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Landing gear issue leads to plane's belly landing
Saturday, May 18, 10:07 am
NEWARK, N.J (AP) - An airline official says a US Airways Express flight with 34 people aboard was forced to make a belly landing at Newark International Airport after experiencing landing gear trouble.... Read more...
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Kansas City museum raising cash to fly 'Connie'
Saturday, May 18, 10:02 am
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - The National Airline History Museum is trying to raise $3.2 million to restore its Lockheed Constellation propeller-driven aircraft and recreate multimillionaire aviator... Read more...
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Marine who dumped toxins felt illness was payback
Saturday, May 18, 9:54 am
CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (AP) - Ron Poirier couldn't escape the feeling that his cancer was somehow a punishment. As a young Marine electronics technician at Camp Lejeune in the mid-1970s, the... Read more...
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Myanmar leader, Obama to meet while reforms stall
Saturday, May 18, 8:54 am
WASHINGTON (AP) - Myanmar President Thein Sein's historic White House visit next week is the culmination of U.S. outreach to a former pariah regime. That's been based on a principle of taking "action... Read more...
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Parking fees at California state beaches heat up
Saturday, May 18, 8:10 am
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Sunbathers flocking to Southern California beaches are used to feeding the meter or paying a parking attendant. Not so along the less developed north coast where it's customary... Read more...
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Police: Boy, 6, kicked by pony on Pa. farm dies
Saturday, May 18, 7:51 am
NEW HOLLAND, Pa. (AP) - Authorities say a 6-year-old boy died after he was kicked in the throat by a pony on a south-central Pennsylvania farm. Police in Lancaster County tell the Intelligencer... Read more...
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Money tangle: The IRS and its tea party tempest
Saturday, May 18, 7:48 am
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Internal Revenue Service is feeling the sort of heat that targeted taxpayers feel from the tax agency. It's the sense that a powerful someone is breathing down your neck. Republicans... Read more...
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Marine daughter seeks dignity for `Devil Dog pups'
Saturday, May 18, 7:39 am
JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (AP) - As she flipped through the cemetery register, Mary Blakely's eyes filled with tears. On line after line, the entry read simply "Baby Boy" or "Baby Girl,"... Read more...
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New Orleans says gunfire won't end 'second lines'
Saturday, May 18, 7:32 am
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - New Orleans officials and cultural advocates say the Mother's Day parade shootings that left 20 people injured won't spell the end of second-line parades, the local tradition... Read more...
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Will Boy Scouts accept gay youth? Vote is imminent
Saturday, May 18, 7:22 am
(AP) - With its ranks deeply divided, the Boy Scouts of America is asking its local leaders from across the country to decide whether its contentious membership policy should be overhauled so... Read more...
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After nearly 30 years, Camp Lejeune coming clean
Saturday, May 18, 6:56 am
CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (AP) - Purple wildflowers sprout in abundance around the bright-yellow pipe, one of several jutting from the sandy soil in this unassuming patch of grass and mud. A dirty hose... Read more...
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Victims: Marines failed to safeguard water supply
Saturday, May 18, 6:51 am
CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (AP) - A simple test could have alerted officials that the drinking water at Camp Lejeune was contaminated, long before authorities determined that as many as a million Marines... Read more...
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Conn., NTSB officials to tour train crash site
Saturday, May 18, 5:26 am
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Officials in Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's office say the governor will meet with representatives from the National Transportation Safety Board and Connecticut's two U.S. senators... Read more...
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Obama talks jobs, says politics misplace focus
Saturday, May 18, 3:03 am
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama is calling attention to his economic proposals and efforts to expand the middle class. In his weekly radio and Internet address, Obama says the U.S.... Read more...
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A look at the top 10 world record lottery jackpots
Saturday, May 18, 2:14 am
(AP) - The Powerball jackpot for Saturday night's drawing has climbed to $600 million, the largest in that game's history and closing in on the largest lottery jackpot of all time. Here's a look... Read more...
