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Pilots’ focus is under scrutiny

Automated flight controls in airline cockpits have become so reliable that safety experts say pilots could become inattentive to rare malfunctions that can lead to crashes. Proble...

’13 calmest for tornadoes since 2002

The United States is seeing its quietest year for tornadoes in more than a decade. Of course, for the victims of the savage EF-5 tornado that blasted Moore, Okla., in May, the sea...

More armed security at schools after Newtown

MIAMI – In the Fort Lauderdale suburb of Pembroke Pines, students returning to school this year are being greeted not only by their teachers and principal. They’re also meeting the armed sch...

Colo. adds alternate drug for executions

DENVER – Colorado’s instructions for putting prisoners to death by lethal injection have been revised to include an alternate drug, underscoring problems states face in carrying out executio...

New mammal species found

WASHINGTON – Imagine a mini-raccoon with a teddy bear face that is so cute it’s hard to resist, let alone overlook. But somehow science did – until now. Researchers have announced...

AAA: Public less worried about dangerous driving

WASHINGTON – Americans are much less worried about drunken, drowsy and aggressive driving than they were four years ago, even though traffic deaths have begun to edge back up, according to a...

Possible ship wreckage to receive a CT scan

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. – The hunt for the Griffin, a ship commanded by legendary French explorer La Salle, has taken an unlikely detour from northern Lake Michigan to a small-town hospital, wh...

World Briefs

Egypt shortens curfew after lull in unrest CAIRO – Egypt’s government has shortened a widely-imposed evening curfew by two hours starting Saturday, responding to citizens’ demands...

UN forces join Congo soldiers on front line

GOMA, Congo – U.N. forces joined Congolese soldiers on the front line Saturday where they fought rebels in the country’s volatile east for hours, officials said, as border tensions escalated...

Marching for King: ‘Task is not done’

50 years later, thousands commemorate in Washington, D.C.

Yosemite tries to protect sequoias from fire

GROVELAND, Calif. – As a wildfire rages along the remote northwest edge of Yosemite National Park, officials cleared brush and set sprinklers to protect two groves of giant sequoias. ...

Syria ‘chemical’ attack kills 355

Aid group says it tallied deaths
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