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United recovering from canceled, delayed flights
CHICAGO (AP) - A five-hour computer outage that virtually shut down United Airlines Friday night and early Saturday is a stark reminder of how dependent airlin…
World/Nation Briefs June 18, 2011
Trail goes cold in hunt for fugitive
MISSOULA - A Montana fugitive and ex-militia leader has been on the run since a Sunday shootout with deputies, but the trail has gone cold.
'Barefoot Bandit' to plead guilty
SEATTLE (AP) - The 20-year-old Washington man who gained fame last year as the "Barefoot Bandit" was expected to plead guilty to criminal charges stemming from his 2-year run from the law in stolen boats, cars and …
Defiant no longer, U.S. Rep. Weiner resigns Red in the morning ...
NEW YORK (AP) - Defiant and combative no longer, New York Rep. Anthony Weiner soberly announced his resignation from Congress on Thursday, bowing to the furor …
Group expands complaint over megaload inaction
BOISE (AP) - An environmental group suing over plans to haul oversized truckloads of oil refinery equipment along a northern Idaho highway and federally protected river corridor have expanded their complaint to inc…
Snow, big run-off celebrated in water-hungry West
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Communities below the snow-capped mountains of the West are bracing against the swelling rivers and flooding that come with the spring thaw. In the drought-ravaged cities of the Southwest, however,…
Los Angeles students: Say goodbye to chocolate milk
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Los Angeles Unified School District is taking a stand against child obesity, becoming the nation's largest school system to stop serving sugar-laden flavored milk.
Obama visits Puerto Rico with eye on U.S. voters
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - Wooing Hispanic voters back home, President Barack Obama kept his campaign pledge to become the first president since John F. Kennedy to make an official visit to this recession-battere…
Republicans target Obama in debate
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) - Republican White House hopefuls condemned President Barack Obama's handling of the economy from the opening moments of their first majo…
Pentagon Papers, 40 years later
WASHINGTON (AP) - Call it the granddaddy of WikiLeaks. Four decades ago, a young defense analyst leaked a top-secret study packed with damaging revelations abo…
Seeking collaboration from readers
The analysis of Sarah Palin's emails over the past few days may end up teaching us more about the future of journalism than about the former Alaska governor's …
Arizona wildfire spreads, health conditions worsen
SPRINGERVILLE, Ariz. - An eye-stinging, throat-burning haze of smoke spewing from a gigantic wildfire in eastern Arizona is beginning to stretch as far east as…
Race shifts as Weiner all but certainly out
NEW YORK - There are many things that Rep. Anthony Weiner was never shy about, and one was telling people he hoped to become New York City's mayor.
Utah case will be first Toyota suit to see court
LOS ANGELES - After years of legal wrangling, the first of hundreds of lawsuits over acceleration problems against Toyota Motor Corp. has been scheduled for tr…