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Deputy shoots, kills himself in Northern California courthouse

CRESCENT CITY, Calif. (AP) - Colleagues at a Northern California sheriff's office are mourning one of their own after a longtime deputy fatally shot himself inside the county courthouse.

September 25, 2012 | By The Associated Press | Signal AP


Beeping clocks prompt L.A. radio station evacuation

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A suspicious, beeping package that prompted the evacuation of Los Angeles all-news radio station KNX turned out to be a box full of clocks.

September 25, 2012 | By The Associated Press | Signal AP


Gusty winds could push deadly Southern California wildfire

CAMPO, Calif. (AP) - A fire that killed an elderly man who refused to evacuate and burned 20 homes in rural San Diego County was smoldering Tuesday, but gusty afternoon winds could push it back to life, authorities said.

September 25, 2012 | By The Associated Press | Signal AP


Immigrant requests strain consulates, schools

SAN DIEGO (AP) - Schools in Yakima, Wash., are taking nearly a month to deliver transcripts to former students. The Mexican consulate in Denver introduced Saturday hours last month after passport applications spiked by one-third. San Diego public schools added five employees in a new office to handle records requests.

September 25, 2012 | By The Associated Press | Signal AP


Work by Mass. lab could taint 1,100 inmates' cases

BOSTON (AP) - Faced with the daunting task of evaluating more than 34,000 drug cases handled by a Massachusetts chemist accused of misconduct, prosecutors and defense attorneys are starting with 1,140 cases of people who are already serving prison sentences based on potentially tainted evidence.

September 25, 2012 | By The Associated Press | Signal AP


WHY IT MATTERS: Gay marriage

EDITOR'S NOTE _ One in a series examining issues at stake in the election and their impact on people

September 25, 2012 | By The Associated Press | Signal AP


Tesla unveils faster electric car charging station

HAWTHORNE (AP) - Tesla Motors Inc. unveiled a solar-powered charging station on Monday that it said will make refueling electric vehicles on long trips about as fast as stopping for gas and a bathroom break in a conventional car.

September 25, 2012 | By The Associated Press | Signal AP


Romney, Obama focus on US posture abroad

NEW YORK (AP) - President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney are sparring over how best to address U.S. challenges abroad in nearly back-to-back addresses at the Clinton Global Initiative's annual meeting.

September 25, 2012 | By The Associated Press | Signal AP


Images show NKorea launch pad halt

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea has stopped construction on a launch pad where intercontinental-range rockets could be tested, an interruption possibly due to heavy rains and that could stall completion up to two years, according to an analysis of new satellite imagery.

September 25, 2012 | By The Associated Press | Signal AP


US, Egypt seek better ties after embassy protests

NEW YORK (AP) - The United States and Egypt sought Monday to repair ties strained severely by a year-and-a-half of rapid change in the Middle East, culminating in the last two weeks with Egyptian demonstrators overrunning the U.S. Embassy in Cairo and President Barack Obama candidly remarking that the two countries were now neither enemies nor allies.

September 25, 2012 | By The Associated Press | Signal AP


Einstein's brain is now interactive iPad app

CHICAGO (AP) - The brain that revolutionized physics now can be downloaded as an app for $9.99. But it won't help you win at Angry Birds.

September 25, 2012 | By The Associated Press | Signal AP


Report: Premium hikes for top Medicare drug plans

WASHINGTON (AP) - Seniors enrolled in seven of the 10 most popular Medicare prescription drug plans will be hit with double-digit premium hikes next year if they don't shop for a better deal, says a private firm that analyzes the highly competitive market.

September 25, 2012 | By The Associated Press | Signal AP


Obama at the UN, in shadow of campaign politics

NEW YORK (AP) - Campaign politics shadowing every word, President Barack Obama will step before the world and declare that anti-American rage and riots among Muslims abroad will never force the United States to backtrack on diplomacy.

September 25, 2012 | By The Associated Press | Signal AP


SF could OK among tiniest apartments in US

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - San Francisco may soon give new meaning to the word "downsizing." Supervisors are set to vote on Tuesday on a proposed change to the city's building code that would allow construction of among the tiniest apartments in the country. Under the plan, new apartments could be as small as 220 square feet (a little more than double the size of some prison cells), including a kitchen, bathroom and closet, the Los ...

