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• Silicon Valley shuttle drivers vote to unionize

  Shuttle drivers who ferry tech workers between Silicon Valley and San Francisco have voted for union representation. The San Francisco Chronicle ... 

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  Brazil arrests US sect leader wanted on sex charges

  Brazilian authorities said Saturday they arrested a self-professed minister put on a U.S. most-wanted list for allegedly molesting two girls in a ... 

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  Blind dog rescued after being lost for 2 weeks in the cold

  A blind dog who wandered away from her Ester, Alaska, home during a cold snap has been reunited with her owner. The 11-year-old Labrador retriever ... 

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  Tiny Missouri town mourns after gunman kills 7, then himself

  Residents of a small southern Missouri town struggled to come to grips with the knowledge that one of their own had killed seven people in a spasm of ... 

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  From Iraq to New York, a busy week for Islamic State group

  Little known to the wider world 18 months ago, the Islamic State extremist group has muscled its way into the international spotlight by carving out ... 

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  New Hampshire lake is Lower 48's only ice runway

  Winter on New Hampshire's Lake Winnipesaukee means ice fishing, hockey tournaments and, if the ice is strong enough, airplanes. After being grounded ... 

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  Wesleyan overdoses happened as school stepped up efforts

  As drug overdoses left two Wesleyan students fighting for their lives, witnesses helped investigators quickly identify the suspects: The drug-dealing ... 

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  Marathon bombing trial stays in Boston, federal panel says

  Publicity hasn't jeopardized Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's right to an impartial jury, a federal appeals panel says, and opening ... 

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  Mexican police capture top cartel capo 'La Tuta' Gomez

  Servando "La Tuta" Gomez, a former school teacher who became one of Mexico's most-wanted drug lords as head of the Knights Templar cartel, was ... 

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  Coroner: Carbon monoxide likely caused 2 teenagers' deaths

  Two teenage sisters died and two other children were hospitalized after a relative found all four unresponsive Friday from a suspected carbon monoxide ... 

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  Some California farmers to go without federal water

  The federal government said Friday it won't send any of its reservoir water to the Central Valley for the second straight year, forcing farmers in ... 

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  Head injury to suspect as child could be used by defense

  A 19-year-old man charged with murder in the killing of a Las Vegas mother in a neighborhood gunbattle suffered a fractured skull as an infant — an ... 

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  Notre Dame president credited for transforming school dies

  The Rev. Theodore Hesburgh transformed the University of Notre Dame into a school known almost as much for academics as for football, even if it meant ... 

• Miss America Organization president is stepping down

  The president of the Miss America Organization is stepping down after nearly two years at the helm. Sharon Pearce has served the group for the past ... 

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  Parents of slain journalist: Next 'Jihadi John' is on way

  The parents of an American journalist beheaded by the Islamic State group say they are surprised a college-educated, London-raised man is the masked ... 

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  Police: 7 fatally shot, gunman dead in southeastern Missouri

  Authorities say seven people were shot to death and one was wounded in attacks in a small southeastern Missouri town, and the suspected gunman was ... 

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  10 Things to Know for Today

  Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today: 1. MEXICAN DRUG LORD CAPTURED Servando "La ... 

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  Lawyer: 2nd autopsy in police shooting contradicts officials

  A lawyer for the family of an unarmed Mexican man killed by police in Washington state says independent autopsy results differ in at least two key ... 

• Cops: Man abandoned backhoe in big hole he dug in rural road

  New York State Police say they've charged a Rochester man with using excavating equipment to dig a 40-foot-long, 12-foot-deep hole in a rural road in ... 

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  Driver freed without charges in California train crash

  Federal investigators said a pickup truck driver who turned on to railroad tracks before a crash that derailed a California commuter train made a ... 

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  2 loose llamas lassoed after running amok near Phoenix

  Two quick-footed llamas dashed in and out of traffic in a Phoenix-area retirement enclave before they were captured by authorities, causing a stir in ... 

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  Lawyer: Second autopsy shows officers shot man from behind

  An independent autopsy of an unarmed Mexican man killed by police in Washington state shows he was shot as many as seven times — including twice from ... 

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  Black Madam: I've done thousands of buttocks injections

  A Gothic hip-hop artist who called herself "the Michelangelo of buttocks injections" testified at her murder trial that she got into body sculpting ... 

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  Medical pot proposal passes first test in conservative Utah

  A panel of Utah lawmakers gave initial approval Thursday to a proposal that would allow residents of the conservative state who have chronic and ... 

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  Prosecutor: Mom craved attention, poisoned child with salt

  A woman accused of force feeding her 5-year-old son salt through a stomach tube reveled in the attention that a sickly child brought her, a prosecutor ...