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• Rebels attack sprawling air base in northern Syria

  April 27, 2013 in Nation/World BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian rebels attacked a sprawling military air base in the country’s northwest on Saturday, while in the south opposition forces assaulted a string of army checkpoints and …

• Post office retreats on eliminating Saturday mail

  April 10, 2013 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Postal Service backed down from its plan to eliminate Saturday mail delivery because Congress barred it, officials said today. But its governing board said it’s … 8

• Obama in Israel for first trip as president

  March 20, 2013 in Nation/World TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — President Barack Obama plunged into the turbulent Middle East Wednesday, assuring Israel of the U.S. commitment to its security while cautioning that the region’s “winds … 41

• The big dig-out: New England, NY slammed with snow

  February 9, 2013 in Nation/World New Englanders began the back-breaking job of digging out from as much as 3 feet of wet, heavy snow today and emergency crews used snowmobiles to reach shivering motorists stranded … 9

• Super Bowl outage traced to faulty protective device

  February 8, 2013 in Nation/World NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The failure of a device meant to protect the power supply to the Superdome caused the Super Bowl blackout, the stadium’s power company said Friday as … 7

• Armstrong emotional when recalling talk with son

  January 19, 2013 in Nation/World CHICAGO (AP) — Lance Armstrong finally cracked. Not while expressing deep remorse or regrets, though there was plenty of that in Friday night’s second part of Armstrong’s interview with Oprah … 10

• Strike likely averted at East Coast ports

  December 28, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — The union for longshoremen along the East Coast and Gulf of Mexico has agreed to extend its contract for 30 days, averting a possible strike that … 1

• Storms improve outlook for Mississippi River

  December 20, 2012 in Nation/World ST. LOUIS (AP) — A release of water from the Missouri River and recent snow and rain are offering some relief for the Mississippi River. Though still dangerously low, the …

• Strike looms at East and Gulf Coast ports

  December 19, 2012 in Nation/World BOSTON (AP) — Weeks after a critical West Coast port complex was crippled by a few hundred striking workers, the East Coast is bracing for a possible walkout numbering thousands …

• Officials: 31 people fired in Army daycare scandal

  December 19, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — At least 31 people were fired from two Army day care centers at Fort Myer, Va., last week after officials scrutinized their backgrounds and found criminal convictions … 1

• Training under way for new nuclear plant operators

  December 19, 2012 in Nation/World WAYNESBORO, Ga. (AP) — Utility companies are preparing a new wave of workers to run first-of-their-kind nuclear plants, a process certain to influence how workers are trained on the new … 1

• 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 …

• 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, …

• 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 …

• 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

• Army probing day care centers worldwide

  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 …

• 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, …

• NRC slaps Japanese company on California nuke work

  December 18, 2012 in Nation/World LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Japanese company that manufactured the troubled steam generators at the San Onofre nuclear power plant might be looking for fixes with the wrong test equipment, … 1

• Ohio governor spares condemned obese killer

  December 17, 2012 in Nation/World COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The governor on Monday sidestepped a decision about whether a condemned inmate was too fat to be humanely executed by sparing the prisoner on the grounds …

• Interstate 77 reopens after W.Va. gas inferno

  December 12, 2012 in Nation/World SISSONVILLE, W.Va. (AP) — Contractors worked through the night scraping away burned asphalt and repaving an 800-foot swath of Interstate 77 charred by a massive natural gas line explosion and …

• Part of interstate reopens after W.Va. gas inferno

  December 12, 2012 in Nation/World SISSONVILLE, W.Va. (AP) — Contractors worked through the night to remove and replace an 800-foot swath of Interstate 77 that turned from asphalt to cinder in a massive natural gas …

• Senator: Rock removal on Mississippi to start soon

  December 11, 2012 in Nation/World ST. LOUIS (AP) — Crews might be allowed to begin destroying two rock pinnacles impeding barge traffic on the Mississippi River as early as next week, more than a month …

• Air Force sends mystery mini-shuttle back to space

  December 11, 2012 in Nation/World CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The military’s small, top-secret version of the space shuttle rocketed into orbit Tuesday for a repeat mystery mission, two years after making the first flight …

• APNewsBreak: Texas judge halts oil pipeline work

  December 11, 2012 in Nation/World HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas judge has ordered TransCanada to temporarily halt work on a private property where it is building part of an oil pipeline designed to carry tar …

• Bike, large truck deaths soar, bucking trend

  December 10, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — Deaths of bicyclists and occupants of large trucks rose sharply last year even as total traffic fatalities dropped to their lowest level since 1949, federal safety officials …

• US job gains defy Sandy and fears of fiscal cliff

  December 7, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — It takes more than a superstorm to derail the U.S. job market. Employers added 146,000 jobs in November and the unemployment rate dipped to 7.7 percent, a …

• APNewsBreak: Corps not budging on Miss. River flap

  December 7, 2012 in Nation/World ST. LOUIS (AP) — The Army Corps of Engineers has turned back requests by federal lawmakers and the barge industry to release more of the Missouri River it is withholding, …

• New Yorkers wrestle with survival on subway tracks

  December 6, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — The horrific case of a man pushed to his death on the subway tracks has set New Yorkers abuzz about what they would do — and …

• To the moon? Firm hopes to sell $1.5 billion trips

  December 6, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — Attention wealthy nations and billionaires: A team of former NASA executives will fly you to the moon in an out-of-this-world commercial venture combining the wizardry of Apollo …

• US Reps. expect deeper look at NJ derailment

  December 6, 2012 in Nation/World CLARKSBORO, N.J. (AP) — Federal regulations require inspections of rail bridges and other infrastructure and reports on accidents, but leave it to freight railroad owners to do the work themselves. …

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