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US jobless aid applications fall to 5-year low

WASHINGTON (AP) - The average number of people seeking U.S. unemployment benefits over the past month fell to the lowest level since March 2008, a sign that the job market is healing.

December 27, 2012 | By Associated Press | Signal AP


Chevron's CEO: Affordable energy is crucial

NEW YORK (AP) - Chevron CEO John Watson notices something important as he visits his company's operations around the globe: Governments everywhere find high energy prices much scarier than the threat of global warming.

December 27, 2012 | By Associated Press | Signal AP


Gun group offers training for Utah teachers

WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah (AP) - Jessica Fiveash sees nothing wrong with arming teachers. She's one herself, and learned Thursday how to safely use her 9 mm Ruger with a laser sight.

December 27, 2012 | By Associated Press | Signal AP


Retired Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf dies

WASHINGTON (AP) - Retired Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, who topped an illustrious military career by commanding the U.S.-led international coalition that drove Saddam Hussein's forces out of Kuwait in 1991 but kept a low public profile in controversies over the second Gulf War against Iraq, died Thursday. He was 78.

December 27, 2012 | By Associated Press | Signal AP


US jobless aid applications fall to 5-year low

WASHINGTON (AP) - The average number of people seeking U.S. unemployment benefits over the past month fell to the lowest level since March 2008, a sign that the job market is healing.

December 27, 2012 | By The Associated Press | Signal AP


It's husband No. 3 for actress Kate Winslet

NEW YORK (AP) - Kate Winslet has tied the knot again. The Oscar-winning actress wed Ned Rocknroll in New York earlier this month. The private ceremony was attended by Winslet's two children as well as a few friends and family members, her representative said Thursday. It is the third marriage for the 37-year-old Winslet. She was previously married to film directors Jim Threapleton and Sam Mendes. The 34-year-old Rocknroll, who was born Abel Smith, ...

December 27, 2012 | By The Associated Press | Signal AP


'Rescue Me' singer Fontella Bass dies

ST. LOUIS (AP) - Fontella Bass, a St. Louis-born soul singer who hit the top of the R&B charts with "Rescue Me" in 1965, has died. She was 72.

December 27, 2012 | By The Associated Press | Signal AP


Bush family quiet about ex-president's condition

HOUSTON (AP) - Former President George H.W. Bush's family sought privacy and provided no new details Thursday about his medical condition, a day after his spokesman said he's in intensive care after being hospitalized for treatment of a bronchitis-related cough.

December 27, 2012 | By The Associated Press | Signal AP


Woman set on fire in Van Nuys as she sleeps on bench

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Los Angeles police have identified a man arrested for allegedly setting a 67-year-old woman on fire as she was sleeping on a bus bench.

December 27, 2012 | The Associated Press | Signal AP


Ordinary folks losing faith in stocks

NEW YORK (AP) - Andrew Neitlich is the last person you'd expect to be rattled by the stock market.

December 27, 2012 | The Associated Press | Signal AP


EPA Administrator Jackson announces resignation

WASHINGTON (AP) - EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, the Obama administration's chief environmental watchdog, is stepping down after nearly four years marked by high-profile brawls over global warming pollution, the Keystone XL oil pipeline, new controls on coal-fired plants and several other hot-button issues that affect the nation's economy and people's health.

December 27, 2012 | The Associated Press | Signal AP


The orphaned bobcat who's too nice

PLACERVILLE, Calif. (AP) - A Northern California animal rescue group is trying to help an orphaned bobcat kitten with a problem: She's too nice.

December 27, 2012 | By Associated Press | Signal AP


Apple CEO gets modest pay this year

NEW YORK (AP) - Apple CEO Tim Cook got $4.2 million in pay for the latest fiscal year, a modest sum compared with last year, when the company's board set him up with stock now worth $510 million for taking the reins in 2011.

December 27, 2012 | By Associated Press | Signal AP


Powerful storm heads into Northeast

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - A powerful winter storm blamed for 15 deaths in other parts of the country is bringing rain to southern New England and snow farther north, but the region has been largely spared the pounding that other states took.

December 27, 2012 | By Associated Press | Signal AP


Man gets DUI after driving onto lawn of AA co-founder

DORSET, Vt. (AP) - Vermont State Police say a man faces a drunken driving charge after driving onto the lawn of a historic home once owned by the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous.

