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Man with knife arrested at Staples Center
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A steak knife-wielding man held police and security guards at bay for nearly an hour at the Staples Center in a bizarre scene that played out just before the Los Angeles Clippers hosted the Cleve…
Allies prepare for no-fly zone
LONDON (AP) - The United States, France and Britain told Libya's leader Moammar Gadhafi to withdraw his troops from formerly rebel-held areas and halt any atta…
Feds deploy more radiation monitors
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - More radiation monitors are being deployed in the western United States and Pacific territories, as officials seek to mollify public concern over exposure from damaged nuclear plants in Japan, …
Duncan pleads guilty to California murder
INDIO, Calif. (AP) - A man convicted in a horrific Idaho murder case pleaded guilty Tuesday to torturing and killing a 10-year-old-boy in Southern California in 1997.
Obama: Leave Bush school standards behind
WASHINGTON (AP) - Urging Congress to send him a new education law by fall, President Barack Obama focused Monday on the big concerns of parents and lawmakers alike: how student progress is measured and how schools …
Big GOP donors taking time to get into 2012 race
WASHINGTON (AP) - The potential White House candidates need cash.
Dems hope to taint Romney with health law praise
BOSTON - President Barack Obama and other top Democrats have been quick to lavish praise on former Massachusetts Republican Gov. Mitt Romney for signing the sw…
Official: Riders say bus crash driver swerved
NEW YORK (AP) - Passengers and witnesses to a horrific New York City crash that sheared the top off a bus and killed 14 people told investigators that the driver's account of getting clipped by a tractor-trailer di…
Casino bus accident kills 14
NEW YORK - A tour bus returning from a casino at daybreak Saturday scraped along a guard rail, tipped on its side and slammed into a pole that sheared it nearl…
Giffords making huge strides in her recovery
HOUSTON (AP) - She can talk, even saying short sentences. With some help, she can walk. She also knows that she was shot.
West Coast affected by tsunami
CRESCENT CITY, Calif. - The warnings traveled quickly across the Pacific in the middle of the night: An 8.9-magnitude earthquake in Japan spawned a deadly tsun…
Labor pains
MADISON, Wis. - With the labor movement suffering an epic defeat in Wisconsin and perhaps other states, union leaders plan to use the setback to fire up their …
NPR president resigns after VP criticizes tea party
WASHINGTON - NPR's president and CEO resigned Wednesday in an effort to limit the damage from hidden camera footage of a fellow executive deriding the tea party movement as "seriously racist." Conservatives called …
Montana, federal officials seek buffalo solution
BILLINGS, Mont. - Montana and federal officials are negotiating a proposal to open a large area north of Yellowstone National Park to roaming bison during winter - a move aimed at relieving pressure to slaughter th…
Wyoming plagued by a big-cityproblem: smog
CHEYENNE, Wyo. - Wyoming, famous for its crisp mountain air and breathtaking, far-as-the-eye-can-see vistas, is looking a little bit like smoggy Los Angeles th…