Fla. judges, lawyers must 'unfriend' on Facebook
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Florida's judges and lawyers should no longer "friend" each other on Facebook, the popular social networking site, according to a ruling from the state's Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee. At least one South Florida...
For 1 student, a long path to college degree
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She looked like a good bet to beat the odds, but her first try at college, nearly 20 years ago, came up short. From a tough, low-income neighborhood of Utica, N.Y., Catherine McNamara earned a scholarship to...
NH campaign office hostage-taker back on probation
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A man who took six people hostage at one of Hillary Clinton's New Hampshire campaign offices two years ago is getting another chance at probation. Leeland Eisenberg was released from prison in late November. He was...
Gun laws are getting looser across much of US
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It's been the year of the gun in Tennessee. In a flurry of legislative action, handgun owners won the right to take their weapons onto sports fields and playgrounds and, at least briefly, into bars. A change in...
Immigration sweep nets 280 with criminal records
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Immigration agents arrested 280 people in California in their biggest push yet to round up suspected illegal immigrants with criminal records, authorities said Friday. More than 400 agents and local law enforcement...
Hawaii Dem. says he'll resign from Congress
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U.S. Rep. Neil Abercrombie of Hawaii says he's resigning from Congress. The longtime Democratic congressman, who has been planning to run for governor, said in a statement Friday the decision was a difficult one for...
Colo. man accused of dragging woman by hair at bar
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A white man accused of dragging a black woman out of a Colorado bar by her hair has been charged with a bias-motivated crime. The Summit County district attorney filed assault and bias-motivated crime charges Wednesday...
Under one Danish roof, humanity talks climate
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Once every turn around the sun, inhabitants of our battered blue globe gather by the thousands in an assigned place, for a two-week ritual of despair and hope called a climate conference. It's humanity distilled under...
Lawsuit threatened over atheist councilman in NC
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Asheville City Councilman Cecil Bothwell believes in ending the death penalty, conserving water and reforming government _ but he doesn't believe in God. His political opponents say that's a sin that makes him unworthy...
Soldiers get mass swine flu shots before holidays
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Thousands of Army recruits in training must line up at least once more before heading home for the holidays, this time for mass inoculations by the hundreds against swine flu. The Army's largest training camp, just...
Vegas hospital suspends 6 in ignored patient probe
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Six University Medical Center employees have been suspended while the county investigates claims that a woman was ignored for so long in the emergency room that she went home and gave birth to a premature baby who later...
New Orleans official accused in kickback scheme
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A member of the New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board has been indicted on charges he solicited kickbacks from companies with contracts to inspect damage from Hurricane Katrina. A 33-count indictment handed up Friday by...
Detroit stripper's killing unsolved 6 years later
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Stripper Tamara Greene has found more notoriety in death than she ever did dancing under the name "Strawberry" in dimly lit topless clubs and private parties around Detroit. The attractive, 27-year-old mother of three...
Mass. woman, 98, indicted in roommate's death
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A 98-year-old woman was indicted Friday on a second-degree murder charge that alleges she strangled her 100-year-old roommate in a nursing home. Laura Lundquist was sent to a state mental hospital for a competency...
Wild horses shot to death on range in Nevada
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Investigators are looking into the suspected shooting deaths of a group of wild horses in Nevada and the possibility the case could be linked to heated debate over the future of mustangs in the West. U.S. Bureau of...
Wash. man pleads guilty to raping adoptee
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A man has pleaded guilty in Washington state to raping his 7-year-old adopted daughter from China. Police say the sexual abuse occurred over a four-year period. Fifty-one-year-old Eddy Tony Whisenhunt faces more than...
UC Berkeley students arrested in campus protest
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Police on Friday arrested 65 protesters inside a classroom building that was partially taken over for several days at the University of California, Berkeley. Students occupied areas of Wheeler Hall as part of a...