December 27, 2012 | By Associated Press | Signal AP


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Search for Okla. tornado survivors nearly complete

MOORE, Okla. (AP) - Helmeted rescue workers raced Tuesday to complete the search for survivors and the dead in the Oklahoma City suburb where a mammoth tornado destroyed countless homes, cleared lots down to bare red earth and claimed 24 lives, including those of nine children.

May 22, 2013 | Associated Press | Signal AP


IRS official to take the 5th at House hearing

WASHINGTON (AP) - Summoned by Congress, a key figure in the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups plans to invoke her constitutional right against self-incrimination and decline to testify at a congressional hearing on Wednesday.

May 21, 2013 | Associated Press | Signal AP


Man found dead from apparent fall at UCLA

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Officials at the University of California, Los Angeles say a man was found dead on campus after an apparent fall from a building.

May 21, 2013 | By Associated Press | Signal AP


Senate panel OKs sweeping immigration bill

WASHINGTON (AP) - Far-reaching legislation that grants a chance at citizenship to millions of immigrants living illegally in the United States cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee on a solid bipartisan vote Tuesday night after supporters somberly sidestepped a controversy over the rights of gay spouses.

May 21, 2013 | By Associated Press | Signal AP


Feds take over Calif. high-risk insurance program

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - About 17,000 Californians with serious medical problems will be moved from a state-run stopgap health insurance program to a federal plan starting in July, ensuring they will have no break in medical coverage until the national health care reforms kick in next year, state officials announced this week.

May 21, 2013 | Associated Press | Signal AP


Calif. sends rescue workers to Okla. tornado site

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California is sending six specially trained urban search-and-rescue workers to Oklahoma to assist recovery efforts after Monday's tornado.

May 21, 2013 | Associated Press | Signal AP


Point Mugu park reopening many areas after fire

CALABASAS, Calif. (AP) - Many areas of sprawling Point Mugu State Park that have been off-limits since this month's big wildfire on the outskirts of Camarillo and Thousand Oaks will reopen in time for the Memorial Day weekend.

May 21, 2013 | Associated Press | Signal AP


Teachers credited with saving students in Okla.

MOORE, Okla. (AP) - The principal's voice came on over the intercom at Plaza Towers Elementary School: A severe storm was approaching and students were to go to the cafeteria and wait for their parents to pick them up.

May 21, 2013 | Associated Press | Signal AP


Senate votes to make small cut to food stamps

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate voted Tuesday to keep a $400 million annual cut - or roughly a half of 1 percent - to the food stamp program as part of a major five-year farm bill.

May 21, 2013 | Associated Press | Signal AP


Dog day afternoon: dress your pooch for the beach

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Here's a rule that only applies to dog beaches: they are all clothing optional.

May 21, 2013 | Associated Press | Signal AP


Arias asks for life in prison

PHOENIX (AP) - Jodi Arias begged jurors Tuesday to give her life in prison, saying she "lacked perspective" when she told a local reporter in an interview that she preferred execution to spending the rest of her days in jail.

May 21, 2013 | By Associated Press | Signal AP


Photo gallery from Okla. tornado

These are just a few of the images from the Oklahoma City area which was devastated Monday by a huge tornado.

May 21, 2013 | By Associated Press | Signal AP


Power of Okla. tornado dwarfs Hiroshima bomb

WASHINGTON (AP) - Wind, humidity and rainfall combined precisely to create the massive killer tornado in Moore, Okla. And when they did, the awesome amount of energy released over that city dwarfed the power of the atomic bomb that leveled Hiroshima.

May 21, 2013 | By Associated Press | Signal AP


AP photographer sees kids pulled from rubble

Editor's Note: Oklahoma City-based AP photographer Sue Ogrocki was at the elementary school destroyed by a tornado and saw rescuers pulling children out of the rubble. This is her account of what she witnessed.

May 21, 2013 | By Associated Press | Signal AP


Customs seizes elephant meat, dead primate in LA

LOS ANGELES (AP) - U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in Los Angeles have made some unusual seizures, including elephant meat, a dead primate and hundreds of handbags made from the skin of snakes, lizards and crocodiles.

May 21, 2013 | Associated Press | Signal AP


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