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Palin emails show engaged leader who sought VP nod
JUNEAU, Alaska - There are no bombshells, no "gotcha" moments.
Supplies ferried into flooded Montana
BILLINGS, Mont. - Emergency workers ferried supplies to more than 300 people cut off Friday by flooding that has overwhelmed Montana towns and caused an estima…
Palin emails show her coping with new fame
JUNEAU, Alaska - As Alaska governor, Sarah Palin struggled with the gossip about her family and marriage.
GOP field remains in flux
WASHINGTON (AP) - Newt Gingrich's campaign defections are just the latest tremor in a constantly shifting GOP presidential landscape that craves some steadiness as a big, early New Hampshire debate nears.
Arizona wildfire heads east
SPRINGERVILLE, Ariz. - A massive wildfire in eastern Arizona that has claimed more than 30 homes and cabins and forced nearly 10,000 people to flee was poised …
Americans' home equity hits low point
WASHINGTON (AP) - Falling real estate prices are eating away at home equity.
Barefoot Bandit pleadsnot guilty to federal charges
SEATTLE (AP) - The 20-year-old "Barefoot Bandit," whose daring two-year run from the law in stolen boats, cars and planes earned him international notoriety, pleaded not guilty to a new indictment in federal court …
World/Nation Briefs June 9, 2011
Raging Arizona fire now larger in size than Phoenix
Heat grips much of U.S. ... get used to it
WASHINGTON (AP) - The mercury climbed into the 90s across half the country Wednesday in a record-breaking blast of August-like heat, forcing schools with no ai…
Wildfire becomes second largest in Arizona history
SPRINGERVILLE, Ariz. (AP) - Flames from a mammoth forest fire licked the ridges surrounding the eastern Arizona town of Eagar on Tuesday afternoon, forcing the…
Santorum plunges into GOP presidential sweepstakes
SOMERSET, Pa. (AP) - Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, a blunt talker who is popular among social conservatives, plunged into the 2012 Republican preside…
Cellphone cancer warning falls lightly on US ears
NEW YORK - News last week that an arm of the World Health Organization said cellphones might raise the risk of brain cancer has been greeted by Americans mostly with a shrug of the shoulder - one that's pinning a c…
Forest fire triggers new evacuation orders
GREER, Ariz. (AP) - Authorities ordered more eastern Arizona residents to evacuate their homes Sunday as a 225-square-mile blaze that has grown into the third-…
Missouri levee breach prompts evacuations
HAMBURG, Iowa (AP) - Six hundred residents in southwest Iowa were ordered Sunday to evacuate their homes after the Missouri River breached a levee across the border in Missouri.
RFK's fellow victim changes life, lives of others
LOS ANGELES - Paul Schrade easily recites the details of the last day of his life before he was shot in the head alongside his friend, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. …