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Water pollution by drilling confirmed

States’ data note problems with wells

DATE: Jan 4, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Library offers glimpse of bookless future

Texas facility is first in country to go all digital

DATE: Jan 4, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Election politics dominates Congress

WASHINGTON – Congress returns to work today with election-year politics certain to shape an already-limited agenda. Republicans intend to focus on every facet of President Barack ...

DATE: Jan 4, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Big money in social-media clicks

SAN JOSE, Calif. – Celebrities, businesses and even the U.S. State Department have bought bogus Facebook likes, Twitter followers or YouTube viewers from offshore “click farms,” where worker...

DATE: Jan 4, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Midwest freeze may break records

Meteorologist: Blame dramatic winter weather on a ‘polar vortex’

DATE: Jan 4, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Groomers are dazzling up dogs with bling, bows

LOS ANGELES – Sugarplum went into the salon as a reddish-blonde dachshund mix and came out with pink and green ears, a rainbow tail and a bow in her fur. “It’s like having a littl...

DATE: Jan 4, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation Briefs

New York Plane makes emergency landing on NYC highway NEW YORK – A small plane made an emergency landing Saturday on an interstate highway in New York City, startling d...

DATE: Jan 4, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Gloomy Americans foresee downhill slide to 2050

WASHINGTON – Ask people to imagine American life in 2050, and you’ll get some dreary visions. Whether they foresee runaway technology or runaway government, rampant poverty or v...

DATE: Jan 4, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

A compliment or a curse?

‘Putin Games’ draws assorted criticism, praise

DATE: Jan 4, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Cruz ‘soon’ to renounce citizenship

AUSTIN, Texas – Canada-born U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz has yet to renounce his birth country’s citizenship as promised – but a spokeswoman said Saturday the tea-party darling plans to have that fini...

DATE: Jan 4, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Marking 50 years of anti-smoking

1964 report was catalyst to change

DATE: Jan 4, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

World Briefs

Pope to nuns: Pick up the phone when I call VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis has made another one of his cold calls to wish a group of nuns in a Spanish convent happy New Year. Only he...

DATE: Jan 4, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World