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  • VA rep promises better days ahead

    Human feces taint more than half of public swimming pools, a finding U.S. health officials are using to urge better personal hygiene as the summer months approach. ...

  • Kids describe horrifying moments as storm struck

    MOORE, Okla. – 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. But before all of the youngsters could get there, the tornado alarm sounded. The plan changed quickly. "All the teachers started screaming into the room and saying, ...

  • Benghazi suspects IDd by FBI no arrests

    WASHINGTON – The U.S. has identified five men who might be responsible for the attack on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, last year, and has enough evidence to justify seizing them by military force as suspected terrorists, officials say. But there isn’t enough proof to try them in a U.S. civilian court as the Obama administration prefers. The men remain at large while the FBI ...

  • Needles nurture ill turtles

    QUINCY, Mass. – Two endangered sea turtles that are shells of their former selves after getting stranded on Cape Cod during a cold spell are getting some help easing back into the wild – from an acupuncturist. Dexter and Fletcher Moon, juvenile Kemp’s Ridley sea turtles, remained calm as acupuncturist Claire McManus gently tapped more than a dozen needles into their grayish-green, ...

  • Landmark immigration bill moving to Senate

    WASHINGTON – A Senate committee approved a sweeping immigration reform bill Tuesday that would provide a path to citizenship for up to 11 million illegal immigrants, setting the stage for the full Senate to consider the landmark legislation next month. After five days of debate over dozen of amendments, the Judiciary Committee voted 13-5 in support of the bill, with three Republicans ...


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Movie Review

Eyes Wide Shut

"Eyes Wide Shut" has been with Stanley Kubrick for a long time. He first purchased the rights to the source material, Viennese author Arthur Schnitzler's 1926 novella "Traumnovelle" ("Dream Story"), back in 1970, when he first came up with the odd notion of making a hard-core blue movie with two Hollywood mega-stars. ...

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  • Iranian troops sent to back Syria in uprising

    MUSCAT, Oman – Iran has sent soldiers to Syria to fight alongside forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad and those of the Lebanon-based Hezbollah militia, a senior State Department official said Tuesday.An unknown number of Iranians are fighting inside Syria, the official said, citing accounts from opposition forces supported by Western and Arab governments. The official spoke on the ...

  • $450 million sought to run Guantanamo

    WASHINGTON – The Pentagon is asking Congress for more than $450 million for maintaining and upgrading the Guantanamo Bay prison that President Obama wants to close. New details on the administration’s budget request emerged Tuesday and underscored the contradiction of the president waging a political fight to shutter the prison while the military calculates the financial requirements to ...

  • Teens turn to Twitter avoid Facebook bother

    WASHINGTON – Twitter is booming as a social media destination for teenagers who complain about too many adults and too much drama on Facebook, according to a new study published Tuesday about online behavior. It said teens are sharing more personal information about themselves even as they try to protect their online reputations.Teens told researchers there were too many adults on Facebook ...

  • Arias asks jury for life backs off execution wish

    Jodi Arias points to her family as a reason to give her life in prison instead of the death penalty on Tuesday at Maricopa County Superior Court in ...

  • Lifeline files hit by data breach

    Tens of thousands of applicants to Lifeline, the federal program that subsidizes phone service for qualified low-income households, were exposed this spring to the risk of identity theft by the phone carriers that signed them up for the program.More than 170,000 records from two participating companies – TerraCom Inc. and its affiliate, YourTel America Inc. – were posted online, a ...

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