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Chief of staff: Bush getting excellent treatment
Former President George H.W. Bush, who has been hospitalized for more than a month, is getting excellent medical treatment and would advise people to ...
Texas officer who ended '66 UT sniper rampage dies
The Austin police officer who helped stop Charles Whitman's 1966 sniper rampage from atop the University of Texas tower has died. Houston McCoy fired ...
Emails show OSU officials fretted over coverage
Oklahoma State University officials fretted about the school's public image as details emerged about the sexual assaults of several male students on ...
Gun group offers training for Utah teachers
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.
Newtown trying to give kids a sense of normalcy
The children at the Sandy Hook Elementary school won't be returning to classes for another week, but officials from the town, school district and ...
Michigan I-96 shooting suspect arraigned by video
A man suspected in a shooting spree that targeted motorists along the Interstate 96 corridor in four southeast Michigan counties pleaded not guilty ...
Police: Pa. man suffocated girlfriend after crash
A man suffocated his 17-year-old girlfriend by sitting on her head after he intentionally drove into a guardrail at about 100 miles per hour in the ...
AP IMPACT: Ordinary folks losing faith in stocks
Andrew Neitlich is the last person you'd expect to be rattled by the stock market. He once worked as a financial analyst picking stocks for a mutual ...
Good Samaritan finds ring on snowy Calif. highway
Finding a lost wedding ring along a snowy highway is hard enough. But a Good Samaritan in Northern California also has to track down the man it ...
Shipping lanes off Calif tweaked to protect whales
Ship traffic off the California coast will be re-routed under new rules designed to protect slow-moving endangered whales from ship collisions.
Volunteers toughen up bobcat kitten who's too nice
A Northern California animal rescue group is trying to help an orphaned bobcat kitten with a problem: She's too nice. The friendly baby bobcat was ...
LA gun buyback collects more than 2,000 weapons
A one-day gun buyback program in Los Angeles brought in 2,037 firearms. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's office says the weapons collected Wednesday ...
4 charged in synthetic drug overdoses in ND, Minn.
Federal prosecutors in North Dakota have charged four men with conspiring to import and sell controlled substances used to make synthetic ...
College student's turtle project takes dark twist
Clemson University student Nathan Weaver set out to determine how to help turtles cross the road. He ended up getting a glimpse into the dark souls ...
Autopsy: NY gunman shot self, not hit by police
The gunman who lured two firefighters to their deaths died of a self-inflicted shot to the head and wasn't hit by return fire from a police officer, ...
Man gets DUI after driving on AA co-founder's lawn
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 ...
NY charity finds shelter for homeless in Hamptons
It's not so easy to spot the homeless in the Hamptons in the summer, when celebrity A-listers fly in by helicopter and Wall Street whizzes drive out ...
Minn. soda shop rebuked for stocking candy smokes
Owners of an old-school soda shop in St. Paul, Minn., are being warned to kick the habit and stop stocking novelty candy cigarettes. City inspectors ...
Missing girl's father removed from Vegas courtroom
An outburst by the father of a missing 10-year-old girl marred the first court hearing for a casino card dealer accused of using razor blades to slash ...
Lion habitat features big cats that worked at MGM
Dozens of lions that used to entertain tourists at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas now have a new day job. The Las Vegas Sun reports (http://bit.
NY newspaper's handgun permit map draws criticism
A newspaper's publication of the names and addresses of handgun permit holders in two New York counties has sparked online discussions — and a healthy ...
Settlement reached in Toyota acceleration cases
Toyota Motor Corp. said Wednesday it has reached a settlement worth more than $1 billion in a case involving unintended acceleration problems in its ...
Oklahoma City house fire kills mother, 4 children
A fire that ripped through a home in Oklahoma City before dawn Wednesday killed a woman and her four children and left one man in critical condition ...
2 NY firefighters who survived gun ambush thankful
Two firefighters wounded by a gunman who set his upstate New York house ablaze and killed two of their colleagues in an ambush with weapons he wasn't ...