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Official: Broken rail eyed in Conn. train crash
Nation Comments Updated: May 19, 2013 12:06amOfficial: Broken rail eyed in Conn. train crash
FAIRFIELD, Conn. (AP) — Officials investigating a train collision in Connecticut have ruled out foul play and are studying a rail fracture...
FBI searches apartment in ricin letter case
Nation Comments Updated: May 19, 2013 12:06amFBI searches apartment in ricin letter case
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Authorities in hazardous materials suits searched a downtown Spokane apartment Saturday, investigating the recent discovery...
Timber country ponders a future with fewer logs
Nation Comments Updated: May 19, 2013 12:06amBy JEFF BARNARD
Associated Press
O’BRIEN, Ore. — Jennifer Phillippi’s grandparents started producing lumber in this corner of Oregon timber country in 1922, when a man could set up a...
Last-minute fortune seekers buy Powerball tickets
Nation Comments Updated: May 19, 2013 12:06amLast-minute fortune seekers buy Powerball tickets
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — It’s all about the odds.
With the majority of possible combinations of Powerball numbers in play, someone is...
Authorities: Hofstra student was killed by police
Nation Comments Updated: May 19, 2013 12:06amAuthorities: Hofstra student was killed by police
MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say a police officer’s bullet killed a New York college student during the response to a home invasion at...
Treasury officials told of IRS probe in June 2012
Nation Comments Updated: May 18, 2013 12:06amBy STEPHEN OHLEMACHER
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Senior Treasury officials were made aware in June 2012 that investigators were looking into complaints from tea party groups that...
Congress gets mixed advice on regulating drones
Nation Comments Updated: May 18, 2013 12:06amBy HENRY C. JACKSON
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The growing use of unmanned surveillance “eyes in the sky” aircraft raises a thicket of privacy concerns, but Congress is getting...
Benghazi probe co-chair subpoenaed by House panel
Nation Comments Updated: May 18, 2013 12:06amBy MATTHEW LEE
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The head of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has subpoenaed the co-chairman of the independent review board that...
Nation roundup for May 19
Nation Comments Updated: May 18, 2013 12:06amHagel orders review of sex-abuse prevention
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Friday ordered the military to recertify all 25,000 people involved in programs designed to...
Odds and ends for May 19
Nation Comments Updated: May 18, 2013 12:06amTravis sues to block DWI patrol car video release
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Country music star Randy Travis has filed a lawsuit to prevent the release of patrol car video of his 2012 drunken-...









