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Treasury officials told of IRS probe in June 2012

Updated: May 18, 2013 12:06am

By 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...

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Updated: May 18, 2013 12:06am

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Abortion doctor guilty in three babies’ deaths

Updated: May 14, 2013 12:05am

By MARYCLAIRE DALE

Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA — An abortion doctor was convicted Monday of first-degree murder and could face execution in the deaths of three babies who were...

Roller coaster to be removed from ocean in NJ

Updated: May 14, 2013 12:05am

By WAYNE PARRY

Associated Press

SEASIDE HEIGHTS, N.J. — This time next week, perhaps the most famous symbol of Superstorm Sandy’s devastation at the Jersey shore will be gone.

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<p>Associated Press</p><p>New Orleans Police Superintendent Ronal Serpas discusses the Mother’s Day shooting during a news conference in front of police headquarters in New Orleans on Monday.</p>

Police: Progress in Mother’s Day shooting probe

Updated: May 14, 2013 12:05am

By CHEVEL JOHNSON

Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS — Police identified a 19-year-old man as a suspect in the shooting of nearly 20 people during a Mother’s Day parade in New Orleans,...

Justice Department obtains AP phone records in probe

Updated: May 14, 2013 12:05am

By MARK SHERMAN

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for the Associated Press in what the...

IRS official didn’t reveal targeting

Updated: May 14, 2013 12:05am

By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Acting Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Steven T. Miller repeatedly failed to tell Congress that tea party groups were being...

Obama slams GOP focus on Benghazi as politics

Updated: May 14, 2013 12:05am

By DONNA CASSATA

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — House Republicans pushed ahead Monday with their investigation of the deadly assault on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya,...

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Va. woman has no regrets over role in burial

Updated: May 12, 2013 12:05am

By BOB LEWIS and LARRY O’DELL

Associated Press

DOSWELL, Va. — The Virginia woman whose actions led to Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev being buried about 30 miles...

N. Calif. officers seek triple homicide suspect

Updated: May 12, 2013 12:06am

PETROLIA, Calif. (AP) — SWAT teams from three counties and a team from the California Department of Corrections, as well as federal law enforcement officials and local police have joined the hunt...

Spacewalking repair halts station leak — for now

Updated: May 12, 2013 12:06am

By MARCIA DUNN

Associated Press

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronauts making a rare, hastily planned spacewalk replaced a pump outside the International Space Station on Saturday in hopes...

NASA: Spacewalk planned to fix space station leak

Updated: May 11, 2013 12:06am

WASHINGTON (AP) — Two astronauts will make a hastily planned spacewalk Saturday to try to fix an ammonia leak in the power system of the International Space Station.

The leak in a cooling...