Path to college degree can be long, winding
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There's no such thing as a typical college student these days. Nearly a third of undergraduate college students are 25 or older. About 70 percent have at least one characteristic that makes them "non-traditional" to...
Casey Anthony sobs at account of daughter's death
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A Florida mother charged with killing her 2-year-old daughter sobbed in court Friday as a prosecutor speculated aloud that the toddler was methodically drugged and suffocated with tape. Casey Anthony cried as...
Officer slain in Wash. remembered at Pa. funeral
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Mark Renninger grew up 250 paces from the Boys & Girls Club of Bethlehem. When he heard the lawn mower start up, he would come running _ and insist on doing the club's lawn himself. Renninger, one of four police...
Student, 18, wounded in shooting at La. school
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Police in the northwestern Louisiana city of Shreveport say a female student was shot on the grounds of a high school and a suspect was arrested. Police say it happened at 8:10 a.m. Friday at Booker T. Washington High...
Police still looking for missing Utah mom
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Police in Utah say about 30 detectives are looking for leads in the search for a 28-year-old mother who hasn't been heard from since last weekend. "It's still missing person case. It's highly suspicious," West Valley...
Parents of Fresno suspect say he's mentally ill
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The parents of a man accused of killing a Fresno delivery truck driver say their son had been held for a psychiatric evaluation just days before the shooting. Police say 27-year-old Joey Lopez fatally shot Richard...
Teen charged with running down nurse in NY
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A 16-year-old boy accused of running down a nurse outside a Syracuse hospital has been charged with assault and reckless driving. Police say Andre Escobar surrendered Friday, two days after a surveillance video of the...
Snow strands dozens of motorists in western NY
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About 100 people spent most of the night in snowbound cars on the New York State Thruway southwest of Buffalo and are finally being freed. Troopers used all-terrain vehicles and snowmobiles to keep in touch with...
Syria hits Israel 'conflict diamond' leadership
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Israel, chosen last month to oversee global efforts to end the trade in "blood diamonds" that stokes guerrilla wars, was put on the spot Friday when Syria asked the U.N. General Assembly to delete any mention of the...
Stolen Seattle totem pole found near Salem, Ore.
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Police say an 18-foot-tall totem pole stolen from a West Seattle park has been found about 200 miles away in Oregon. The Seattle Times reports a 69-year-old West Seattle man led investigators to the pole. Police say he...
Special delivery: UPS driver finds, returns $5,200
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A UPS driver's unscheduled delivery in New Jersey has made one retailer very grateful. John Piontkowski spotted a bank bag in the middle of the road while he was making deliveries in Randolph. Inside, he found $5,200...
Lifelong criminal tries to put prison behind him
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On a rare visit to his childhood home, Eddie Williams is 16 again, peering down a shotgun barrel as he crouches in the kitchen doorway. The intruder then swivels and shoots, and Williams sees his mother, a pastor's...
Missing Yale employee is found near home
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Police say they've found a Yale University employee who was missing for several days. Police say 47-year-old John DiNello was found safe near his home in West Haven at about 6:30 a.m. Friday. Police declined to release...
SC first lady files for divorce from cheating gov
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South Carolina's first lady, a former Wall Street vice president who helped launch her husband's political career, filed for divorce Friday more than five months after his tearful public confession of an affair with an...
Text of divorce statements from SC first lady, gov
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Here is the text of a statement released Friday by South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford on filing for divorce from Gov. Mark Sanford months after he publicly confessed an affair with an Argentine woman: "As so many...
NYC mayor on deadly shootout: `Too many guns'
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The mayor railed against gun violence on Friday, one day after a street peddler armed with a machine pistol died in a shootout with police outside a hotel in bustling Times Square. Raymond Martinez, 25, was killed by a...
Mom of Ohio suspect: Pipe bombs are his hobby
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A former anesthesiologist accused of making pipe bombs in his apartment didn't intend to harm anyone and detonated the devices in remote areas as a hobby, his mother told a newspaper. "Mark had no intention of killing...
