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Questionable design blamed for health website woes

Associated Press WASHINGTON – A decision to require that consumers create online accounts before they can browse available health plans under President Barack Obama’s overhaul app...

DATE: Oct 8, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

3 seek to overturn convictions

ALBANY, N.Y. – Three people convicted of murder in deadly crashes urged New York’s highest court Tuesday to throw out their convictions, arguing they were too intoxicated to know the threat...

DATE: Oct 8, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation Briefs

Police find no motive in D.C. chase case WASHINGTON – Police found no weapon or apparent evidence of motive while searching the car of a woman who was fatally shot by police afte...

DATE: Oct 8, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

General: Brotherhood ‘arrogant’

CAIRO – Egypt’s powerful army chief described the Muslim Brotherhood as “arrogant and tyrannical” while deposed Islamist President Mohammed Morsi was in power, saying in an interview publish...

DATE: Oct 8, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

World Briefs

Mexican police held in kidnapping case MEXICO CITY – Mexican authorities announced Tuesday the arrest of 13 federal police officers who allegedly belonged to a kidnap and murde...

DATE: Oct 8, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Briton, Belgian win Nobel

STOCKHOLM – Nearly 50 years after they came up with the theory, but little more than a year since the world’s biggest atom smasher delivered the proof, Britain’s Peter Higgs and Belgian coll...

DATE: Oct 8, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Hints of compromise on budget emerge

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner offered hints of possible compromise but also traded heated rhetoric Tuesday, a frustratingly inconclusive combination that...

DATE: Oct 8, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Missing in Rio on the rise; Brazil police accused

RIO DE JANEIRO – Anderson de Souza turned back after bounding down a dark maze of passageways in Rio de Janeiro’s sprawling Rocinha slum, incandescent light illuminating his face. ...

DATE: Oct 7, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

U.N. and chemical watchdog to destroy Syrian weapons

UNITED NATIONS – The U.N. secretary-general recommended Monday that approximately 100 people from the United Nations and the world’s chemical weapons watchdog agency be part of an unpreceden...

DATE: Oct 7, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Early snow kills thousands of cattle in South Dakota

PIERRE, S.D. – A record-breaking storm that dumped 4 feet of snow in parts of western South Dakota left ranchers dealing with heavy losses, in some cases perhaps up to half their herds, as ...

DATE: Oct 7, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

SEAL attack target behind Kenya plots

NAIROBI, Kenya – The man U.S. Navy SEALs tried to take down in Somalia over the weekend was a Kenyan who had plotted to attack his country’s parliament building and the United Nations headqu...

DATE: Oct 7, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation Briefs

Accident damages experimental airship TUSTIN, Calif. – A $35 million lighter-than-air dirigible was damaged and leaked helium Monday after part of a hangar roof collapsed at a fo...

DATE: Oct 7, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World