo transfers to Yemen
WASHINGTON -; President Barack Obama is lifting his self-imposed ban on transferring Guantanamo Bay detainees to Yemen in his renewed effort to close the ...
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Idaho looks to eco-business for eventual recovery
Colorado has been leading the country in developing a sustainable, environmentally-friendly ‘green economy’ using $1 billion in federal grants over the last ten years or so, the efforts have paid off and now it seems that Idaho’s leadership may be looking to do something similar.
Using a $1.25 million federal grant the state of Idaho is investigating the extent of our green economy. Officials from the Idaho Department of Labor are in the process of interviewing around 5000 large and small employers and asking them, basically, how many ‘green’ jobs they’re currently got and what their growth potential is for the coming years. Read more
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