September 24, 2012 | By Associated Press | Signal AP


FBI to investigate officer shooting double-amputee

HOUSTON (AP) - A caretaker at a group home for the mentally ill called police in the middle of the night because a one-armed, one-legged man in a wheelchair was angry and wouldn't calm down.

September 24, 2012 | By Associated Press | Signal AP


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US, NATO, mull Afghan troop strength after combat

BRUSSELS (AP) - Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and his NATO counterparts are considering leaving 8,000 to 12,000 troops in Afghanistan after 2014, but a dispute arose Friday between the U.S. and German defense officials over whether that contingent would be an international force or an American one.

February 22, 2013 | By Associated Press | Signal AP


Armstrong lawyers: Justice Dept joining fraud suit

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department has joined a lawsuit against disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong that alleges the former, seven-time Tour de France champion concealed his use of performance-enhancing drugs and defrauded his long-time sponsor, the U.S. Postal Service, Armstrong's lawyers said Friday.

February 22, 2013 | By The Associated Press | Signal AP


Maserati driver in Vegas shooting-crash was rapper

LAS VEGAS (AP) - Police searched Friday for a Range Rover with dark tinted windows and custom rims that set off a fiery crash on the Las Vegas Strip when someone in the luxury SUV opened fire on a Maserati driven by an aspiring rapper.

February 22, 2013 | By Associated Press | Signal AP


Prosecutor questions woman in Arizona murder case

PHOENIX (AP) - A woman charged in the stabbing and shooting death of her Arizona lover traded barbs with a prosecutor under a withering cross-examination as she struggled to explain why she can recall precise details of her life from years earlier, yet can't remember crucial aspects of the murder case against her.

February 22, 2013 | By Associated Press | Signal AP


Car bomb kills at least 53 in Syrian capital

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) - A car bomb exploded Thursday near Syria's ruling party headquarters in Damascus, killing at least 53 people and scattering mangled bodies among the blazing wreckage in one of the bloodiest days in the capital since the uprising began almost two years ago.

February 22, 2013 | By Associated Press | Signal AP


Haiti's 'Baby Doc' summoned to court after no-show

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - A Haitian judge on Thursday summoned Jean-Claude Duvalier to appear in court after the former dictator defied an order to attend a hearing to determine whether he should again face charges for human rights abuses committed during the nearly 15 years of his brutal regime.

February 22, 2013 | By Associated Press | Signal AP


Oscar guy MacFarlane aims to perk up stodgy awards

LOS ANGELES (AP) - You think the Academy Awards are boring? Try the nominations. They only last a few minutes, but it's generally a sleepy academy suit and a sleepy starlet droning a list of names at 5:30 in the morning.

February 22, 2013 | By Associated Press | Signal AP


Georgia plane aborted landing, hit utility pole

THOMSON, Ga. (AP) - A small private jet carrying a surgeon and members of his clinic staff aborted its landing at a Georgia airport before it hit a 60-foot utility pole and crashed in a flaming wreck, killing five people onboard and injuring two, federal authorities said Thursday.

February 22, 2013 | By Associated Press | Signal AP


Pistorius granted bail pending murder trial

PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) - In an agonizingly slow announcement, a magistrate allowed Oscar Pistorius to go free on bail Friday, nine days after the Paralympian was arrested in the Valentine's Day killing of his girlfriend.

February 22, 2013 | By Associated Press | Signal AP


Police: Hotel altercation sparked Vegas shooting

LAS VEGAS (AP) - Bullets were flying from a black Range Rover at a gray Maserati as the vehicles raced toward a red light on the Las Vegas Strip.

February 22, 2013 | By Associated Press | Signal AP


4 stabbed outside downtown LA nightspot

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Four young adults have been stabbed after a feud spilled out of a downtown Los Angeles nightspot.

February 22, 2013 | By Associated Press | Signal AP


More tests needed in LA hotel water tank death

LOS ANGELES (AP) - More testing must be done to determine the cause of death of a 21-year-old Canadian tourist whose body was found wedged in a water tank atop a downtown Los Angeles hotel, authorities said Thursday.

February 22, 2013 | By Associated Press | Signal AP


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