US-born Hispanics see gains in education, income
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Young Hispanics born in the U.S. are less likely to drop out of school and live in poverty than Hispanic immigrants of their age, but they have higher exposure to gangs and violence, an independent research group says. ...
New chief of DC's National Zoo comes from Atlanta
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The National Zoo in Washington is getting its new director from Zoo Atlanta. The two zoos announced Friday that Atlanta' president and CEO, Dennis Kelly, has been named director of the National Zoo. Kelly will leave...
New chief of DC's National Zoo comes from Atlanta
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The National Zoo in Washington is getting its new director from Zoo Atlanta. The two zoos announced Friday that Atlanta' president and CEO, Dennis Kelly, has been named director of the National Zoo. Kelly will leave...
Ask AP: Palin's best-seller, making 3-D movies
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Sarah Palin wrapped up her new memoir "Going Rogue" in just four months after the book deal was announced _ you betcha she did! _ but did she write it alone, or did she have help? Curiosity about the making of Palin's...
La. woman arrested in grits attack on boyfriend
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A Louisiana woman is charged with getting back at her sleeping boyfriend after a fight by scalding him with a pot of boiling grits. Sheriff's deputies say 44-year-old Carolyn Brown caused second-degree burns on the...
AP News in Brief
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Police say 5 Americans detained in Pakistan over suspected terror links likely to be deported ISLAMABAD (AP) _ Five young American Muslims detained over alleged terrorist links in Pakistan are most likely to be...
The nation's weather
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Wintry weather was expected to persist over the Northeast and New England on Friday, while the Central U.S. could start to warm. The low pressure system that brought heavy snowfall to the Central and Eastern U.S. was...
Ind. executes man for 3 murders, first since '07
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An Indiana man who refused to request clemency has been executed for the 1994 killings of his estranged wife and two relatives. A state Department of Correction spokesman says 49-year-old Matthew Eric Wrinkles died...
Nobel award in hand, Obama faces hard work at home
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With a Nobel Peace Prize in hand, President Barack Obama is returning to the grind of governing, refocusing on his top domestic priority as the Senate moves toward a pivotal moment on legislation to remake the nation's...
World-class ice climber dies in Montana avalanche
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World-class ice climber Guy Lacelle died Thursday when an avalanche swept him off a mountain in southwestern Montana. The Canadian was climbing a gully when a team above him triggered a small avalanche, said Doug...
Stolen Seattle totem pole found near Salem, Ore.
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Police say an 18-foot-tall totem pole stolen from a West Seattle park has been found about 200 miles away in Oregon. The Seattle Times reports a 69-year-old West Seattle man led investigators to the pole. Police say he...
Today in History - Dec. 11
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Today is Friday, Dec. 11, the 345th day of 2009. There are 20 days left in the year. The Jewish Festival of Lights, Hanukkah, begins at sunset. Today's Highlight in History: On Dec. 11, 1936, Britain's King Edward...
US, allies warn of new Iran sanctions
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The United States, Britain and France warned Thursday that Iran risks increased sanctions unless it immediately complies with a series of Security Council resolutions regarding its nuclear program. Ambassadors from the...
Arsonists torch Bronx synagogue-turned-church
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A former Bronx synagogue that was turned into a church was torched by assailants who smeared Satanic graffiti on its walls. "We have no idea who did this," said the Rev. Raymond Talavera, pastor of the 150-member...
RI cop accused of beating teenager
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A Rhode Island police officer was arrested Thursday, accused of brutally beating a teenage boy and then encouraging fellow officers to lie about it to the FBI. Woonsocket police Officer John H. Douglas pleaded not...
Bones of T. rex to make museum debut in Oregon
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The skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex will make its museum debut at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry along the banks of the Willamette River. Museum President Nancy Stueber said the fossilized bones of a...