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4 dead from storm as Isaias brings threat of floods across the Southeast
Despite warnings of life-threatening storm surges ahead of the storm, several major routes along the coast were op…
Consumer prices flat for 2nd straight month
WASHINGTON - Consumer prices, excluding energy, were flat in September for the second straight month, a sign that cost-conscious consumers are making it difficult for businesses to charge more.
Company introduces new, red celery
MINNEAPOLIS - Is America ready for red celery? A Florida produce company thinks so and has bet consumers will bite on the colorful crunch of its new product.
Armenian organized crime grows more complex
GLENDALE, Calif. (AP) - Endeavor Diagnostics billed itself as a thriving medical laboratory that performed more than $1 million of work for Medicare patients.
Feds oppose California marijuana proposal
SAN FRANCISCO — Attorney General Eric Holder is warning that the federal government will not look the other way, as it has with medical marijuana, if voters ne…
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Foreclosure anger hits fall election campaign
MIAMI (AP) — Three weeks before the election, anger over tainted home foreclosure documents is bursting into the battle for control of Congress, especially in …
Bankrupt resort founder faces probe
BILLINGS, Mont. - Two years after the bankruptcy of Montana's Yellowstone Club laid bare a massive real estate scheme fueled by greed, fraud and hundreds of mi…
No Social Security COLA expected for 2011
WASHINGTON - As if voters don't have enough to be angry about this election year, the government is expected to announce this week that more than 58 million So…
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2 Nat. Park officers dead in plane crash
PAGE, Ariz. (AP) - Two National Park Service law enforcement officers have died in the crash of a small plane in southern Utah.
Wyoming hunter kills grizzly that attacks him
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — An elk hunter who shot and killed a grizzly bear after the animal bit his arm hiked three miles to a trailhead and drove himself to a hospital in Cody, the Wyoming Game and Fish Department sai…
'Public relations problem' probed
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration blocked efforts by government scientists to tell the public just how bad the Gulf oil spill could become and committ…
Bank bailout supporters struggling for re-election
WASHINGTON - The government's giant bank bailout may well have averted a second Great Depression, economists say, but a lot of voters aren't buying it. Support for the program is turning into a kiss of death for ma…
Times Square bomber sentenced
NEW YORK - The Pakistani immigrant who tried to detonate a car bomb on a busy Saturday night in Times Square accepted a life sentence with a smirk Tuesday and …
Hands-only CPR saves more lives in cardiac arrests
CHICAGO - Hands-only CPR doesn't just eliminate the "yuck factor." A new study shows it can save more lives.