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World Briefs

Egypt: Islamists want Morsi to return CAIRO – Islamist lawmakers in Egypt’s disbanded upper house of parliament demanded Saturday the army reinstate ousted President Mohammed Mors...

Official: 7 UN staff murdered in Sudan attack

CAIRO – Gunmen ambushed a United Nations peacekeeping team Saturday in Sudan’s western region of Darfur, killing seven and wounding another 17 in the deadliest ever single attack on the inte...

Islamic extremist supports attacks on Nigerian schools

LAGOS, Nigeria – Shaking a finger while cradling an assault rifle, the bearded leader of Nigeria’s extremist Islamic sect threatens to burn down more schools and kill teachers. But he denies...

Snowden wants asylum in Russia

Leaker needs help getting to Latin America

Wedding ring found amid fire ruins

Amid the devastation of one of the worst wildfires in U.S. history that took the lives of 19 firefighters and destroyed dozens of homes, Larry and Patti McCracken experienced a tiny miracle....

Hundreds of new charges filed in Ohio kidnap case

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Month after month, year after year, the decade-long ordeal of three Cleveland women takes shape in the charges against the man accused of imprisoning them: August 2002, kidn...

Penn State’s board authorizes Sandusky settlements

UNIONTOWN, Pa. – Penn State University has reached tentative settlements with several men who claim to have been sexually abused by former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, the school...

Court maintains ‘irresistible employee’ lawfully fired

DES MOINES, Iowa – Iowa Supreme Court justices on Friday ruled again that a Webster County dentist did not discriminate against Melissa Nelson when he fired her out of fear that her good loo...

Texas Dems question abortion restrictions

AUSTIN, Texas – Texas Republicans on Friday defended a sweeping abortion proposal against Democratic attempts to show the tough restrictions were not only unnecessary, but also unconstitutio...

Nation/World Briefs

Jury starts deliberating in Zimmerman trial SANFORD, Fla. – With police and civic leaders urging calm, a jury began deliberating George Zimmerman’s fate Friday after hearing dueli...