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Search ongoing for missing medical flight from Bermuda to Boston as crews plan to scour ocean floor
Bitten surfer says shark came from nowhere
From shutdown to debt default?
Plenty of hot-button cases for high court
The new war on terror
Obama to public: Don't give up on health sign-ups
A rare flash?
Mormon leader: Essential to have women at home
Early season emergency
Livestock disease found in second Montana cattle herd
BILLINGS, Mont. - A second case of the livestock disease brucellosis in just over a week has turned up in a Montana cattle herd, coinciding with new restrictions on animals exported to Texas because of worries that…
Forest Service stops logging early
GRANTS PASS, Ore. - The U.S. Forest Service confirmed Friday it is shutting down logging operations on national forests across the country due to the partial s…
Stocks fall on third day of government shutdown
NEW YORK (AP) - Investors sold stocks across the board Thursday as a U.S. government shutdown dragged into its third day and the nation inched closer to a critical deadline to raise its borrowing limit.
Child slapper pleads guilty
ATLANTA - A man pleaded guilty to a charge of simple assault Wednesday for slapping a crying toddler on an Atlanta-bound flight.
Twitter unseals IPO papers, hopes to raise $1 billion
NEW YORK (AP) - Twitter has unsealed the documents for its planned initial public offering of stock and says it hopes to raise up to $1 billion in one of the y…
Novelist Tom Clancy dies at 66
NEW YORK (AP) - In 1985, a year after the Cold War thriller "The Hunt for Red October" came out, author Tom Clancy was invited to lunch at the Reagan White House, where he was questioned by Navy Secretary John Lehm…