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Six Flags closes 9 North American roller coasters after families watch man fall to his death
Deputy shot; illegal immigrants suspected
PHOENIX - A veteran sheriff's deputy was shot and wounded Friday after encountering a group of suspected illegal immigrants who apparently had been hauling bal…
Gulf oil spill out of control
VENICE, La. - An oil spill that threatened to eclipse even the Exxon Valdez disaster spread out of control with a faint sheen washing ashore along the Gulf Coa…
Navy to allow women to serve on subs
KINGS BAY NAVAL SUBMARINE BASE, Ga. - The first U.S. women allowed to serve aboard submarines will be reporting for duty by 2012, the Navy said Thursday as the…
GOP quits blockade of banking controls
WASHINGTON (AP) - Republicans abandoned their blockade against legislation to clamp tough new controls on Wall Street Wednesday, clearing a road to likely passage for the most sweeping rewrite of financial rules si…
Supreme Court: Cross is OK on public land
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court's conservative majority signaled a greater willingness to allow religious symbols on public land Wednesday, a stance that c…
Brown calls voter a bigot in UK campaign gaffe
LONDON - Britain's Prime Minister blundered into the first major gaffe in his country's short campaign season Wednesday when an open microphone captured him sl…
New oil leak in area of sunken drilling rig
NEW ORLEANS - A new oil leak was discovered at the site in the Gulf of Mexico where a drilling rig exploded and sank, and experts now estimate that five times …
Feds may go to court to stop Arizona law
WASHINGTON (AP) - Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday that the federal government may go to court to challenge Arizona's new law which makes it a state crime to be in the United States illegally.
Goldman execs deny wrongdoing
WASHINGTON - Defending his company under blistering criticism, the CEO of Goldman Sachs testily told skeptical senators Tuesday that customers who bought securities from the Wall Street giant in the run-up to a nat…
Survivors assess storm damage; 12 killed
YAZOO CITY, Miss. (AP) - Some Mississippi residents cracked jokes Monday to keep from crying while they looked for salvageable items among the rubble left by severe storms that killed 12 people over the weekend.
Democrats push for bank controls; GOP delays action
WASHINGTON - Undaunted by a Senate setback, Democrats appeared increasingly confident Monday they will be able to take advantage of Americans' anger at Wall Street and push through the most sweeping new controls on…
Furor continues over Arizona law
PHOENIX (AP) - The furor over Arizona's new law cracking down on illegal immigrants grew Monday as opponents used refried beans to smear swastikas on the state Capitol, civil rights leaders demanded a boycott of th…
Allison Cowles, media matriarch, dies at age 75
SPOKANE — Allison Stacey Cowles, former wife of ex-Spokesman-Review president and publisher William H. Cowles III and a prominent and influential civic leader, died in the early hours of Sunday morning at her resid…
Quick end to gulf oil leak depends on robot subs
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - It could take hours or it could take months to stop a 42,000-gallon-a-day oil leak polluting the Gulf of Mexico at the site of a wrecked drilling platform. Whether the environmental threat grows …
Obama: W.Va. miners died in pursuit of better life
BECKLEY, W.Va. - They lived and they died pursuing the American Dream, working in dangerous conditions underground to help keep the lights on across the country, a somber President Barack Obama said Sunday in a eul…