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Isaias closes in on the US Gulf Coast as a dangerous Category 3 hurricane
Dangerous conditions are expected throughout the western panhandle, southern Alabama and southern Mississippi, the…
Famed pianist Roger Williams dies at 87
Family of missing Missouri baby setting up reward
Protesters want world to know they're just like us
World / Nation briefs October 9, 2011
Front and center
WASHINGTON - They know they're not crazy about Mitt Romney. But if the cultural conservatives gathered at a Values Voters Summit this weekend split among Rick …
World / Nation briefs October 8, 2011
Housing bust worst since Great Depression
WASHINGTON (AP) - The American dream of homeownership has felt its biggest drop since the Great Depression, according to new 2010 census figures released Thursday.
New law costs Alabama workers
MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Alabama's strict new immigration law may be backfiring. Intended to force illegal workers out of jobs, it is also driving away many construc…
Obama challenges GOP on jobs bill
WASHINGTON - Defiant and frustrated, President Barack Obama aggressively challenged Republicans Thursday to get behind his jobs plan or explain why not, declaring that if Congress fails to act "the American people …
Nation briefs October 6, 2011
FBI: Suspect in triple slaying in Montana arrested
Apple co-founder Jobs dies
CUPERTINO, Calif. - Steve Jobs, the Apple founder and former CEO who invented and masterfully marketed ever-sleeker gadgets that transformed everyday technolog…
A Seattle homecoming
SEATTLE (AP) - Amanda Knox returned to her hometown of Seattle on Tuesday and was as overcome with emotion as she was a day earlier in Italy, when she was acqu…
We're talking salad, but eating burgers
NEW YORK - Americans talk skinny but eat fat.
World / Nation briefs October 3, 2011
Nobel committee accidentally awards prize to dead man
Recognition came just a little too late for a biologist at Rockefeller University in New York, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine today, three days after he died of pancreatic cancer.