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• Panel to recommend child-abuse law changes in Pa.

  November 27, 2012 in Nation/World HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A commission set up by the Pennsylvania Legislature after Jerry Sandusky’s molestation arrest last year will issue a report that could recommend changes to state law. …

• Panel to recommend child-abuse law changes in Pa.

  November 26, 2012 in Nation/World HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A commission set up by the Pennsylvania Legislature after Jerry Sandusky’s molestation arrest last year is about to make its recommendations. The Pennsylvania Task Force on …

• Another blow for state’s anti-eavesdropping law

  November 26, 2012 in Nation/World CHICAGO (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday delivered another blow to a 50-year-old anti-eavesdropping law in Illinois, choosing to let stand a lower court finding that key parts …

• Singers continue long Wis. tradition of protest

  November 24, 2012 in Nation/World MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Every weekday as the clock strikes noon, dozens of demonstrators pass out songbooks inside the Wisconsin Capitol. Office workers who know what’s coming scramble to close … 3

• With pot legal, police worry about road safety

  November 15, 2012 in Nation/World DENVER (AP) — It’s settled. Pot, at least certain amounts of it, will soon be legal under state laws in Washington and Colorado. Now, officials in both states are trying …

• Coming to Texas ballots: another Bush in 2014?

  November 9, 2012 in Nation/World AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — George P. Bush, a rising star among Hispanic conservatives and the grandson of one president and nephew of another, has taken the first step toward seeking …

• Washington voters approve gay marriage

  November 8, 2012 in Nation/World OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington state has approved gay marriage, joining Maine and Maryland as the first states to pass same-sex marriage by popular vote. With about three-quarters of the …

• Seemingly endless Wis. election cycle eases to end

  November 8, 2012 in Nation/World MILWAUKEE (AP) — Candidates approving this message have been at it for two years in Wisconsin, along with the robocalls, angry commercials, emails begging for campaign donations and glossy political …

• Obama on the road: a study in self-assurance

  November 3, 2012 in Nation/World MILWAUKEE (AP) — In his days in the state Senate in Springfield, Ill., Barack Obama was known as a pretty good poker player. While he might have known how to … 3

• Texas trooper in chopper shooting returns to work

  November 1, 2012 in Nation/World LA JOYA, Texas (AP) — The Texas trooper who fired on a fleeing pickup truck from a helicopter near the U.S.-Mexico border, killing two illegal immigrants hiding in the bed, … 1

• NYC’s subways rolling again, with limited service

  November 1, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — The cleanup of miles of New Jersey shorefront ripped apart by Superstorm Sandy has just begun, but New York City moved closer to resuming its normal …

• NYC subway creaking back as region assesses damage

  November 1, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — The cleanup of miles of New Jersey shorefront ripped apart by Superstorm Sandy has just begun, but New York City moved closer to resuming its normal …

• GOP’s Mourdock stands by rape, abortion remark

  October 24, 2012 in Nation/World INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana Republican Senate candidate Richard Mourdock refused to apologize Wednesday for saying that when pregnancy results from rape then that is “something God intended.” State Republicans and … 2

• Ind. GOP Senate candidate stands by rape comment

  October 24, 2012 in Nation/World INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana Republican Senate candidate Richard Mourdock said Wednesday that he is standing by his statement that when a woman becomes pregnant during a rape “that’s something God … 1

• Ind. Senate candidate criticized over rape comment

  October 24, 2012 in Nation/World NEW ALBANY, Ind. (AP) — Top Republicans were slow to embrace tea party-backed Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock after he ousted a longtime GOP senator from office. Though he eventually … 1

• Mourdock criticized over rape, pregnancy comments

  October 24, 2012 in Nation/World NEW ALBANY, Ind. (AP) — Top Republicans were slow to embrace tea party-backed Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock after he ousted a longtime GOP senator from office. Though he eventually … 12

• Wife told court Wis. spa shooter terrorized her

  October 22, 2012 in Nation/World MILWAUKEE (AP) — A Wisconsin man terrorized his wife for years, threatening to throw acid on her face, dousing her car with tomato juice and slashing her vehicle’s tires before …

• Wyoming Democrat wages lonely congressional fight

  October 22, 2012 in Nation/World CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — Chris Henrichsen’s hopeful knocking on doors only disturbed the afternoon naps of dogs in a previously quiet Casper neighborhood. Then he finally hit pay dirt: Someone …

• Miss. says no thanks to Medicaid expansion dollars

  October 18, 2012 in Nation/World JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi has long been one of the sickest and poorest states in America, with some of the highest rates of obesity, diabetes and heart disease and …

• Official proposes bullet tax to curb Chicago crime

  October 18, 2012 in Nation/World CHICAGO (AP) — As Chicago struggles to quell gang violence that has contributed to a jump in homicides, a top elected official wants to tax the sale of every bullet … 1

• Marijuana backers courting conservatives

  October 16, 2012 in Nation/World DENVER (AP) — It’s not all hippies backing November’s marijuana legalization votes in Colorado, Oregon and Washington. Appealing to Western individualism and a mistrust of federal government, activists have lined … 1

• For dollars’ worth of copper farmers out thousands

  October 14, 2012 in Nation/World DOS PALOS, Calif. (AP) — Cannon Michael is a folk hero across California’s agriculture heartland, where these days the price of scrap metal influences a farmer’s bottom line as much … 1

• Hunters ready for 1st wolf hunts in Wis., Minn.

  October 10, 2012 in Nation/World MADISON, Wis. (AP) — For years, vacationers and farmers across northern Wisconsin and Minnesota have heard the eerie howl of the gray wolf and fretted the creatures were lurking around … 1

• Tom DeLay to make case to appeals court

  October 10, 2012 in Nation/World AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Former U.S. House Majority Leader and GOP heavyweight Tom DeLay is getting ready to make his case to an appeals court that his 2010 conviction for …

• NY court considers: Is gang member a terrorist?

  October 8, 2012 in Nation/World ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — In 2002, a New York City street gang crashed a christening party, shouted out their superiority, confronted a rival and started a fight that left a … 1

• Ark. GOP calls candidates’ statements ‘offensive’

  October 7, 2012 in Nation/World LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas Republicans tried to distance themselves Saturday from a Republican state representative’s assertion that slavery was a “blessing in disguise” and a Republican state House …

• Ark. GOP calls candidates’ statements ‘offensive’

  October 6, 2012 in Nation/World LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas Republicans tried to distance themselves Saturday from a Republican state representative’s assertion that slavery was a “blessing in disguise” and a Republican state House … 1

• Fatal parasail accidents renew calls for rules

  October 5, 2012 in Nation/World MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Soaring high above the ocean, tethered to a boat, a parasail ride is at once exhilarating and peaceful, even quiet. But every year, there are …

• Judge tosses Montana campaign finance limits

  October 3, 2012 in Nation/World HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday struck down Montana’s campaign contribution limits as unconstitutional, a decision that comes less than a month before Election Day and marks …

• Judge halts Pa.’s tough new voter ID requirement

  October 2, 2012 in Nation/World HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s divisive voter identification requirement became the latest of its kind to get pushback from the courts ahead of Election Day, delivering a hard-fought victory to …

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