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Mangled metal, victims’ screams mark Indiana pileup

MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. – Cars were mangled, and some were burned despite the blowing snow. Other vehicles were crushed between jackknifed semi-tractors, so entwined that it was difficult to te...

Ukraine clashes resume, fires light up night sky

KIEV, Ukraine – As riots spread from Ukraine’s embattled capital to nearly half of the country, President Viktor Yanukovych promised Friday to reshuffle his government and make other concess...

Union membership holds steady at 11.3 percent

WASHINGTON – The nation’s union membership held steady at 11.3 percent last year, but losses among state and government workers suggest an ominous trend for the future of organized labor. ...

Natural gas soars as cold grips homes, drillers

NEW YORK – The frigid winter of 2014 is setting the price of natural gas on fire. Friday, the price in the futures market soared past $5 per 1,000 cubic feet, up 9 percent for th...

Internet community helps crack grandma’s code

MINNEAPOLIS – When a brain tumor took away Dorothy Holm’s ability to speak, she picked up index cards and began filling them, edge to edge, with seemingly random, indecipherable sequences of...

Study: New Madrid fault zone alive, active

LOS ANGELES – The New Madrid fault zone in the nation’s midsection is active and could spawn future large earthquakes, scientists reported Thursday. It’s “not dead yet,” said U.S....

Norway’s curlers get funky

So what will be the must-see moments at the Sochi Olympics? How about snowboard star Shaun White performing his latest trick – the frontside double-cork 1440? Or Evgeny Plushenko’...

Bombings rock Egyptian capital, killing 6 people

CAIRO – A string of four bombings hit around Cairo on Friday, including a car blast that ripped through the Egyptian capital’s main security headquarters and wrecked a nearby museum of Islam...

Former Virginia Gov. McDonnell, wife plead not guilty

RICHMOND, Va. – Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and his wife pleaded not guilty Friday to federal charges that they traded their influence for tens of thousands of dollars in gifts and l...

Opportunity still roving on Mars after a decade

Sure, it has some wear and tear. One of its six wheels and two instruments stopped working long ago. It has an arthritic joint. Its flash memory occasionally suffers a senior moment. ...

Poll: Uninsured rate among adults drops

WASHINGTON – It may just be the start of a new trend. The uninsured rate dropped modestly this month as expanded coverage rolled out under President Barack Obama’s health-care law, a major s...

Hagel ordering full review of nuclear force

WASHINGTON – With public trust and safety at stake, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel ordered immediate actions Thursday to define the depth of trouble inside the nation’s nuclear force, which h...
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