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Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed
Occupy protests turn violent
Huge Alaska storm leaves widespread damage
'Family Circus' creator Bil Keane dies at 89
PHOENIX - Bil Keane's "Family Circus" comics entertained readers with a simple but sublime mix of humor and traditional family values for more than a half century. The appeal endured, the author thought, because th…
GOP field: Fix U.S. economy or fail like Europe
ROCHESTER, Mich. - United in agreement for once, Republican presidential rivals warned forcefully Wednesday night the United States could be doomed to the same…
Election won't sway mayor
COEUR d'ALENE - The city's legal team says it fits within the letter of the law, and the election winners say it's why they were voted in.
Defiant Cain says he won't drop out
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - Under rising pressure from fellow Republicans, presidential hopeful Herman Cain sought to muddy the reputation of one accuser, forcefully d…
BP oil cleanup nears the end
NEW ORLEANS - BP will no longer be responsible for cleaning up oil that winds up on shores of the Gulf Coast unless officials can prove it comes from the company's well that blew out in 2010, causing the worst offs…
Life-at-fertilization ballot question fails
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Mississippi voters Tuesday defeated a ballot initiative that would have declared life begins at fertilization, a proposal that supporters sought in the Bible Belt state as a way to prompt a le…
CIA tracks revolt by Tweets
McLEAN, Va. - In an anonymous industrial park, CIA analysts who jokingly call themselves the "ninja librarians" are mining the mass of information people publi…
High schooler arrested
MOSES LAKE - A Moses Lake High School student was arrested after allegedly telling a teacher he had thoughts of hurting other people.
Advocates seek stop to Idaho wolf hunts
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) - Wildlife advocates appeared in federal court Tuesday seeking to stop gray wolf hunts that are already well under way in the Northern Rockies, arguing that Congress overstepped its authority …
Michael Jackson doctor guilty
Quake rocks Oklahoma
Unprecedented wealth gap between young and old
Older adults have the highest economic advantage over young adults seen in the nation's history, according to Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. Census data.
Andy Rooney dies