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State Dept security chief resigns after Benghazi
December 19, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — Three State Department officials resigned under pressure Wednesday, less than a day after a damning report blamed management failures for a lack of security at the U.S. … 8
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FBI offers $50k reward in Chicago jail escape
December 19, 2012 in Nation/World CHICAGO (AP) — A manhunt for two bank robbers who used a makeshift rope to pull off a daring escape from a high-rise Chicago lockup pushed into a second day …
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Clarification: TV-New Millennial Network story
December 19, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — In a story Dec. 17, The Associated Press reported that the upcoming cable channel being launched by Participant Media had acquired the distribution assets of the …
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Senators say State failed on Benghazi security
December 19, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — Senators of both parties expressed frustration Wednesday at the findings of an independent panel that blamed systemic failures in the State Department leadership for “grossly inadequate” security …
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Shattered Newtown tries to make sense of tragedy
December 19, 2012 in Nation/World NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — For a third straight day Wednesday, funeral processions rolled through a grieving Connecticut town trying to make sense of the massacre of 20 first-graders and six …
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Snowstorm hits Rockies, heads to Midwest
December 19, 2012 in Nation/World DENVER (AP) — A storm that has dumped more than a foot of snow in the Rocky Mountains is heading east and is forecast to bring the first major winter …
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For minor crimes, NYers sentenced to Sandy relief
December 19, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — New Yorkers who got into minor trouble in Manhattan have been sentenced to Sandy. Last week, 70 people who were given community service after pleading guilty …
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Carnegie fund mints newest class of heroes
December 19, 2012 in Nation/World An apartment complex clerk shot in the head. A boy stabbed by knife-wielding men. Teens struggling to stay afloat in the Pacific. An elderly woman trapped in her burning home. … 1
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Obama to press for policy changes after shooting
December 19, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is launching an administration-wide effort to curb gun violence, underscoring the growing political consensus over tightening gun restrictions following the horrific massacre at a …
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2 inmates fled Chicago high-rise jail using rope
December 19, 2012 in Nation/World CHICAGO (AP) — A manhunt for two bank robbers who used a makeshift rope to pull off a daring escape from a high-rise Chicago lockup pushed into a second day …
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Benghazi review slams State Department on security
December 19, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — The leaders of an independent panel that blamed systematic State Department management and leadership failures for gross security lapses in the deadly Sept. 11 attack on a …
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Dancing cop stops holiday traffic in Rhode Island
December 19, 2012 in Nation/World PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Ah, Christmas in Rhode Island. Exquisitely decorated mansions in Newport. A red nose on the giant termite that sits atop a Providence exterminator’s building. And a … 2
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Grief mixes with impatience in shattered Newtown
December 19, 2012 in Nation/World NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — Mourners overlapped at back-to-back services as funerals began in earnest in a Connecticut town that lost 20 of its children and seven adults to a gunman, …
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Grief mixes with impatience in shattered Newtown
December 18, 2012 in Nation/World NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — Emotions are in tatters amid a global crush of attention to a Connecticut town once known mostly for its bucolic atmosphere and sterling school system. Newtown …
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Dancing cop stops holiday traffic in Rhode Island
December 18, 2012 in Nation/World PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Nothing says Christmas in Rhode Island’s largest city quite like the “dancing cop.” Providence Police Officer Tony Lepore is as much a holiday tradition as anything …
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Cruz visits home of Giants fan, 6, killed in Conn.
December 18, 2012 in Nation/World NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — New York Giants receiver Victor Cruz has visited the home of the 6-year-old Connecticut shooting victim who was buried in a replica Cruz jersey. Jack Pinto …
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Panetta orders probe of military day care centers
December 18, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Tuesday ordered a worldwide review of hiring practices at all U.S. military day care centers after the Army revealed that it discovered …
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13 surrender in Illinois fraternity drinking death
December 18, 2012 in Nation/World DEKALB, Ill. (AP) — Thirteen of the 22 people facing hazing-related charges following a Northern Illinois University student’s death have turned themselves in to police. A DeKalb Police Department spokesman …
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Investors turn against gun makers after massacre
December 18, 2012 in Nation/World MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Investors shunned some of the nation’s largest gun makers Tuesday, putting up for sale the manufacturer of the Bushmaster semiautomatic rifle used in the Connecticut school shooting … 3
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Gunman released from jail hours before killings
December 18, 2012 in Nation/World LONGMONT, Colo. (AP) — Police say a man who killed his ex-girlfriend and two of her relatives before fatally shooting himself had been accused of kidnapping the woman and released …
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Man charged with firing shots outside Calif mall
December 18, 2012 in Nation/World SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A man charged with firing 54 shots outside a Southern California mall has been linked to a similar shooting at the same mall in 2011. … 1
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House, Senate reach agreement on defense bill
December 18, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — House and Senate negotiators reached agreement Tuesday on a $633 billion defense bill that would tighten sanctions on Iran, increase security at diplomatic missions worldwide after the …
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2 inmates escape from high-rise jail in Chicago
December 18, 2012 in Nation/World CHICAGO (AP) — Two bank robbers pulled off a daring escape from downtown Chicago’s high-rise jail Tuesday by apparently scaling down about 20 stories using a makeshift rope tied to … 1
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Newsman’s disappearance largely kept secret
December 18, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — NBC was able to keep the abduction of chief Middle East correspondent Richard Engel in Syria largely a secret until he escaped late Monday because it …
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Classes resume in Newtown, minus Sandy Hook
December 18, 2012 in Nation/World NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — Newtown returned its students to their classrooms Tuesday for the first time since last week’s massacre and faced the agonizing task of laying others to rest, …
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Gun advocates conflicted on changes after massacre
December 18, 2012 in Nation/World KITTERY, Maine (AP) — In a region where gun ownership is a cherished right, holiday shoppers snake through rows of shotguns, pistols and semi-automatic assault rifles at the Kittery Trading …
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NRA promises to help prevent school shootings
December 18, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — After four days of self-imposed silence on the shooting that killed 26 people inside a Newtown, Conn., elementary school, the nation’s largest gun rights lobby emerged Tuesday …
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Army general to face court-martial in sex charges
December 18, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — An Army general will face court-martial on a series of sexual misconduct charges, including forcible sodomy, in connection with several illicit affairs, and could receive life in …
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Teacher sole heir of $7.4M gold coin fortune
December 18, 2012 in Nation/World CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Walter Samaszko Jr. was a loner whose death went largely unnoticed. That all changed when a crew sent to clean out his house found a … 1
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Stylists: Lanza never spoke, made no eye contact
December 18, 2012 in Nation/World NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — As a teenager, Adam Lanza would come in for a haircut about every six weeks without speaking or looking at anyone and always accompanied by his …
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