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  • Baked Alaska Unusual heat wave hits 49th state

    ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- A heat wave hitting Alaska doesn't rival the blazing heat of Phoenix or Las Vegas, but to residents of the 49th state, the weather feels like a stifling oven - or a tropical paradise.With temperatures topping 80 degrees in Anchorage, and higher in other parts of the state, people have been sweltering in a place where few homes have air conditioning.The official ...

  • Teacher training gets poor marks

    WASHINGTON – The vast majority of the 1,430 education programs that prepare the nation’s K-12 teachers are mediocre, according to a first-ever rating that immediately touched off a firestorm.Released Tuesday by the National Council on Teacher Quality, a Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group, the ratings are part of a $5 million project funded by major U.S. foundations.Education ...

  • Shovels turn at ex-mobsters digs

    NEW YORK – FBI agents with jackhammers and shovels were digging Tuesday under a New York City house once occupied by a famed gangster who inspired Robert De Niro’s character in the movie “Goodfellas.” James Burke, the late Lucchese crime family associate, is said to have buried victims in familiar places – including under the nearby saloon he ran. On Monday, FBI investigators ...

  • G-8 backs Syrian talks Assad exit not in declaration

    After more than a decade of war in Afghanistan, and nearly three years of sputtering and unsuccessful attempts at talks, the United States will open formal negotiations with the Taliban this week aimed at ending insurgent attacks, officials ...

  • US Taliban to launch talks

    WASHINGTON – After more than a decade of war in Afghanistan, and nearly three years of sputtering and unsuccessful attempts at talks, the United States will open formal negotiations with the Taliban this week aimed at ending insurgent attacks, officials said Tuesday. The new dialogue, with a Taliban delegation that U.S. officials said has been authorized by Taliban leader Mohammad Omar, ...


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Movie Review

Snatch

In Snatch, British writer/director Guy Ritchie follows up his successful independent crime caper Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) with more of the same: a story of comedic criminals who get in way over their heads brought to bombastic life with fast-cut editing, a funky soundtrack, and relentless energy. While Ritchie had worked with mostly unknowns in his debut feature, ... ...

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  • Scientists seek bomb that doesnt blow up

    The U.S. government’s sweeping surveillance programs have disrupted more than 50 terrorist plots in the United States and abroad, including a plan to bomb the New York Stock Exchange, senior government officials testified ...

  • 40 potential jurors picked in Zimmerman trial

    George Zimmerman, left, attorney Don West, center, and jury consultant Robert Hirschhorn leave their table during a recess Tuesday of Zimmerman’s trial in Seminole Circuit Court in Sanford, ...

  • Analysts Immigration bill would save money

    The Republican-led House on Tuesday passed a far-reaching anti-abortion bill that conservatives saw as a milestone in their 40-year campaign against legalized abortion and Democrats characterized as yet another example of the GOP war on ...

  • Boy 13 charged in half-sisters death

    NEW ORLEANS – A 13-year-old boy from a New Orleans suburb was charged with second-degree murder in the death of his 5-year-old half-sister after investigators said he told them he repeatedly struck her with wrestling moves imitated from TV.“The 13-year-old reported he started to wrestle with the victim and practiced ‘WWE’ style wrestling moves on the 5-year-old,” Col. John Fortunato of ...

  • House passes doomed abortion bill

    WASHINGTON – The Republican-led House on Tuesday passed a far-reaching anti-abortion bill that conservatives saw as a milestone in their 40-year campaign against legalized abortion and Democrats characterized as yet another example of the GOP war on women. The legislation, sparked by the murder conviction of a Philadelphia late-term abortion provider, would restrict almost all abortions to ...

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